LTEE Eclipsed
Austin was in the path of totality for the Great North American Eclipse. The weather was cloudy, unfortunately, but the crescent sun peeked through enough… Read More »LTEE Eclipsed
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The Changing Distribution of Fitness Effects
I’m excited to announce two new papers posted on the bioRxiv preprint website. Both studies examine the evolution of the distribution of fitness effects (DFE)… Read More »The Changing Distribution of Fitness Effects
In Other News
Today is the 34th birthday of the LTEE, which I started on February 24, 1988. With the invasion of Ukraine, however, it’s not a day… Read More »In Other News
Neither Snow nor Rain nor Heat nor Gloom of Night
We had a lot of snow here, but that didn’t stop Dr. Zachary Blount from making the daily LTEE transfers. You can follow Zack’s excellent… Read More »Neither Snow nor Rain nor Heat nor Gloom of Night
New Beginnings
Greetings on this winter solstice, and welcome to this new LTEE website! The winter solstice marks a sort of new beginning, as the days become… Read More »New Beginnings
Creative Sequencing Tool Allows Peek into Low-Frequency Mutational Dynamics
In a new paper just published in Cell Systems, Daniel Deathrage and Jeff Barrick detail an exciting approach to inferring adaptive dynamics at resolutions previously… Read More »Creative Sequencing Tool Allows Peek into Low-Frequency Mutational Dynamics
BEACON Celebrates Lenski’s 60th Birthday
Many past and present LTEE researchers gathered at Michigan State University to celebrate Richard Lenski’s 60th birthday in conjunction with the annual Congress of the… Read More »BEACON Celebrates Lenski’s 60th Birthday