MTS53 - Bonnie Bassler - The Bacterial Wiretap
Meet the Microbiologist · American Society for Microbiology
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Show Notes
In this podcast I talk to Bonnie Bassler, a professor at Princeton and the president-elect of the American Society for Microbiology.
Bassler studies the conversations that bacteria have, using chemicals instead of words, Her research is not only helping to reveal how bacteria work together to make us sick, but also how we might interrupt their dialogue in order to cure infections.
Related Projects:
Measurement of the copy number of the master quorum-sensing regulator of a bacterial cell.
Information processing and signal integration in bacterial quorum sensing.