Research
Like a game of tug-of-war, coevolution involves evolutionary responses among interacting populations. In the case of antagonistic coevolution, hosts are under selection to increase resistance to their parasites, and parasites face selection to evade host resistance. Resistance and evasion may have adaptive trade-offs with fit to the abiotic environment. For my Ph.D. work at Michigan State University, I am investigating benefits and costs associated with coevolutionary changes, researching how a virus and its host coevolve.
Like a game of tug-of-war, coevolution involves evolutionary responses among interacting populations. In the case of antagonistic coevolution, hosts are under selection to increase resistance to their parasites, and parasites face selection to evade host resistance. Resistance and evasion may have adaptive trade-offs with fit to the abiotic environment. For my Ph.D. work at Michigan State University, I am investigating benefits and costs associated with coevolutionary changes, researching how a virus and its host coevolve.
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Publications and manuscripts
Burmeister, A., Sullivan, R., and Lenski, R. Fitness costs and benefits of resistance to phage Lambda in experimentally evolved Escherichia coli. In Review.
Burmeister, A., Lenski, R., and Meyer, J. 2016. Host coevolution alters the adaptive landscape of a virus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283: 20161528; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1528 (open access)
Dover J., Burmeister A., Molineux I., and Parent K. 2016 Evolved populations of Shigella flexneri phage Sf6 acquire large deletions, altered genomic architecture, and faster life cycles. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8 2827-2840; DOI:10.1093/gbe/evw177 (open access)
Burmeister, A. and Smith, J. 2016. Evolution across the curriculum: Microbiology. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 17(2):252-260; DOI:10.1128/jmbe.v17i2.988 (open access)
Lenski, R. E., Wiser, M. J., Ribeck, N., Blount, Z. B., Nahum, J. R., Morris, J. J., Zaman, L., Turner, C. B., Wade, B. D., Maddamsetti, R., Burmeister, A. R., Baird, E. J., Bundy J., Grant, N. A., Card, K. J., Rowles, M., Weatherspoon, K., Papoulis, S. E., Sullivan, R., Clark, C., Mulka, J. S., and Hajela, N. 2015. Sustained fitness gains and variability in fitness trajectories in the long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 282: 20152292; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2292. (open access)
Burmeister, A. 2015. Horizontal Gene Transfer. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. (1): 193-194. DOI: 10.1093/emph/eov018. (open access)
Burmeister, A., Lenski, R., and Meyer, J. 2016. Host coevolution alters the adaptive landscape of a virus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283: 20161528; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1528 (open access)
Dover J., Burmeister A., Molineux I., and Parent K. 2016 Evolved populations of Shigella flexneri phage Sf6 acquire large deletions, altered genomic architecture, and faster life cycles. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8 2827-2840; DOI:10.1093/gbe/evw177 (open access)
Burmeister, A. and Smith, J. 2016. Evolution across the curriculum: Microbiology. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 17(2):252-260; DOI:10.1128/jmbe.v17i2.988 (open access)
Lenski, R. E., Wiser, M. J., Ribeck, N., Blount, Z. B., Nahum, J. R., Morris, J. J., Zaman, L., Turner, C. B., Wade, B. D., Maddamsetti, R., Burmeister, A. R., Baird, E. J., Bundy J., Grant, N. A., Card, K. J., Rowles, M., Weatherspoon, K., Papoulis, S. E., Sullivan, R., Clark, C., Mulka, J. S., and Hajela, N. 2015. Sustained fitness gains and variability in fitness trajectories in the long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 282: 20152292; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2292. (open access)
Burmeister, A. 2015. Horizontal Gene Transfer. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. (1): 193-194. DOI: 10.1093/emph/eov018. (open access)