# Bonnie Bassler

> Bonnie Bassler is the world's leading authority on quorum sensing — the chemical communication system that bacteria use to count their population and coordinate collective behaviors including biofilm formation and virulence. Her discovery that quorum sensing uses a universal inter-species signal molecule, autoinducer-2, opened new frameworks for microbial ecology and infection biology. Bassler's lab has translated these insights into anti-quorum-sensing compounds that disarm pathogens without killing them. She received a MacArthur Fellowship and was President of the American Society for Microbiology.

*Source: [https://selltoscientists.com/researchers/bonnie-bassler/](https://selltoscientists.com/researchers/bonnie-bassler/)*

**Institution:** Princeton University
**Field:** Microbiology / Chemical Biology
**H-index:** 103
**Publications:** 351
**Grants:** 42
**Patents:** 24
**ORCID:** `0000-0002-0043-746X`

## Industry collaborations

- Quorum Biosciences
- BioAtla
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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