The motility and growth curve data from your environmental isolates are in, and they can be found here: micr-713-2008-growth-curves.xls 713-swim-and-swarm-motility-spring-2008.xls With this spreadsheet, you now have enough data to figure out who is the lucky winner of the grand prize for the second running of the Bacterial Tri(quad)athlon. The prize can be picked from the [...]
Entries from April 29th, 2008
Microbial quadrathlon: the quest for the Giant Microbe Championship
April 29th, 2008 · No Comments · General
On the evolution of virulence; how microbial communities are structured
April 29th, 2008 · No Comments · General
On 4/24 and today I showed slides describing some of the body of theory on the evolution of virulence. These slides are here: http://micropopbio.org/files/2007/12/713-lecture-9-evol-of-virulence.ppt I also presented results from my old paper with Paul Ewald: http://micropopbio.org/cooper/files/2007/11/cooper-et-al-2002-proc-r-soc.pdf You all presented very interesting papers as riffs on the theme of why virulence might evolve. Please post these [...]
Summary of your presentations on community interactions in space and/or time
April 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments · General
All, Nice job on choosing papers. Here is a summary of what I heard. Please comment on this post to add to, correct, or question my brief overview. All readings can be found at: http://micropopbio.org/cooper/2008/04/17/student-chosen-readings-for-evolution-of-community-structure-in-space-or-time/ In chronological order of publication, 1) Dave, who chose Bull JJ Molineaux IJ, Rice WR. 1991. Selection of benevolence in [...]
Blog contributions needed, and evolution of cooperation and antagonism in structured populations
April 14th, 2008 · No Comments · General
To do this week: 1) Many of your blogs are becoming woefully out of date. Please post 1) on Turner et al phi6, and specifically your likes/dislikes of these designs, and 2) on your digest of the Velicer et al. Myxo article that you chose to present on Thursday. Please do so ASAP. 2) Please [...]
Cooperation and cheating papers for this week
April 6th, 2008 · No Comments · General
Class, I have posted the 2 papers that you are to read for this week, as well as some supplementary papers that may help you understand the Myxococcus xanthus experiments. Vaughn will be lecturing on Tues. on this material to help get you started, but feel free to start reading. Steffen
More great new articles FYI
April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · General
Check out the latest blog on mutation by Olivia Judson: http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/ Last week, she talked about the poorly studied, rare group of mutations that are beneficial, and this week, she talks about the potential for mutational hotspots. As always, it’s written very well and for the public. Also, check out this wacky study: the airborne [...]
