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[Oct. 24-25, 2020] Giving a talk at the Association for College and University Biology Educators annual conference.
[Sept 24, 2020] New essay on Preprints.org: Burmeister, A.R., Dickinson K., and Graham M. CUREs During and Beyond COVID-19. In review. Available as a preprint at https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202009.0587/v1
[Sept 22, 2020] Accepted to Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education: Roush and Burmeister. COVID-19 and the Central Dogma: an activity to improve student learning and engagement
[Aug. 12, 2020] Lead a Sandbox Session on "COVID-19 and Scientific Literacy" at the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action Annual Congress. Online Meeting.
[June 24, 2020] Accepted to Current Biology: Trading-off and Trading-up in the World of Bacteria-Phage Evolution. Here we explore Darwinian demons among the microbes.
[May 18, 2020] Our new open access work in PNAS today asks: Might viruses do some good in the world? We show that phage selection can alter antibiotic resistance, although it's not as simple as we first thought: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/05/15/1919888117.
[April 28, 2020] Congrats to my mentees Connie Tian and Mango Lambo on their Yale First-Year Undergraduate Research Fellowships!
[Mar 30, 2020] ASM Microbe has been moved from Chicago to the web: I'm Working on the Planning Committee to develop our alternative program.
[Nov. 7-8, 2019] "Microbiology into the Future!" Giving a talk at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Branch of ASM.
[Nov. 1, 2019] I'll be giving a seminar on my new work on tradeoff systems in the Ralph M. Parson Laboratory Seminar Series at MIT.
[Aug 16-18] At the ASM Microbe planning meeting in Chicago -- Already getting the EEB track ready for Microbe 2020!
[July 6-12] Chairing the Gordon Research Seminar in Microbial Population Biology before the main GRC in Andover, NH.
[June 20-23] At ASM's Microbe conference in San Francisco -- stop by poster #EEB-509 on Friday (11-12, 4-5) to hear about the latest on phage resistance tradeoffs!
[May 2, 2019] My 14 CURE students present their "Final Exams" as a poster session of their course research projects. OML (165 Prospect St New Haven), 2-5pm. Snacks provided and the public is welcome!
[April 30, 2019] My undergrad mentees Adam Lessing and Amanda Weng present their senior thesis research at the Yale EEB Senior Symposium -- great work on antibiotic resistance, phage resistance, and novel phage characterization.
[January 2019] Awarded NIH R21 (co-PIs Turner and Burmeister) for my work on antibiotic resistance!
[Oct 25, 2018] Giving a talk on evolutionary tradeoffs at the University of Minnesota Biotechnology Institute (St. Paul, MN)
[Oct 20, 2018] Leading a workshop on Inquiry- and Research-Based Courses at the Association of College and University College Educators (ACUBE) annual meeting in Milwaukee, WI.
[Sept. 28, 2018] Giving a workshop on Course Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) at Southern Connecticut State University's Scientific Teaching Forum in New Haven, CT.
[Aug. 18-23, 2018] Presenting on Horizontal Gene Transfer at the annual Evolution Conference in Montpellier, France.
[Aug. 7-10, 2018] Leading a Sandbox Session on Evolutionary Tradeoffs at the annual BEACON Congress in East Lansing, MI.
[July 26-29, 2018] Attending my first American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators meeting! Giving a talk on Saturday about student learning and the Central Dogma.
[June 11, 2018] Completed the Yale University Certificate in College Teaching Preparation. Thanks to everyone at the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning and CIRTL!
[June 2018] Undergraduate mentees Abigail Fortier and Adam Lessing join me in the Turner Lab for undergraduate summer research projects.
[May 11, 2018] Presented a talk "Evolution of phage resistance at the cost of antibiotic resistance" at my first Phage Hunters of New England Meeting, City University of New York, NY.
[May 2018] Undergraduate mentee Abigail Fortier awarded a Yale First-Year Research Fellowship to join me in researching tradeoffs between phage resistance and antibiotic resistance.
[Jan. 08, 2018] New essay in the American Naturalist to celebrate the journal's 150th birthday! Specifying the Harsh Conditions of Life: Resource Competition and Predation in the 1970s, by AR Burmeister and RE Lenski.
[Dec. 8, 2017] Appointed as a Saybrook College Fellow at Yale University -- one of two first-ever postdocs granted to this roll involving undergraduate mentorship and community building.
[Oct. 13, 2017] Presenting a poster at at the annual ASM Region I Meeting at the University of Connecticut ** Update: Mentee Rose Bender (Yale College) won a poster prize in the undergraduate category **
[Aug. 2-4, 2017] I'll be at the annual BEACON Congress at Michigan State University
[July 8-14, 2017] I'll be at the Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Microbial Population Biology in Andover, NH.
[May 2-17, 2017] Visiting Dom Schneider's lab in Grenoble, France to work on a side project with phage lambda and learn how to delete genes in E. coli
[Apr. 23-27, 2017] Presenting a poster at the Centennial Celebration of Bacteriophage Research in Paris: New research on the evolution of generalized transduction.
[Jan. 1, 2017] Began my postdoc at Yale in the Turner Lab.
[Nov. 2, 2016] I'm defending my dissertation, and everyone is welcome! 10 am, Room 1425 Biomedical Physical Sciences, Michigan State University.
[Oct. 16-19, 2016] Presenting my new theory results at the first-ever joint retreats of the MSU and UM Microbiology Departments.
[Sept. 28, 2016] Published today, "Host coevolution alters the adaptive landscape of a virus" with Justin Meyer and my advisor Richard Lenski at Proceedings B. Freely accessible: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/283/1839/20161528.
[Sept. 21, 2016] New paper out today with the Parent Lab at MSU: Experimentally evolved phage Sf6 have genome reductions, Genome Biology and Evolution.
[August 12, 2016] Convening a symposium at the 2016 BEACON Congress: "Can We Evolution-Proof Antibiotics?" Answer: No, but we can try to slow it!
[June 17-22, 2016] I'll be at the Evolution Conference, presenting research on host resistance tradeoffs and coevolution.
[May 17, 2016] My awesome undergrad assistant Rachel Sullivan graduates from MSU, headed to Genetics Counseling School next fall. Congrats, Rachel!
[April 9-May 15] Visiting Dom Schneider's group in Grenoble, FR to present my science, work on genome editing, and hike in the Alps.
[April 8, 2016] MSU undergraduate Rachel Sullivan is presenting our work on virus evolution at MSU's UURAF program!
[Mar 28, 2016] Giving a Work In Progress Seminar to the Microbiology Department at Michigan State: 12pm 1425 BPS. "Evolution and Extinction in Experimental Communities of Bacteria and Phage."
[Dec 16, 2015] Paper published: At 60,000 generations, E. coli still gaining fitness!
[Nov 19, 2015] Giving the EEBB 2015 Distinguished Student Speaker Seminar at MSU: 3:30pm 118 Eppley Center.
[Nov 16, 2015] With Jim Smith, our microbial evolution education paper accepted to JMBE.
[Oct 16, 2015] Presenting a BEACON seminar on coevolution and fitness tradeoffs.
[Sep 24, 2015] My Graduate Committee approves my one-year-to-dissertation plan!
[Aug 17, 2015] Convening a symposium on evolution along the parasitism-mutualism continuum at the annual BEACON Congress.
[July 23, 2015] Giving a talk on host-phage interactions at the GRC on Microbial Population Biology.
[July 18, 2015] My Clinical Brief on horizontal gene transfer accepted to Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health.
[April 24, 2015] Submitted manuscript now available on bioRxiv: "Selection for Intermediate Genotypes Enables a Key Innovation in Phage Lambda."
[Apr 21, 2015] Receiving MSU's MMG Hsiung-Kimball Student Award and giving an Award Seminar
[Apr 12-16, 2015] Visiting Texas A&M and presenting a poster on microbial evolution education at the CIRTL forum.
[Mar 28-29, 2015] Do populations reach fitness peaks? Presenting at the Midwest Ecology & Evolution Conference.
[Mar 2, 2015] Lenski Lab ultra-mini-symposium: talks on experimental evolution at the Bad Bug Club series, 12:30p 1425 BPS, MSU.
[Feb 27, 2015] Presenting work on phage life history evolution at BEACON's Friday Seminar.
[Feb 25, 2015] Giving MSU's EEBB Colloquium talk!
[Feb 18, 2015] Honored with my first talk invitation by MSU's Microbiology Club! 6:30p, 1425 BPS, MSU.
[Nov 18, 2014] Virus evolution talk at MMG's GSW graduate meeting.
[Nov 05, 2014] Neat new video on our research featured @ MSU: http://msu.edu/gradfactor/alita.html#
[Aug 17-20 2014] Presenting a talk at the 2014 BEACON Congress.
[June 23, 2014] Presenting a talk at the Evolution 2014 meeting in Raleigh, NC. On the schedule here.
[Apr 25-27, 2014] Working an Experimental Evolution station at the US Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. If you're around, visit the BEACON Booth!
[Apr 25, 2014] Rachel Sullivan (my awesome undergraduate research assistant) won the MMG Department's Gloss Award. Congratulations, Rachel! Picture of us at the award ceremony posted here.
[Apr 14, 2014] Presented at the Microbiology Department's Bad Bug Club lunch seminar series: Perceptions, Explanations, and the Language of Microbial Evolution.
[Oct 22, 2013] My younger brother earns his G.E.D. Congrats to Mike!
[Oct 7, 2013] Successfully passed my Ph.D. preliminary exam!
[Aug 12-15, 2013] Evolution in Action BEACON Congress at Michigan State! MSU undergraduate Rachel Sullivan presented a poster and lightning talk on our virus life history trait evolution project. I presented a short research talk and education project poster.
[Jul 20-26, 2013] Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Microbial Population Biology. I'll be presenting a poster on host-parasite coevolution.
[June 21-25, 2013] Evolution Conference at Snowbird, Utah. I'll be presenting a poster and a short talk, and checking out the Rocky Mountain landscape!
[May 7-8, 2013] MSU is hosting a STEM Mini-Conference. I'll be co-presenting a poster, "Microbial Evolution in Action: From Classroom to Career."
[Dec 2012] Researchers at Work BEACON Blog Post: "A Tyrannosaurus and a Virus Walk into a Bar..."
[Sep 2012] Evolution 101 BEACON Blog Post: Host-Parasite Interactions, Of Mice and Cheese and Men and Zombies
[Sept 24, 2020] New essay on Preprints.org: Burmeister, A.R., Dickinson K., and Graham M. CUREs During and Beyond COVID-19. In review. Available as a preprint at https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202009.0587/v1
[Sept 22, 2020] Accepted to Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education: Roush and Burmeister. COVID-19 and the Central Dogma: an activity to improve student learning and engagement
[Aug. 12, 2020] Lead a Sandbox Session on "COVID-19 and Scientific Literacy" at the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action Annual Congress. Online Meeting.
[June 24, 2020] Accepted to Current Biology: Trading-off and Trading-up in the World of Bacteria-Phage Evolution. Here we explore Darwinian demons among the microbes.
[May 18, 2020] Our new open access work in PNAS today asks: Might viruses do some good in the world? We show that phage selection can alter antibiotic resistance, although it's not as simple as we first thought: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/05/15/1919888117.
[April 28, 2020] Congrats to my mentees Connie Tian and Mango Lambo on their Yale First-Year Undergraduate Research Fellowships!
[Mar 30, 2020] ASM Microbe has been moved from Chicago to the web: I'm Working on the Planning Committee to develop our alternative program.
[Nov. 7-8, 2019] "Microbiology into the Future!" Giving a talk at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Branch of ASM.
- My students, Leah Genth and Carli Roush, are giving posters, AND Carli is giving a student talk!
[Nov. 1, 2019] I'll be giving a seminar on my new work on tradeoff systems in the Ralph M. Parson Laboratory Seminar Series at MIT.
[Aug 16-18] At the ASM Microbe planning meeting in Chicago -- Already getting the EEB track ready for Microbe 2020!
[July 6-12] Chairing the Gordon Research Seminar in Microbial Population Biology before the main GRC in Andover, NH.
[June 20-23] At ASM's Microbe conference in San Francisco -- stop by poster #EEB-509 on Friday (11-12, 4-5) to hear about the latest on phage resistance tradeoffs!
[May 2, 2019] My 14 CURE students present their "Final Exams" as a poster session of their course research projects. OML (165 Prospect St New Haven), 2-5pm. Snacks provided and the public is welcome!
[April 30, 2019] My undergrad mentees Adam Lessing and Amanda Weng present their senior thesis research at the Yale EEB Senior Symposium -- great work on antibiotic resistance, phage resistance, and novel phage characterization.
[January 2019] Awarded NIH R21 (co-PIs Turner and Burmeister) for my work on antibiotic resistance!
[Oct 25, 2018] Giving a talk on evolutionary tradeoffs at the University of Minnesota Biotechnology Institute (St. Paul, MN)
[Oct 20, 2018] Leading a workshop on Inquiry- and Research-Based Courses at the Association of College and University College Educators (ACUBE) annual meeting in Milwaukee, WI.
[Sept. 28, 2018] Giving a workshop on Course Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) at Southern Connecticut State University's Scientific Teaching Forum in New Haven, CT.
[Aug. 18-23, 2018] Presenting on Horizontal Gene Transfer at the annual Evolution Conference in Montpellier, France.
[Aug. 7-10, 2018] Leading a Sandbox Session on Evolutionary Tradeoffs at the annual BEACON Congress in East Lansing, MI.
[July 26-29, 2018] Attending my first American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators meeting! Giving a talk on Saturday about student learning and the Central Dogma.
[June 11, 2018] Completed the Yale University Certificate in College Teaching Preparation. Thanks to everyone at the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning and CIRTL!
[June 2018] Undergraduate mentees Abigail Fortier and Adam Lessing join me in the Turner Lab for undergraduate summer research projects.
[May 11, 2018] Presented a talk "Evolution of phage resistance at the cost of antibiotic resistance" at my first Phage Hunters of New England Meeting, City University of New York, NY.
[May 2018] Undergraduate mentee Abigail Fortier awarded a Yale First-Year Research Fellowship to join me in researching tradeoffs between phage resistance and antibiotic resistance.
[Jan. 08, 2018] New essay in the American Naturalist to celebrate the journal's 150th birthday! Specifying the Harsh Conditions of Life: Resource Competition and Predation in the 1970s, by AR Burmeister and RE Lenski.
[Dec. 8, 2017] Appointed as a Saybrook College Fellow at Yale University -- one of two first-ever postdocs granted to this roll involving undergraduate mentorship and community building.
[Oct. 13, 2017] Presenting a poster at at the annual ASM Region I Meeting at the University of Connecticut ** Update: Mentee Rose Bender (Yale College) won a poster prize in the undergraduate category **
[Aug. 2-4, 2017] I'll be at the annual BEACON Congress at Michigan State University
[July 8-14, 2017] I'll be at the Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Microbial Population Biology in Andover, NH.
[May 2-17, 2017] Visiting Dom Schneider's lab in Grenoble, France to work on a side project with phage lambda and learn how to delete genes in E. coli
[Apr. 23-27, 2017] Presenting a poster at the Centennial Celebration of Bacteriophage Research in Paris: New research on the evolution of generalized transduction.
[Jan. 1, 2017] Began my postdoc at Yale in the Turner Lab.
[Nov. 2, 2016] I'm defending my dissertation, and everyone is welcome! 10 am, Room 1425 Biomedical Physical Sciences, Michigan State University.
[Oct. 16-19, 2016] Presenting my new theory results at the first-ever joint retreats of the MSU and UM Microbiology Departments.
[Sept. 28, 2016] Published today, "Host coevolution alters the adaptive landscape of a virus" with Justin Meyer and my advisor Richard Lenski at Proceedings B. Freely accessible: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/283/1839/20161528.
[Sept. 21, 2016] New paper out today with the Parent Lab at MSU: Experimentally evolved phage Sf6 have genome reductions, Genome Biology and Evolution.
[August 12, 2016] Convening a symposium at the 2016 BEACON Congress: "Can We Evolution-Proof Antibiotics?" Answer: No, but we can try to slow it!
[June 17-22, 2016] I'll be at the Evolution Conference, presenting research on host resistance tradeoffs and coevolution.
[May 17, 2016] My awesome undergrad assistant Rachel Sullivan graduates from MSU, headed to Genetics Counseling School next fall. Congrats, Rachel!
[April 9-May 15] Visiting Dom Schneider's group in Grenoble, FR to present my science, work on genome editing, and hike in the Alps.
[April 8, 2016] MSU undergraduate Rachel Sullivan is presenting our work on virus evolution at MSU's UURAF program!
[Mar 28, 2016] Giving a Work In Progress Seminar to the Microbiology Department at Michigan State: 12pm 1425 BPS. "Evolution and Extinction in Experimental Communities of Bacteria and Phage."
[Dec 16, 2015] Paper published: At 60,000 generations, E. coli still gaining fitness!
[Nov 19, 2015] Giving the EEBB 2015 Distinguished Student Speaker Seminar at MSU: 3:30pm 118 Eppley Center.
[Nov 16, 2015] With Jim Smith, our microbial evolution education paper accepted to JMBE.
[Oct 16, 2015] Presenting a BEACON seminar on coevolution and fitness tradeoffs.
[Sep 24, 2015] My Graduate Committee approves my one-year-to-dissertation plan!
[Aug 17, 2015] Convening a symposium on evolution along the parasitism-mutualism continuum at the annual BEACON Congress.
[July 23, 2015] Giving a talk on host-phage interactions at the GRC on Microbial Population Biology.
[July 18, 2015] My Clinical Brief on horizontal gene transfer accepted to Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health.
[April 24, 2015] Submitted manuscript now available on bioRxiv: "Selection for Intermediate Genotypes Enables a Key Innovation in Phage Lambda."
[Apr 21, 2015] Receiving MSU's MMG Hsiung-Kimball Student Award and giving an Award Seminar
[Apr 12-16, 2015] Visiting Texas A&M and presenting a poster on microbial evolution education at the CIRTL forum.
[Mar 28-29, 2015] Do populations reach fitness peaks? Presenting at the Midwest Ecology & Evolution Conference.
[Mar 2, 2015] Lenski Lab ultra-mini-symposium: talks on experimental evolution at the Bad Bug Club series, 12:30p 1425 BPS, MSU.
[Feb 27, 2015] Presenting work on phage life history evolution at BEACON's Friday Seminar.
[Feb 25, 2015] Giving MSU's EEBB Colloquium talk!
[Feb 18, 2015] Honored with my first talk invitation by MSU's Microbiology Club! 6:30p, 1425 BPS, MSU.
[Nov 18, 2014] Virus evolution talk at MMG's GSW graduate meeting.
[Nov 05, 2014] Neat new video on our research featured @ MSU: http://msu.edu/gradfactor/alita.html#
[Aug 17-20 2014] Presenting a talk at the 2014 BEACON Congress.
[June 23, 2014] Presenting a talk at the Evolution 2014 meeting in Raleigh, NC. On the schedule here.
[Apr 25-27, 2014] Working an Experimental Evolution station at the US Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. If you're around, visit the BEACON Booth!
[Apr 25, 2014] Rachel Sullivan (my awesome undergraduate research assistant) won the MMG Department's Gloss Award. Congratulations, Rachel! Picture of us at the award ceremony posted here.
[Apr 14, 2014] Presented at the Microbiology Department's Bad Bug Club lunch seminar series: Perceptions, Explanations, and the Language of Microbial Evolution.
[Oct 22, 2013] My younger brother earns his G.E.D. Congrats to Mike!
[Oct 7, 2013] Successfully passed my Ph.D. preliminary exam!
[Aug 12-15, 2013] Evolution in Action BEACON Congress at Michigan State! MSU undergraduate Rachel Sullivan presented a poster and lightning talk on our virus life history trait evolution project. I presented a short research talk and education project poster.
[Jul 20-26, 2013] Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Microbial Population Biology. I'll be presenting a poster on host-parasite coevolution.
[June 21-25, 2013] Evolution Conference at Snowbird, Utah. I'll be presenting a poster and a short talk, and checking out the Rocky Mountain landscape!
[May 7-8, 2013] MSU is hosting a STEM Mini-Conference. I'll be co-presenting a poster, "Microbial Evolution in Action: From Classroom to Career."
[Dec 2012] Researchers at Work BEACON Blog Post: "A Tyrannosaurus and a Virus Walk into a Bar..."
[Sep 2012] Evolution 101 BEACON Blog Post: Host-Parasite Interactions, Of Mice and Cheese and Men and Zombies