In this podcast, I talk toSusan Golden, the co-director of theCenter for Chronobiology 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:Proteins Found in a CikA Interaction Assay Link the Circadian Clock, Metabolism, and Cell Division inSynechococcus elongatusQuinone sensign by the circadian input kinase of the cyanobacterial circadian clock
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