Darwin as a Role Model for Aging
I turned 70 years old yesterday. I woke up a bit earlier than usual, and so at 7 AM I set out on a 7-kilometer run. I’m slower than when I was younger, of course, but happy to be alive … Continue reading →
Telliamed Revisited
Evolutionary science: past, present, and future
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A profound loss in the LTEE family
I am heartbroken to report that Devin Lake passed away suddenly a few days ago at the age of 30. Devin was a good friend to all who knew him, always eager to help in any way that he could, … Continue reading →
STEPS To It
Announcing a new program, called STEPS, to simulate the dynamics of evolving microbial populations. Continue reading →
Homeward Bound
With apologies to Rhymin’ Simon
Some Experiments Work, and Some Don’t
This coming Monday, February 24th, will be the 37th birthday of the Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE) with E. coli. Happy birthday to the 12 lines! I hope you will keep on evolving for many, many more years. I started the … Continue reading →
How Not to Start a Microbial Evolution Experiment
Amir Mani (University of Chicago Medical School) wrote me yesterday about a paper he had read, and about which he was a bit skeptical. The paper reports a striking case of rapid parallel evolution in an experiment with bacteria. I’m … Continue reading →
A Small Correction
Since transferring the LTEE to Jeff Barrick’s lab at UT-Austin in 2022, we’ve been going over the old lab notebooks, making sure everything looks good. It turns out, though, that I made a small error when I started the LTEE back … Continue reading →