In this podcast, I talk to <a title="Susan Golden Faculty Page" href="http://biology.ucsd.edu/faculty/sgolden.html" target="_blank">Susan Golden</a>, the co-director of the <a href="http://ccb.ucsd.edu/" target="_blank">Center for Chronobiology</a> at the University of California at San Diego.
We talked about Golden's research into time--in particular, how living things know what time it is. While you may have heard of our own "body clock" that tracks the 24-hour cycle of the day, it turns out that some bacteria can tell time, too. Golden has discovered how evolution has produced a molecular clock inside microbes far more elegant than any manmade timepiece.
Additional Reading:
<div class="title"><a href="http://jb.asm.org/cgi/content/full/190/10/3738" target="_blank">Proteins Found in a CikA Interaction Assay Link the Circadian Clock, Metabolism, and Cell Division in Synechococcus elongatus</a>
<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/103/46/17468.abstract?cited-by=yes&legid=pnas;103/46/17468" target="_blank">Quinone sensign by the circadian input kinase of the cyanobacterial circadian clock</a>
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