About a year and a half ago, I wrote about a pair of papers posted on the bioRxiv preprint website. Both papers examined the evolution… Read More »An Update to the Changing Distribution of Fitness Effects
We recently published an open access video protocol in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) covering some of the core procedures we use in the… Read More »By JoVE, we’ve done it!
Today we revived frozen samples of the 12 LTEE populations in the Barrick lab at the University of Texas at Austin to continue the Long-Term… Read More »LTEE Kickoff at UT Austin
The LTEE is covered in an episode of Veritasium. Check out the video below! Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4sLAQvEH-M&t=1s
Tony Lund was the writer and director for “Through the Wormhole” when he and his team came to MSU to tell the story of the… Read More »Through the Wormhole, with Morgan Freeman
Elizabeth Pennisi describes the LTEE at 25 years. She interviews some of the people whose contributions have helped the LTEE survive and flourish, while also… Read More »Science: The Man Who Bottled Evolution
The LTEE is pretty old, right? But it’s not even the oldest experiment at MSU, as NPR reporter Nell Greenfieldboyce explains. Link: https://www.npr.org/2012/11/23/165030844/experiments-that-keep-going-and-going-and-going
Carl Zimmer describes the work by Zack Blount, Jeff Barrick, Carla Davidson, and me to identify the genetic underpinnings of the new ability to consume… Read More »Discover Magazine: The Birth of the New, The Rewiring of the Old
Microbiologist Stan Maloy interviews Richard Lenski about the LTEE and digital evolution, in front of the “Digital Orca” in Vancouver, BC. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQr8ldEeO04
Ed Yong explains work by Bob Woods, Jeff Barrick, and others on the race between “tortoise” and “hare” lineages in one of the LTEE populations.… Read More »National Geographic: Replaying Evolution Reveals the Benefits of Being Slow and Steady
Carl Zimmer reports the findings from a paper by Zack Blount, Christina Borland, and me on the unexpected evolution of the ability to consume citrate… Read More »Discover: A New Step In Evolution