Bonnie Bassler Quotes


I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for you, but it's memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there's a lot of blood and gore involved.


Citations

Bassler, Bonnie. "Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers: Bonnie Bassler." PBS NOVA, 28 Oct. 2009.

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Bonnie Bassler
Bonnie Bassler
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  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Scientist

Bonnie Lynn Bassler (born 1962) is an American molecular biologist who has researched chemical communication between bacteria known as quorum sensing, and contributed to the idea that disruption of chemical signaling can be used as an antimicrobial therapy. She is the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and her research focuses on bacterial quorum sensing, which is the cell-to-cell communication in bacteria.