Category:Richard Lenski (biologist)

**Richard Lenski**
	American evolutionary biologist
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Name in native language	Richard E. Lenski;
Date of birth	13 August 1956; Richard Eimer Lenski
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Oberlin College;
Doctoral student	Zachary Blount;
Occupation	biologist; microbiologist; evolutionary biologist; university teacher;
Employer	Michigan State University (1991–); University of California, Irvine (1985–1991); University of Massachusetts Amherst (postdoctoral researcher, 1982–1985); Dartmouth College (visiting assistant professor, 1984–1984);
Member of	National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
Field of work	evolutionary biology; microbiology; experimental biology;
Father	Gerhard Lenski;
Award received	Guggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences (2012); Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (2012); EMBO Membership;
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English: Richard Eimer Lenski (born August 13, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist, a MacArthur "genius" fellow, a Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Lenski is best known for his still ongoing long-term E. coli evolution experiment started in 1988, which has been instrumental in understanding the core processes of evolution, including mutation rates, clonal interference, antibiotic resistance, the evolution of novel traits, and speciation.