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Interdisciplinarity in evolutionary science… and video game design.

Posted on May 27, 2017 by hageyt

This post is written by UI faculty Barrie Robison One year ago, my colleague Terry Soule and I embarked on a somewhat crazy idea – we wanted to make a video game built upon the principles of evolutionary biology. The two of … Continue reading →

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Visualizing coevolution in dynamic fitness landscapes

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Danielle Whittaker

This post and video is by postdoc Bjørn Østman and graduate student Randy Olson, both at Michigan State University. The fitness landscape is the framework for thinking about evolutionary processes the same way the phylogenetic tree is how we think about … Continue reading →

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BEACON Introductory Video

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

We are very pleased to share our new video introducing BEACON, some of our members, and examples of the work we do. Enjoy!

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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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Zachary Blount shows us evolution in action in E. coli

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

BEACON member Zachary Blount, formerly a graduate student and now a postdoc in Richard Lenski’s lab, is the lead author on a new paper in Nature describing the step-by-step process by which E. coli evolved the ability to consume citrate … Continue reading →

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Watch a talk by BEACON's Titus Brown

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

C. Titus Brown, “Streaming lossy compression of biological sequence data using probabilistic data structures.” A talk given at the Michigan State University Computer Science department on September 7, 2012.

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Evolution 101: Maternal Effects

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s Evolution 101 blog post is by MSU graduate student Emily Weigel. This is a moment to thank your mom. Mothers have more of an effect on their offspring than one might first think. In addition to the DNA, … Continue reading →

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Evolution 101: Neuroevolution

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week we introduce a new occasional blog series: Evolution 101. Enjoy! If you were to ask a random person what the best example of Artificial Intelligence is out there, what do you think it would be? Most likely, it … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Robot Brains using Evolutionary Algorithms

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is courtesy of MSU undergraduate student Faisal Tameesh. For more information about Faisal’s work, you can contact him at tameeshf at msu dot edu.

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Robot Behavior

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Chad Byers. I have always been fascinated by the mechanisms that drive both the molecular and digital systems of our world and have been fortunate enough, through … Continue reading →

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