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
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
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
The best part of the LTEE is the wonderful people who’ve worked on it over the years including graduate and undergraduate students, postdocs, technicians, and… Read More »Nkrumah Grant and Kyle Card are in the Hood
The LTEE has inspired other teams to perform long-term evolution experiments. In this article, Michael Gresko explains a multi-year experiment performed by Ozan Bozdag, Will… Read More »National Geographic: Evolving Globs of Yeast May Unlock Mysteries of Multicellular Life
The LTEE is mentioned as background for understanding how microbes evolve in this article by Dhruv Khullar. In 1988, Richard Lenski, a thirty-one-year-old biologist at… Read More »New Yorker: How Will the Coronavirus Evolve?
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
Neerja Hajela has worked on the LTEE for over 22 years as a technician and lab manager. But alas, she is now retiring. Neerja has… Read More »Neerja Hajela Retires as All-Time LTEE Champion
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
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
This page is part of a series of posts about what we’ve learned from the LTEE. You can view the original version on Telliamed Revisited.… Read More »What We’ve Learned about Evolution from the LTEE: Number 5
This page is part of a series of posts about what we’ve learned from the LTEE. You can view the original version on Telliamed Revisited.… Read More »What We’ve Learned about Evolution from the LTEE: Number 4
This page is part of a series of posts about what we’ve learned from the LTEE. You can view the original version on Telliamed Revisited.… Read More »What We’ve Learned about Evolution from the LTEE: Number 3
This page is part of a series of posts about what we’ve learned from the LTEE. You can view the original version on Telliamed Revisited.… Read More »What We’ve Learned about Evolution from the LTEE: Number 2
This page is part of a series of posts about what we’ve learned from the LTEE. You can view the original version on Telliamed Revisited.… Read More »What We’ve Learned about Evolution from the LTEE: Number 1
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