Microbial Population Biology

The growth curve data from your environmental isolates are in, and they can be found here:
713 isolate growth curves
With this spreadsheet, you now have enough data to figure out who is the lucky winner of the grand prize for the inaugural running of the Bacterial Triathlon. The prize can be picked from the following [...]

Dear class,
On Tuesday 10/23 we will complete discussion of the evolution of specialization (my work) and begin discussion of the evolution of mutation rates. To support this discussion, please read, for this week, the articles posted on the Assignments page:
http://micropopbio.org/cooper/2007/10/22/evolution-of-mutation-rates/
Enjoy! And remember that we’ll finish up early tomorrow to pick colonies isolated from [...]

Microbial Population Biology Lab: Environmental microbe isolation and tournament
Introduction
We now know that there are a massive number of bacterial species in the environment, but only a small fraction of these have been cultured. Thanks to the introduction of molecular techniques such as shotgun sequencing of environmental samples (metagenomics), we have been able to identify [...]