LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A microbiologist at the University of Kansas has won a national award for his research into bacteria cells.

Joe Lutkenhaus, a distinguished professor of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology at Kansas, has been named one of three winners of Columbia University’s 2012 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.

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