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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 Lynn Bassler, 1962 (age 60–61), Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- Todd Reichart
- United States
- Quorum sensing
Princeton geneticist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Bonnie Bassler helped lead a revolution in the way scientists think about bacteria. Her lab's work on quorum sensing ...
Oct 24, 2013 · Bassler: We decided to work on a free-living bacterium, Vibrio harveyi, which clearly would have quorum sensing. Our idea, initially, was that there would be more sensory inputs controlling bioluminescence than Silverman had found controlled bioluminescence in Vibrio fischeri , which lives as a symbiont in a rather controlled environment.
- Ushma S. Neill
- 10.1172/JCI75027
- 2014
- J Clin Invest. 2014 Apr 1; 124(4): 1421-1422.
Apr 8, 2009 · In 2002, bearing her microscope on a microbe that lives in the gut of fish, Bonnie Bassler isolated an elusive molecule called AI-2, which showed not only that almost all bacteria can communicate — but that they do so all the time. ( Watch her 2009 TEDTalk !)
Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and our understanding of ourselves.
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.
Bassler was born in Chicago, IL, but grew up in Danville, CA, due east of San Francisco. Intellectually curious from a young age, she enjoyed solving logic problems, putting puzzles together, and ‘‘trying to figure out the end of a. www.pnas.org cgi doi 10.1073 pnas.0705870105. Bonnie L. Bassler. book before you got to it,’’ she recalls.
