BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action proposals

The BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action is an NSF Science and Technology Center founded with the mission of illuminating and harnessing the power of evolution in action to advance science and technology and benefit society. Research at BEACON focuses on biological evolution, digital evolution, and evolutionary applications in engineering, uniting biologists who study natural evolutionary processes with computer scientists and engineers who are harnessing these processes to solve real-world problems.

BEACON is headquartered at Michigan State University, with partner institutions at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Washington, North Carolina A&T State University, and the University of Idaho.  At UW, the faculty include Ben Kerr, Herbert Sauro, Carl Bergstrom, Joe Felsenstein, Wenying Shou, and Billie Swalla.

Proposals for BEACON funding are due on January 10th.  Please post any ideas for projects that involve evolution that we can discuss in this blog.