Tag Archives: E. coli

BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolution and the nano-scale

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Danielle Whittaker

Today’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by NC A&T faculty Dr. Joseph L. Graves Jr. One nanometer is defined as 1 x 10-9 meter. This is about the size of one glucose molecule. The nucleus of a human cell … Continue reading →

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"The Man Who Bottled Evolution"

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

A new Science paper from the Lenski lab is generating lots of buzz! Facebook’s popular page “I F*ing Love Science” sums up the Long-Term Evolution Experiment in this infographic: From the MSU press release: There’s no peak in sight ­– … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Survival of the Rarest

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Noah Ribeck. We are all taught the basic tenet of evolution by natural selection: occasionally an individual is born with a mutation that improves its chances of having … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: The Origin of a Species?

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Zachary Blount. I love big questions. I tend to walk around, my head in the clouds, questions flitting through my head. I admit that I have walked into … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Why do men and women exist?

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Rohan Maddamsetti.  In his treatise on love, Symposium, Plato tells a myth of a time when men and women were one. People used to have one head … Continue reading →

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Rich Lenski explains the Long Term Evolution Experiment [VIDEO]

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

In episode 61 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Vancouver, Canada on February 17th, 2012, Dr. Stan Maloy talks with BEACON’s Richard Lenski Ph.D., Hannah Professor of Microbial Ecology, Michigan State … Continue reading →

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Zachary Blount shows us evolution in action in E. coli

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

BEACON member Zachary Blount, formerly a graduate student and now a postdoc in Richard Lenski’s lab, is the lead author on a new paper in Nature describing the step-by-step process by which E. coli evolved the ability to consume citrate … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolution of Higher Mutation Rates

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Tasneem Pierce. When I started as an undergraduate in BEACON a year ago, I kept hearing about Avida and how powerful it is to study … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Effects of rapid environmental change on evolution

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington postdoc Jenna Gallie. Life has existed on Earth for nearly four billion years. Given that organisms have been evolving continuously, why are they still not perfectly adapted … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Making synthetic viruses to study evolution

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Martina Ederer. After working on many different projects in a number of different labs, I always seem to come back to the study of evolution. Hence, … Continue reading →

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