Researcher

Bonnie Bassler

Profile

Institution

Princeton University

Field

Microbiology / Chemical Biology

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.

Industry Ties

Industry Ties

Quorum BiosciencesBioAtlaHoward Hughes Medical Institute

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Universities

• Princeton University