Biographical sketch

Richard E. Lenski

Education

1973-76	B.A., Oberlin College
1977-82	Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Positions

1982-85	Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1984	Visiting Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
1985-88	Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
1988-91	Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
1991-	Hannah Professor of Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University

Service

1988	Committee of the Public Affairs Office of the Ecological Society of America on environmental applications of genetically engineered organisms
1988-1989	National Research Council Committee on Scientific Evaluation of the Introduction of Genetically Modified Microorganisms and Plants into the Environment
1989-1997	Associate Editor, Theoretical Population Biology
1990-1992	Associate Editor, Evolution
1990-1996	National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences
1990-1996	National Research Council Board on Biology
1991-1993	Editorial Board, Microbial Ecology
1991-1999	Editorial Advisory Board, Molecular Ecology
1994	National Science Foundation Population Biology Review Panel
1995	Vice-chair, Gordon Research Conference on "Population Biology and Evolution of Microbes and their Accessory Elements"
1995-1998	Editorial Board, The American Naturalist
1996-1998	Council Member, Society for the Study of Evolution
1997	Co-chair, National Research Council Workshop on "Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases"
1999	Visiting Professor for Workshop on Experimental Evolution of Bacteria, Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis
1999	Visiting Professor for Summer Workshop on Evolutionary Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland

Awards

1976	Phi Beta Kappa
1977	National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
1978	Sigma Xi
1986	American Society of Naturalists President's Award for Best Paper in The American Naturalist (with B. R. Levin)
1988	National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator
1992	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1992	American Society of Naturalists President's Award for Best Paper in The American Naturalist (with M. R. Rose, S. C. Simpson and S. C. Tadler)
1996	John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
1997	Elected to Fellowship in American Academy of Microbiology
1998	Elected to Fellowship in American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1999	American Society for Microbiology, Division R Lectureship (Systematics and Evolution)