BEACON Researchers at Work: The tale of the tail-less sea squirt
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Max Maliska. I have found my work as a PhD. candidate in Billie Swalla’s lab at University of Washington in...
View ArticleLamprey genome sequenced
This blog post is reposted with permission from BEACON faculty member C. Titus Brown’s blog, Living in an Ivory Basement. The lamprey is a jawless vertebrate that diverged from the jawed vertebrate...
View ArticleBEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Genome Libraries
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Peter Enyeart. Photo by Mario Gallucci, http://www.galluccidesign.com/ I love bacteria. That may seem...
View ArticleBEACON Researchers at Work: To What Place Workflowmics?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by NC A&T faculty member Scott Harrison. A practical challenge in genomic studies has been for students to conceive of different outcomes...
View ArticleBEACON 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...
View ArticleBEACON 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...
View ArticleBEACON 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...
View ArticleBEACON 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...
View ArticleBEACON 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...
View ArticleBEACON 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...
View ArticleBEACON 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...
View ArticleBEACON 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...
View ArticleBEACON 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...
View Article3rd 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...
View ArticlePseudogenes
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...
View ArticleIt’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...
View ArticleStudying the Evolutionary Dynamics of Emergent Phenotypes
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,...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleIndividual 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...
View ArticleExploring 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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