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Feral chickens are a-changing: updates on the rapid evolution of Kauai’s...
This post is by MSU research associate Eben Gering. The author, a collaborator (Kayleigh Chalkowski), and an especially ‘domestic-like’ feral chicken in the Florida Keys After an hour of trying to trap...
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A Tail of Two Ascidians
This post is written by UW grad student Alexander Fodor Figure 1. Photographs of the ascidian Molgula occidentalis taken in an isolation tank at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Labs. Photo...
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Determining functionality in a genome
This post is written by MSU grad student Bethany Moore Bethany Moore, at work programming Imagine you are traveling in space, searching for a hospitable planet. Not only does the planet have to have...
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Uncovering the function of host-associated microbial communities
This post is by MSU grad student Connie Rojas Microbes colonize every surface of their hosts. Once established, they do not live in isolated patches, but instead form highly regulated, structurally and...
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Exploring Genetic Design Space with Phylosemantics
This post is written by UW grad student Bryan Bartley Synthetic biology is a fascinating, interdisciplinary field at the intersection of biology and engineering. Synthetic biologists envision that...
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Individual and Population Variation Pop-Up Institute at UT Austin
This post is written by UT Austin grad student Rayna Harris and postdoc Tessa Solomon-Lane Image created by Nicole Elmer Innovative science is increasingly interdisciplinary. With our Pop-Up Institute...
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Making lemonade out of lemons: the genetics of yeast cell clumping in...
This post is written by UW postdoc Elyse Hope. There is a lot of genetic complexity that can contribute to what an organism looks like. Far from a single gene controlling a single trait (e.g. a gene...
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This post is written by MSU faculty Mark Reimers and Arend Hintze Let us marvel about the complexity of life for a moment. We have DNA transcribed into mRNA, just to get that translated into proteins,...
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It’s a (Selective) Sweep for the Good Genes!
This Evolution 101 post is by MSU grad student Douglas Kirkpatrick Fig. 1: Lebron James helps lead the Cavaliers in a sweep of the Celtics. In baseball, ice hockey, and basketball, when a team wins all...
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Pseudogenes
This Evolution 101 post is by MSU grad student Tyler Derr I’m sure you’ve heard the saying that our DNA is the “blueprint” of who we are. Well, our genes are the sequences in our DNA that actually...
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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...
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Omics beyond model organisms, part II
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Gaurav Moghe. Almost two and half years ago, when I was a graduate student, I wrote a blog post in this very series titled “Omics...
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BEACON Researchers at Work: EDAMAME!
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU faculty member Ashley Shade. We received overwhelmingly positive feedback from our Explorations in Data Analysis for Metagenomic Advances in...
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Bases vs Bytes- Bioinformaticians to the Rescue
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin Research Scientist Dhivya Arasappan. Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field in which computer algorithms and...
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Providing computational methods for biological...
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin research scientist Dennis Wylie. I’ve always been intrigued by the combination of seemingly incongruous things. As a...
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Tools for mapping rare mutations
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin postdoc Daniel Deatherage. Dan in a suit and without a beard. It may be surprising to those that don’t work with...
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Same behavior, same genes?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin research associate Rebecca Young. Me as a teenager in 1996 (Austin, TX). From an early age I spent my time outside...
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Seeing double? Genome duplication and the teleost...
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Joshua Sukeena. Figure 1. The cells and layers of the retina The sense of vision is mediated by a specialized...
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Complex Traits
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Matthieu Delcourt. The evolution of complex traits is one of the major enigmas in evolutionary biology. While we know...
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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...
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