Dear all, We’ll be exploring the various strategies that microbes (bacteria and viruses in particular) can evolve so as to increase their own fitness to the benefit or detriment of others in their community. We’ll begin this week by learning about a very simple system that, it turns out, is not so simple. Paul Turner, [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2008
Pingbacks and trackbacks: the ways to link blog posts
March 25th, 2008 · No Comments · General
Hi all, In response to the voiced need to integrate blog posts and make them more of a discussion, please visit: http://www.optiniche.com/blog/117/wordpress-trackback-tutorial/ I hope this tutorial helps a bit. In particular, see: WordPress’ Built In Ping Feature WordPress takes trackback to a new level by allowing pingbacks. Pingbacks allow you to notify a weblog of [...]
Thursday recitation paper(s) posted
March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · General
The paper that I will be talking about on Thursday is posted in the Assignments section along with the original Rainey paper and a brief essay that he wrote. If you have any questions before Thursday please let me know. Steffen
Why sex?
March 13th, 2008 · No Comments · General
Today’s lecture slides are found here: 713-lecture-6-mutation-rate-and-sex.ppt Today’s recitation, which is focused on Tim Cooper’s test of one hypothesis for “Why sex?” needs to be rescheduled because of a seminar conflict. I hope we can find a time in the week following Spring Break. Coming attractions: -More on Why Sex? -The Competitive Exclusion Principle and [...]
Experimental evolution: lecture and coming attractions
March 4th, 2008 · No Comments · General
Hi guys, First, I just invited Richard Lenski and Michael Travisano to comment on your comments regarding their 1995 paper. Please stay tuned to the Experts blog. Here are the slides for the experimental evolution lecture that I gave today: 713-lecture-5-experimental-evolution.ppt For Thursday 3/06, please read the paper by Giraud, Taddei et al from Science, [...]
