{"id":84232,"date":"2013-10-04T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T12:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=84232"},"modified":"2015-12-14T11:10:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T16:10:26","slug":"termite-trouble-blame-it-on-the-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/10\/termite-trouble-blame-it-on-the-microbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Termite Trouble? Blame it on the Microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84201\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Noll.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84201 img-responsive lazyload\" alt=\"Kenneth Noll, professor of molecular and cell biology.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Noll.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"223\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Noll.jpg 360w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Noll-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Noll-302x420.jpg 302w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Noll-72x100.jpg 72w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 160px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 160\/223;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenneth Noll, professor of molecular and cell biology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kenneth Noll, professor of molecular and cell biology, discusses why termites would not be a threat to your home without the help of microbes.<\/p>\n<p>Noll specializes in the study of thermophilic (heat-loving) microbes that live in high-temperature environments, such as hot springs and deep sea vents.<\/p>\n<p>To hear him, click <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/UConn-Termites.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His talk was first aired on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wamc.org\/programs\/academic-minute\" target=\"_blank\">WAMC<\/a>, the PBS station in Albany, N.Y., as an Academic Minute, and hosted in print by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/audio\/2013\/09\/25\/microbes-and-termite-digestion\"><em>Inside Higher Education<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to WAMC for the station\u2019s permission to post this spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molecular and cell biologist Kenneth Noll explains why termites would not be a threat to your home without the help of microbes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":84198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,1715,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-84232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas","category-community-impact","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 13:41:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84232"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107153,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84232\/revisions\/107153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/84198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84232"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=84232"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=84232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}