Tag Archives: experimental evolution

BEACON Researchers at Work: The not-so-inscrutable HIV

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU postdoc Aditi Gupta. It all started in 1981. A few patients suffering from unusual opportunistic infections, that immune system normally easily takes care of, walked into doctors’ offices and nobody … Continue reading →

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Rich Lenski explains the Long Term Evolution Experiment [VIDEO]

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

In episode 61 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Vancouver, Canada on February 17th, 2012, Dr. Stan Maloy talks with BEACON’s Richard Lenski Ph.D., Hannah Professor of Microbial Ecology, Michigan State … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: What Makes an Attenuated Virus?

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Evin Hildebrandt. While people are often all too familiar with those nasty virulent viruses that cause disease, attenuated viruses do not seem to be as well known … Continue reading →

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BEACON scientists show how new viruses can evolve and become deadly

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

In the current issue of Science, researchers at Michigan State University demonstrate how a new virus evolves, which sheds light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. The scientists showed for the first time how … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Experimenting with predation

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Michael DeNieu.  The Dworkin lab is like a certain popular energy drink…it gives you wings. There’s a wide range of topics ongoing in the lab spanning functional … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Effects of rapid environmental change on evolution

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington postdoc Jenna Gallie. Life has existed on Earth for nearly four billion years. Given that organisms have been evolving continuously, why are they still not perfectly adapted … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Making synthetic viruses to study evolution

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Martina Ederer. After working on many different projects in a number of different labs, I always seem to come back to the study of evolution. Hence, … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Experimental co-evolution in a virus and its host

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

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 →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Spatial patterning in microbial communities

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s blog post is by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center postdoc Babak Momeni. Synthetic communities may help us understand the biology of natural microbial communities. Microbial communities in nature are abundant, with amazing diversity and huge impact on life … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Effects of rising temperatures on marine phytoplankton

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Mridul Thomas. Every day, a staggering quantity of carbon is drawn out of the atmosphere into the oceans as a result of the silent actions of massive numbers … Continue reading →

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