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Tessa Fisher - Scientist & fiction writer

2/17/2020

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ELife graduate student Tessa Fisher is proud to announce that her short story "Recovering the Lost Art of Cuddling" has been published in the anthology _Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters_ from Worldweaver Press. The story features a microbiologist trying to survive an oncoming blizzard in a radically sustainable future. Check out the piece here.
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No, graduate students should not have to go into (Further) debt for their careers

2/14/2020

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Check out John Malloy's first Nature publication - his opinion piece in Nature Careers explains how graduate students should not be responsible for paying costs for travel (even in the case of reimbursement). It is often a choice between furthering one's career and going into debt, which is an institutional problem within academia.
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Graduate Students attend Elsi Symposium

2/11/2020

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Pilar Vergeli & Dylan Gagler, both graduate students, attended the 8th Annual Earth-Life Space Institute Symposium in Tokyo, Japan last week! Pilar presented a poster on models of biospheres on both terrestrial and aquatic worlds - she is developing a new approach using metagenomic data to generate planetary scale models of ecosystems. Dylan presented a poster on classifying enzymes across environmental conditions. 
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John Malloy attends Information & Biology meeting

1/24/2020

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Graduate student John Malloy attended the Biology & Information Coding Theory workshop in Alexandria, Virginia and presented his work on the emergence of chirality within biochemical networks. The workshop was also organized by his undergraduate academic advisor, Dr. Ivan Erill of University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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Jake hanson's philosophical zombies

8/28/2019

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Congratulations to lab member Jake Hanson for recently submitting the preprint titled "Integrated Information Theory and Isomorphic Feed-Forward Philosophical Zombies"! The paper is currently available on ArXiv here. 
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Lab earns "Best Paper Award" at ALIFE 2019!

7/31/2019

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Huge congrats to Dr. Harrsion Smith, Dr. Hyunju Kim, and Prof. Sara Walker for earning the "best paper" award at the 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, for work presented by Harrison titled "Biochemical Networks Display Universal Structure Across Projections and Levels of Organization". The abstract is available here.
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Presentations at ALIFE 2019

7/26/2019

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​Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Douglas Moore is headed to the 2019 Conference on Artificial Life (ALife 2019), held in Newcastle,  to present a paper titled "Inferring a Graph's Topology from the Games Played on It", co-authored with Prof. Sara Walker. The full paper is available in the conference proceedings here. 

Lab alumni Dr. Harrison Smith is also presenting at ALife a paper titled "Biochemical Networks Display Universal Structure Across Projections and Levels of Organization", co-authored with Dr. Hyunju Kim and Prof. Sara Walker. The abstract is available here. 

Both Doug Moore and Harrison Smith, along with lab alumni Cole Mathis, were selected for lightning talks at the meeting. The full program for the conference can be found here.

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Grad Student John Malloy to deliver talk at the Astrobiology graduate student conference

7/22/2019

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Graduate student John Malloy will travel to Salt Lake City Utah, to deliver a talk titled "The Evolution of Chirality" at the Astrobiology Graduate Student Conference 2019. More details here.
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Sara Walker participates in FQXi Conference "Mind Matters: INtelligence and Agency in the Physical World"

7/22/2019

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This week Prof. Sara Walker travels to the Foundational Questions Science Institute's conference "Mind Matters: Intelligence and Agency in the Physical World" held in Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy. There, she will give a talk titled "Bio from Bit" on our team's work understanding fundamental properties of life. More about the conference can be found here.
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Sara Walker heads to Scifoo

7/11/2019

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Sara Walker will participate in Science Foo Camp ("SciFoo" for short) at GoogleX July 12-14th. More about SciFoo here. 
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