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Bonnie Lynn Bassler (born 1962) is an American molecular biologist; the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University; and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
Bonnie Bassler is a microbiologist and teacher who investigates the molecular mechanisms that bacteria use for communication and coordinating group behaviors. The process Bonnie studies is called quorum sensing.
Bonnie L. Bassler is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University.
Bassler and her students helped turn a harmless, bioluminescent bacterium into a star of scientific research—a model organism holding lessons about how all bacteria communicate.
Her inaugural article in PNAS shows that four small strands of RNA regulate quorum sensing and virulence, the abil-ity of a microorganism to cause disease, in Vibrio cholerae, the bacteria that caused cholera epidemics around the world (1).
Sep 12, 2006 · Bonnie Bassler's discovery about how bacteria talk to one another has led to a whole new field of research -- and maybe someday drugs that would be effective against all bacteria.
Jan 5, 2022 · Princeton geneticist Bonnie Bassler will receive the 2020 Gruber Genetics Prize for her pioneering work on intercellular bacterial communication. Her research has expanded our understanding of microbes and opened up new approaches to promoting health and preventing disease.
