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Press Coverage and Such

2008 paper on historical contingency in the evolution of aerobic citrate usage in E. coli:

Carl Zimmer's Blog, The Loom:  Post 1:  "A New Step in Evolution"
                                                               Post 2:  "E. coli Evolution Followup"
                                                               Post 3:  "A New Step in Evolution, Continued:  Read the Paper"
The New Scientist:  "Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift in the Lab"
BBC Knowledge:  "Evolution in Action"
Science News for Kids:  "Hitting the Redo Button for Evolution"
Ars Technica:  "Tracking Adaptation as Bacteria Evolve"
Ed Yong's Blog:  Not Exactly Rocket Science:  "History Restricts and Guides the Evolution of Innovations"
P.Z. Myer's Blog:  Pharyngula:  "Historical Contingency in the Evolution of E. coli"
While not really "press" coverage, this paper's findings, together with the LTEE in general, was featured in Chapter 5 of Richard Dawkins' book The Greatest Show on Earth
2012 paper on the genomic analysis of aerobic citrate usage in E. coli:

NSF Interview:  "Postdoctoral researcher Zachary Blount discusses discovering the processes of E. coli evolution"
WAMC Academic Minute:  "Evolving Bacteria"
Washington Post:  "Evolutionary Innovation Caught in the Act"
Science News for Kids:  "Bacteria Learn New Trick"
Science News:"Evolving E. coli"  (A Science News Top 25 Science Stories of 2012)
Carl Zimmer's Blog, The Loom:  "Birth of the New, Rewiring of the Old"
MSU News:  "Evolution is as Complicated as 1,2,3"
2015 paper with Caroline Turner on the ecology of the population that evolved aerobic citrate usage:
The New Scientist: Cradle of creation: evolution shapes up new ecosystem in the lab
Science News: Top 25 Science Stories of 2015: Fluke Extinction Surprises Lab

General
2013:  Science:  News Focus:  "The Man Who Bottled Evolution"
2012:  Santa Fe institute Bulletin:  "Watching Evolution Unfold"
2015:  New Scientist: Chance: The Importance of Randomness in Evolution
2015: My work was discussed in a segment on the lab and the LTEE aired on Morgan Freeman's science program, "Through the Wormhole".


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