Lena Vincent was just selected a Marie Christine Kohler Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery for the 2020-2021 academic year. Congrats Lena!
Month: May 2020
Brandon Dawning receives Sophomore Honors Summer Apprenticeship
Congratulations to Brandon for winning a fellowship for his project, Chemical Ecosystem Selection and the Origins of Life!
Nisa Karimi’s Baobab phylogeny paper
This ambitious collaborative project led by Nisa Karimi is now published! It reports on the phylogenomics of Adansonia and documents reticulate evolution in the group. The paper also presents some important new methods developed by Cécile …
Chemical ecology preprint
This preprint by Zhen, Praful, ALex, and David shows that chemical reaction networks can contain autocatalytic cycles which can show logistic growth when fed with a flux of food. Furthermore, when multiple autocatalytic cycles are …
Alex Plum receives Hilldale Fellowship
Congratulations to Alex Plum for receiving a prestigious 2020-21 Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship! Alex will continue his theoretical work modeling the dynamics of autocatalytic chemical reaction networks to understand the emergence of adaptive evolution before …