Richard Lenski

This article is about Richard Lenski, the evolutionary biologist. For the Lutheran commentator (his ancestor), see Richard C. H. Lenski.
Richard E. Lenski
Richard Lenski with Long-Term Flasks and Incubator on May 26, 2016
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Oberlin College
Known forE. coli long-term evolution experiment
AwardsNCSE Friend of Darwin Award (2017)[1]
Sewall Wright Award (2012)
MacArthur Fellowship (1996)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1991)[2]
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology Experimental evolution Microbiology
InstitutionsMichigan State University
University of California, Irvine
ThesisEffects of competition and disturbance on ground beetle populations (1982)
Doctoral advisorNelson Hairston
Other academic advisorsBruce Levin (Postdoctoral Mentor)
Doctoral studentsPaul E. Turner
Zachary Blount
Michael Travisano
Websitelenski.mmg.msu.edu

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Richard E. Lenski (born 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist,[3] the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a MacArthur Fellow. Lenski is best known for his still ongoing 36-year-old long-term E. coli evolution experiment, which has been instrumental in understanding the core processes of evolution, including mutation rates,[4] clonal interference,[5] antibiotic resistance,[6] the evolution of novel traits,[7] and speciation.[8] He is also well known for his pioneering work in studying evolution digitally using self-replicating organisms called Avida.

  1. ^ "MSU's Richard Lenski wins 2017 Friend of Darwin award".
  2. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Richard E. Lenski".
  3. ^ "Richard Lenski". Michigan State University. 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  4. ^ Tenaillon, Olivier; Barrick, Jeffrey E.; Ribeck, Noah; Deatherage, Daniel E.; Blanchard, Jeffrey L.; Dasgupta, Aurko; Wu, Gabriel C.; Wielgoss, Sébastien; Cruveiller, Stéphane (2016-08-11). "Tempo and mode of genome evolution in a 50,000-generation experiment". Nature. 536 (7615): 165–170. Bibcode:2016Natur.536..165T. doi:10.1038/nature18959. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 4988878. PMID 27479321.
  5. ^ Maddamsetti, Rohan; Lenski, Richard E.; Barrick, Jeffrey E. (2015-06-01). "Adaptation, Clonal Interference, and Frequency-Dependent Interactions in a Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli". Genetics. 200 (2): 619–631. doi:10.1534/genetics.115.176677. ISSN 0016-6731. PMC 4492384. PMID 25911659.
  6. ^ Lenski, R. E. (1998-12-01). "Bacterial evolution and the cost of antibiotic resistance". International Microbiology. 1 (4): 265–270. ISSN 1139-6709. PMID 10943373.
  7. ^ Blount, Zachary D.; Borland, Christina Z.; Lenski, Richard E. (2008-06-10). "Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105 (23): 7899–7906. Bibcode:2008PNAS..105.7899B. doi:10.1073/pnas.0803151105. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2430337. PMID 18524956.
  8. ^ Meyer, Justin R.; Dobias, Devin T.; Medina, Sarah J.; Servilio, Lisa; Gupta, Animesh; Lenski, Richard E. (2016-11-24). "Ecological speciation of bacteriophage lambda in allopatry and sympatry". Science. 354 (6317): 1301–1304. Bibcode:2016Sci...354.1301M. doi:10.1126/science.aai8446. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 27884940.