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Bassler entered the University of California, Davis as a major in veterinary sciences, but focused on genetics and biochemistry and received a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry. Bassler worked for UC Davis biochemistry and molecular medicine professor Frederic Troy, who assigned her to a bacteria research project.
Bassler admits—and neither did the heavy emphasis on memorization in her anatomy classes. Instead, biochemistry and genetics became her gateways to solving biologi-cal puzzles. She found a mentor in UC Davis biochemistry and molecular medi-cine professor Fredrick Troy. He was working on two projects: one on bacte-rial carbohydrates and the ...
Bonnie L. Bassler. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Department of Molecular Biology 329 Lewis Thomas Laboratory Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544. E-Mail: bbassler@princeton.edu.
Oct 24, 2013 · Bassler: Back then there was a little piece of paper circulated with different possibilities for lab work. A professor named Frederic Troy in the medical school had two projects: one was on Epstein-Barr virus and cancer, and one was on E. coli.
- Ushma S. Neill
- 10.1172/JCI75027
- 2014
- J Clin Invest. 2014 Apr 1; 124(4): 1421-1422.
Apr 1, 2008 · She enrolled at the University of California (UC), Davis (Davis, CA) with the intention of majoring in veterinary sciences. However, dissection didn't mesh with her constitution—“I'd pass out,” Bassler admits—and neither did the heavy emphasis on memorization in her anatomy classes.
When I started college at the University of California at Davis, I wanted to be a vet, like my early mentors, but I dreaded anatomy demonstrations and memorizing names and locations of bones and muscles.
After graduating from UC Davis, Bassler crossed the country to attend graduate school at Johns Hopkins University, where she worked in the lab of biochemist Saul Roseman. For her thesis, she studied how the marine bacterium Vibrio furnissii adheres to and consumes the complex carbohydrates that form the shells of many marine organisms.
