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3rd Annual Big Data in Biology Summer School
This post is by UT Austin graduate student Rayna Harris The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at The University of Texas at Austin is proud to host the 3rd Annual Big Data in Biology Summer School May 23–26, 2016. The 2016 … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Bioinformatics tools
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Ilya Zhbannikov. I graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University, Russia) with a Masters Degree in Information Systems in 2009. After a year … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The páramos – understanding a hyperdiverse ecosystem one genus at a time.
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Idaho graduate student Simon Uribe-Convers. I am always amazed by the huge diversity around us. Taking it for granted, it seems humans only remember the world’s diversity when watching a … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Testing Phylogenetic Inference with Experimental Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Cory Kohn. Skepticism. This is generally an important characteristic of scientists. Why would an attitude that is to be avoided in polite conversation act as a useful, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Phylotastic!
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Emily Jane McTavish. In early June several BEACONites participated in a hackathon at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), in Durham, NC. I … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Investigating the dynamics of diversification in chipmunks
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Idaho graduate student Brice Sarver. Speciation, the set of processes through which new species arise, is one of the central areas of biological study. It is easy, relatively speaking, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Hemichordate Global Biodiversity and Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington postdoc Charlotte Konikoff. Research in the Swalla lab broadly focuses on elucidating chordate origins and evolution. If you are reading this, you are a chordate. More specifically, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Hybrid history of North American cattle
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Emily Jane McTavish. In the ranch lands of Texas it can feel like cattle have always been a part of the western landscape. … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Tropical crickets hitchhike their way to rapid evolution
This week we are introducing a new feature on the BEACON Blog: BEACON Researchers at Work! Please enjoy the first post from Michigan State University postdoc Robin Tinghitella. What would happen if all the lions suddenly lost their manes, or … Continue reading