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BEACON Researchers at Work: Experimental co-evolution in a virus and its host
A bonus Wednesday blog post! Today’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Justin Meyer. For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by the natural world. Whether it is the chameleon with its … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Lessons in bacterial evolvability from eventual winners
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin faculty member Jeffrey Barrick. For a long time, I thought that I’d become a synthetic organic chemist. Synthesizing intricate molecules would be a natural next … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Survival of the weakest – when doing poorly does best
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Joshua Nahum. “Survival of the fittest” is a phrase coined by Herbert Spencer upon his reading of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species to describe the … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Measuring fitness in the Long Term Evolution Experiment
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by Michigan State University graduate student Mike Wiser. If there’s one thing you can really depend on about life, it’s that it’s constantly changing. Many of us learned in our biology classes … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Colicin and Immunity Binding: A Love Story.
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Carrie Glenney. Proteins are the workhorses of life and they play an essential role in just about every biological function, from DNA replication to the immune … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Mutational predictability and robustness of genetic circuits
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington postdoc Sean Sleight. Synthetic biology is a relatively new field that uses engineering principles to design and build novel biological functions and systems. In 2000, Michael Elowitz and … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Ecology of an evolving bacterium
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Caroline Turner. Every day, human activities release a wide variety of chemical compounds into the environment, from fertilizers and pesticides to pharmaceuticals and industrial waste. Many of … Continue reading