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Ken Noll discusses the evolutionary process by which microbes inherit traits.

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Ken Noll.

WAMC Radio, a National Public Radio station out of Albany, produces daily Academic Minute spots in which professors speak for 90 seconds about their field of research and why it excites them. To date, several UConn faculty have been featured on WAMC, and their talks will run weekly on UConn Today. This week’s Academic Minute is by UConn professor Ken Noll of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

To listen to Noll speaking about his specialty, horizontal gene transfer, click here.
The Academic Minute, hosted by philosopher and medical ethicist Lynn Pasquerella, the president of Mount Holyoke College, airs on WAMC Northeast Public Radio weekdays at 7:37 a.m. and 3:56 p.m.

Thanks to WAMC for the station’s permission to post these spots.

Other UConn Academic Minutes:

Why the Sky is Blue

Heat-loving Microbes Turn Waste into Energy

Microwave Ovens a Boon in the Lab

Saving Energy, Reducing Waste

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