| LTEE Website | https://the-ltee.org/ |
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What book has the best ending line?
The Origin of Species
“There is grandeur in this view of life… whilst this planet has gone cycling… from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
Charles Darwin
#Bacteria: The Tiny Giants
3-part #BBC #radio series narrated by #TimHayward and featuring a dozen or so #microbiologists, including (among others) #LauraHug, #PaulTurner, #ValeriaSouza and yours truly (discussing the #LTEE).
We are looking for a new colleague to lead the microbiology & immunology section of @PLOSBiology!!
Do you have micro/immuno expertise (including virology of course) & a passion for science away from the bench? This could be for you
Get in touch w/ any Qs!
Associate or Senior level
Applications will be assessed upon receipt
Boosts greatly appreciated!
#editing #careersinscience #microbiology #virology #immmunology
https://us232.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePortal/en-US/plos/Posting/View/288
‘Please write me,’ she scribbled on a random egg in 1951. Someone just did.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/09/05/egg-message-1951-amalfitano-starn/
Might be a good time to mention that, years and years ago, I wrote a paper with an undergrad in the lab [Amy Strom, now a postdoc at Princeton] about using the game of Mastermind* to teach experimental design and data interpretation
*Wordle is a variant of Mastermind btw
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000578
The code-breaking game Mastermind, which can be played in minutes at no cost, creates opportunities for students to discuss scientific reasoning, hypothesis-testing, effective experimental design, and sound interpretation of results.
Evolution of a cross-feeding interaction following a key innovation in a long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli
https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/mic.0.001390
Caroline B. Turner, Zachary D. Blount, Daniel H. Mitchell, and Richard E. Lenski
#evolution #adaptation #experimental_evolution
#ecology #microbiology
#LTEE #OA #science
The evolution of a novel trait can profoundly change an organism’s effects on its environment, which can in turn affect the further evolution of that organism and any coexisting organisms. We examine these effects and feedbacks following the evolution of a novel function in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE) with Escherichia coli . A characteristic feature of E. coli is its inability to grow aerobically on citrate (Cit−). Nonetheless, a Cit+ variant with this capacity evolved in one LTEE population after 31 000 generations. The Cit+ clade then coexisted stably with another clade that retained the ancestral Cit− phenotype. This coexistence was shaped by the evolution of a cross-feeding relationship based on C4-dicarboxylic acids, particularly succinate, fumarate, and malate, that the Cit+ variants release into the medium. Both the Cit− and Cit+ cells evolved to grow on these excreted resources. The evolution of aerobic growth on citrate thus led to a transition from an ecosystem based on a single limiting resource, glucose, to one with at least five resources that were either shared or partitioned between the two coexisting clades. Our findings show that evolutionary novelties can change environmental conditions in ways that facilitate diversity by altering ecosystem structure and the evolutionary trajectories of coexisting lineages.
We are hiring!!! Assistant Professor in Emerging Zoonoses - based in the departments of Integrative Biology & Public Health
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04076
We seek an interdisciplinary scientist working on the ecological, epidemiological and/or evolutionary drivers of human-relevant zoonotic infectious disease who develops and applies fundamental ecological and evolutionary approaches to meet the challenge of zoonotic diseases in human populations.
Come join us in the beautiful Bay Area!
MU-Peter Shimon 🀄
Nonia Pariente
Vivek Mutalik
Scott Barolo
Britt Koskella
Mike Dickison
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