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  E. coli Evolution Follow-up [The Loom] I'm back at last from the west coast leg of the Microcosm tour. Portland had a cloudy, melancholy charm, and at Powell's I gave a reading in front of a collection of hand-made black velvet paintings from the nearby Velveteria . When the audience's... Posted Jun 05 2008, 09:06 AM by ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Feeds Filed under: e coli, blogger, microcosm, microsoft research, lunchtime crowd, menlo, intrepid souls, familiar faces, black velvet, tour portland, kepler, pollie, jimi hendrix, spinach, menlo park, velvet paintings, geoff arnold, abc affiliate, kusp, moira gunn

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  Reminder: A Double-Header in Seattle Today [The Loom] The microbial march continues! I'll be in Seattle today, giving two talks on Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life . The first is a 1:30 talk at Microsoft Research . Then I'll be giving a public talk at Town Hall at 7:30 as part of their... Posted Jun 03 2008, 06:34 AM by ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Feeds Filed under: e coli, microsoft, new science, science series, town hall, seattle, microcosm, science of life, microsoft research

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  A New Step In Evolution [The Loom] One of the most important experiments in evolution is going on right now in a laboratory in Michigan State University. A dozen flasks full of E. coli are sloshing around on a gently rocking table. The bacteria in those flasks has been evolving since 1988... Posted Jun 02 2008, 07:41 PM by ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Feeds Filed under: glucose, new york times, biologist, fossil record, colonies, e coli, mutations, mutation, microbes, natural selection, bacteria, generations, ancestors, microbe, clones, microcosm, next morning, elegant method, michigan state university, flask

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  Resistant Bacteria Stick Around for a Long Time [Mike the Mad Biologist] Well, it's a better title than " Duration of Stool Colonization in Patients Infected with Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae ." What the authors were looking at is how long E. coli and K... Posted Apr 15 2008, 09:14 AM by ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Feeds Filed under: e coli, colonization, commensal, duration, spectrum, escherichia coli, resistance genes, densities, enzymes, beta lactamase, klebsiella