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 [...]
