Note: this post is a guest post by Rohan Maddamsetti, posted by the regular blog author, Titus Brown. Typos are Titus's fault. Flaws in logic are Rohan's ;). See the paper on arXiv [1] and the discussion on Haldane's Sieve, also.
I recently wrote a short paper explaining some interesting results …
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I just flew back from Montreal, where I gave a talk at the International Tunicate Meeting on the Molgula project. This is a project wherein we are doing quantitative mRNA sequencing on two species of ascidians, or sea squirts -- specifically, on M. oculata (tailed), M. occulta (tailless) -- and their hybrids …
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In thinking about open science and open communication about science, I've always been frustrated by the people who claim that the risks outweight the benefit. Their arguments seem sound if you buy into a certain kind of logic (the creationists will try to twist whatever you say! the climate change …
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(with Billie Swalla)
I've spent the last two weeks out at the Roscoff Statione Biologique in Roscoff, France. This little port is on the northern coast of the French region of Bretagne, or Brittany. I'm here with Billie Swalla, a professor at UW Seattle, and Elijah Lowe, a Computer Science …
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Course page at: http://ged.msu.edu/courses/2010-fall-cse-891/:
This course will introduce biologists to computational thinking, practical computational techniques, and research topics in computational evolution. The course will consist of three intensive hands-on 5-week modules: computational competence in UNIX; data mining and hypothesis generation using the Avida digital life …read more
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Just got news that the BEACON NSF Science and Technology Center for the study of Evolution in Action funded Chris Adami to come do a sabbatical here at Michigan State University for the next year. This puts me, Chris, and Charles Ofria at the same institution (now MSU, then Caltech …
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