Zachary D. Blount

Our lab is hiring!!
We are looking for a research assistant who will be involved with our experimental evolution studies on how stress affects population dynamics in E. coli.
Great opportunity for recent grads!
E-mail for more info and apply here:
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29.09.2025 14:11 — 👍 8    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

You're an excellent scientist, and I do mention you sometimes as an exemplar during some lessons. No worries, I just thought I would check, and I was largely in jest with the idea of using it in any case.

28.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice! Do I have permission to use one of these the next time I talk about you in a class?

28.09.2025 05:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Zack Blount stands at a podium in front of a large portrait of Jacques Monod.

Today, Dr. Zack Blount kicked off this semester's Works in Progress Seminar series with a talk about Jacques Monod entitled "The Paragon - Jacques Monod as Scientist, Hero, and Philosopher."

Join us each Mon., 12 - 1 pm in 1425 BPS to hear our grad students discuss their work.

08.09.2025 18:49 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

STEPS To It Announcing a new program, called STEPS, to simulate the dynamics of evolving microbial populations.

Excited to share new #program, STEPS, which can simulate #dynamics of the E. coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment (#LTEE) or other microbes in serial transfer regime.

telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/s...

STEPS developed by @devinmlake.bsky.social, Zachary Matson, Minako Izutsu, and me.

12.08.2025 15:53 — 👍 159    🔁 60    💬 4    📌 5

12 tiny worlds by Unexplainable If you went back 500 million years and re-ran evolution, would life be totally different today?

If you went back 500 million years and re-ran evolution, would life be totally different today?

MGI's Rich Lenski (@relenski.bsky.social) and Zack Blount (@zdblount.bsky.social) weigh in via this @vox.com podcast 12 tiny worlds:

megaphone.link/VMP6403302711

31.07.2025 18:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Looking into Wright's publication record, it looks like most of his published research was done with Jonathan Pruitt, a disgraced behavioral ecologist who lost his faculty job at McMaster for manipulating and fabricating data across many papers. I suspect that would be his real problem.

31.07.2025 18:04 — 👍 54    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0