Colbert is now obsessed with Microbes

Yes that is right, Colbert is now obsessed with Microbes. He has started a new report … “The Microbe Beat”. On this first one, Colbert discusses Martian Microbes, Penicillin and other microbial things. This is perhaps the greatest coup for getting microbes the recognition they deserve since, well, since ever. Please make this the most watched Colbert video ever.

Thanks to my PhD student/employee Jenna Morgan for pointing this out.

http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml

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This is from the “Tree of Life Blog”
of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
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Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis

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