Zachary Blount
Zachary Blount | |
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Molecular Genetics | |
Institutions | Michigan State University The Beacon Center for the Study of Evolution in Action Kenyon College |
Thesis | The Evolution of a Key Innovation in an Experimental Population of Escherichia coli: A Tale of Opportunity, Contingency, and Co-Option. (2011) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Lenski |
Zachary D. Blount is an American evolutionary biologist best known for his work on the evolution of a key innovation, aerobic growth on citrate, in one of the twelve populations of the E. coli long-term evolution experiment. Blount is a research assistant professor working with Richard Lenski at Michigan State University. He was previously a postdoctoral research assistant for Lenski, and was a visiting assistant professor of biology at Kenyon College from 2018 to 2019.[1][2]
Early life and education
Zachary D. Blount was born and raised in
Research
In 2003, 15 years and 33,000 generations after Richard Lenski had set up the
Currently, Blount is further investigating how complex traits evolve, how novel traits impact ecology, and how speciation occurs in asexual populations based on models proposed by Fredrick Cohan of Wesleyan University.[11]
References
- ^ "Zachary D. Blount". www.kenyon.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
- ^ "Blount Lab". Blount Lab. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
- ^ "About Me". Blount Lab. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ^ "Evolving E. coli". Science News. 13 December 2012. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
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- ^ Holmes, Bob. "Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab". New Scientist. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
- ^ "BBC Knowledge - April 2009 - Evolution in Action". www.nxtbook.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ^ Holmes, Bob. "Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab". New Scientist. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ^ "News - Video - Postdoc researcher Zachary Blount discusses discovering the process of E. coli evolution. | NSF - National Science Foundation". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ^ "Bacterial speciation". ncse.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.