Return of the coli
As explained in this article, the LTEE is back at Michigan State University after 7,000 generations in Texas. We revived the E. coli and restarted… Read More »Return of the coli
LTEE Updates
The LTEE Leaderboard Goes Live
Over the last 36 years, many researchers have contributed to the LTEE by performing the daily transfers of the 12 E. coli populations. Most of… Read More »The LTEE Leaderboard Goes Live
Ara+3: The Red Scare
[Note: LTEE veterans, feel free to skip the first paragraph, but take note of the mutation in red—the ‘Chekhov’s mutation’ of this little narrative, as… Read More »Ara+3: The Red Scare
80,000 Generations: New Olympic Record
On August 7th, we froze down the 80,000-generation* populations of the LTEE. We’re pretty sure this is both a new Olympic Record and World Record… Read More »80,000 Generations: New Olympic Record
By JoVE, we’ve done it!
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!
77,000 Generation Update: Population Switcheroo and Acinetobacter Interloper
We just discovered and dealt with our first major hiccups in continuing to propagate the LTEE at UT Austin. We mistakenly swapped two of the… Read More »77,000 Generation Update: Population Switcheroo and Acinetobacter Interloper