Applications are now open for the 2023 Stengl-Wyer Scholar program at UT Austin. If you are a recent PhD or will graduate soon and have independent ideas for research related to the diversity of life, this is a great opportunity! the mrbrown show NaturalSciences @ UT
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#LTEE 77K Update: Detected some hiccups and corrected them. We’re planning to regularly use whole-genome sequencing to monitor the integrity of the populations moving forward.
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Help our outstanding UT iGEM Team team send students to present at the #iGEM2023 World Jamboree!
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Starting the new year with our story on L. plantarum #evolution across different hosts out BMC Biology 🍾
Thanks to Elisa Maritan , Jeffrey Barrick , Schwarzer Martin and all co-authors!

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Electron Tomography and Machine Learning for Understanding the Highly Ordered Structure of Leafhopper Brochosomes = Great collaborative study led by Dr. Gabriel R. Burks, PhD @theSchroederLab pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Thanks to Emmanuel Chavarria and all in our lab who have contributed to the #LTEE during the first thousand generations at UT! the-ltee.org/the-first-thou… Molecular Biosciences UTexasILS NaturalSciences @ UT

#FeaturedProtocol this week: FUGUES ( #FUnctionalGenomics Using Engineered #Symbionts ); studying the biology of #honeybees utilizing an engineered bee gut bacterium to induce a sustained #RNAi response in the host go.nature.com/3Fs9QWp Jeffrey Barrick NaturalSciences @ UT and Sean Leonard

🎉Congrats to the UT iGEM Team team for winning the Best Foundational Advance award at the iGEM Headquarters Grand Jamboree, for a new rapid test for a deadly disease in bats.🦇 They were also the only top 10 overall undergraduate team from the U.S. cns.utexas.edu/news/students-… Jeffrey Barrick Molecular Biosciences

Congratulations to the 2022 UT iGEM Team team for winning the the Best Foundational Advance award at the iGEM Grand Jamboree! They were also a top 10 overall undergraduate team, finalists for Best Presentation and Best Part Collection, and awarded a Gold Medal. Molecular Biosciences NaturalSciences @ UT

Thanks to Thomas, Flora, Ivan, and everyone else in the TIMC lab for hosting me in Grenoble and sharing so much exciting science. Looking forward to future collaborations and exchanges!

Wonderful to see our Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter and brochosome on the cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution ! A really fun project with @NancyMoran15 Jeffrey Barrick Yiyuan Li (YY) Vy Dang Allen Xue, Renee Holmes and Spencer Johnston! Also thanks to our talented artist Jason Zhu for this drawing!

A group of students from UT Austin are taking part in an international biology competition known as iGEM Headquarters. This year, the team of 12 undergrads are trying to protect Austin's beloved bat🦇population.
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The UT Austin iGEM team has a fantastic project this year! You can support these students through the 40for40: 40for40.utexas.edu/giving-day/583…; and learn more about their project as they complete their website here in the next couple of weeks: 2022.igem.wiki/austin-utexas/

Fantastic opportunity at UT for independent postdocs. Please spread the word.

Congratulations to Kate Elston for defending her PhD thesis on insect symbiont engineering yesterday!

This week Emmanuel Chavarria and Isaac Gifford performed their first #LTEE transfers. Isaac will be coming in to keep the E. coli evolving on the July 4th holiday.

The world’s longest evolution experiment is now in Austin!
On Tuesday, Jeff Barrick thawed 12 strains of E. coli that have evolved for 75,000 generations—that’s equivalent to 1.5 million yrs of human evolution. We can’t wait to see what surprises & discoveries are in store! #LTEE

We revived the E. coli #LTEE populations on Tuesday, June 21st, to continue evolving them at UT Austin. 75,000 generations++ Photos and more info in this post. the-ltee.org/ltee-kickoff-a… Richard Lenski
NaturalSciences @ UT Molecular Biosciences

As the legendary #LTEE baton is passed on to Jeffrey Barrick, check out this conversation between Richard Lenski and Dynamic Ecology published in PLOS Biology back when the LTEE was a mere 27 years (or 60,000 generations) old... plos.io/1N6Jsgt

Last line in this conversation still highly relevant: “If you know anyone who would like to endow a million-year experiment, have them get in touch with me.”
Could endow a small foundation to support the #LTEE and ensure its contuation into perpetuity.