Richard Lenski: Difference between revisions

| influences =

| influenced =

| signature = <!--(filename only)-->

| signature_alt =

| footnotes =

| spouse =

}}

'''Richard E. Lenski''' (born August 13, 1956) is an American [[evolutionary biology|evolutionary biologist]],<ref>{{cite news | url=http://myxo.css.msu.edu/index.html | title=Richard Lenski | publisher=[[Michigan State University]] |year= 2008 | accessdate =2008-09-17}}</ref> a MacArthur "genius" fellow, a Hannah Distinguished Professor of [[Microbial ecology|Microbial Ecology]] at [[Michigan State University]], and a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]]. Lenski is best known for his still ongoing 29-year-old [[E. coli long-term evolution experiment|long-term ''E. coli'' evolution experiment,]] which has been instrumental in understanding the core processes of evolution, including [[mutation rate]]s<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tenaillon|first=Olivier|last2=Barrick|first2=Jeffrey E.|last3=Ribeck|first3=Noah|last4=Deatherage|first4=Daniel E.|last5=Blanchard|first5=Jeffrey L.|last6=Dasgupta|first6=Aurko|last7=Wu|first7=Gabriel C.|last8=Wielgoss|first8=Sébastien|last9=Cruveiller|first9=Stéphane|date=2016-08-11|title=Tempo and mode of genome evolution in a 50,000-generation experiment|url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v536/n7615/full/nature18959.html|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=536|issue=7615|pages=165–170|doi=10.1038/nature18959|issn=0028-0836|pmc=4988878|pmid=27479321}}</ref>[[Mutation rate|,]] [[clonal interference]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Maddamsetti|first=Rohan|last2=Lenski|first2=Richard E.|last3=Barrick|first3=Jeffrey E.|date=2015-06-01|title=Adaptation, Clonal Interference, and Frequency-Dependent Interactions in a Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli|url=http://www.genetics.org/content/200/2/619|journal=Genetics|language=en|volume=200|issue=2|pages=619–631|doi=10.1534/genetics.115.176677|issn=0016-6731|pmc=4492384|pmid=25911659}}</ref> [[Antimicrobial resistance|antibiotic resistance]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lenski|first=R. E.|date=1998-12-01|title=Bacterial evolution and the cost of antibiotic resistance|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10943373|journal=International Microbiology: The Official Journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology|volume=1|issue=4|pages=265–270|issn=1139-6709|pmid=10943373}}</ref> the [[evolution]] of novel traits,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Blount|first=Zachary D.|last2=Borland|first2=Christina Z.|last3=Lenski|first3=Richard E.|date=2008-06-10|title=Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli|url=http://www.pnas.org/content/105/23/7899|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|language=en|volume=105|issue=23|pages=7899–7906|doi=10.1073/pnas.0803151105|issn=0027-8424|pmc=2430337|pmid=18524956}}</ref> and [[speciation]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Meyer|first=Justin R.|last2=Dobias|first2=Devin T.|last3=Medina|first3=Sarah J.|last4=Servilio|first4=Lisa|last5=Gupta|first5=Animesh|last6=Lenski|first6=Richard E.|date=2016-11-24|title=Ecological speciation of bacteriophage lambda in allopatry and sympatry|url=http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/11/21/science.aai8446|journal=Science|language=en|pages=aai8446|doi=10.1126/science.aai8446|issn=0036-8075|pmid=27884940}}</ref> He is also well known for his pioneering work in studying evolution digitally using [[Self-replication|self-replicating]] organisms called [[Avida]].