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'''Bonnie Lynn Bassler''' (born 1962)<ref name=AAAS /> is an American [[Molecular biology|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.  She has researched cell-to-cell chemical communication in bacteria and discovered key insights into the mechanism by which bacteria communicate, known as [[quorum sensing]]. She has contributed to the idea that disruption of chemical signaling can be used as an antimicrobial therapy.<ref name="Ehrlich"/><ref name="HHMI"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://molbio.princeton.edu/people/bonnie-l-bassler|title=Bonnie L. Bassler |website= Princeton University |date=March 11, 2016}}</ref>  

Bassler has received numerous awards for her research, including the [[Princess of Asturias Award]] (2023), [[Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize]] (2021),<ref name="Ehrlich"/>   the [[Pearl Meister Greengard Prize]] (2016),<ref name="Greengard"/> the [[L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards|L'Oreal-UNESCO]] award (2012),<ref name="UN2011"/> the [[Richard Lounsbery Award]] (2011),<ref name="Lounsbery"/> the [[Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences]] (2009),<ref name="Wiley"/> and a [[MacArthur Fellowship]] (2002).<ref name="MacArthur Foundation"/>

She is an elected member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (as of 2006),<ref name="NAS">{{cite web |title=Bonnie L. Bassler |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20006085.html |website=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=September 17, 2021}}</ref> a [[Foreign Member of the Royal Society]] (as of 2012),<ref name="RoyalSociety">{{cite web
  | last = Staff
  | title = Professor Bonnie L. Bassler ForMemRS
  | publisher = [[The Royal Society]]
  | url = https://royalsociety.org/people/bonnie-bassler-11048/
  | access-date = October 21, 2012}}</ref> a former president of the [[American Society for Microbiology]] (2011)<ref name="ASM"/> and served on the [[National Science Board]] with a term expiring May 10, 2016.<ref name="NSB2011">{{cite news |title=Obama to nominate Princeton's Bassler for National Science Board |url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2011/10/21/obama-nominate-princetons-bassler-national-science-board |access-date=September 17, 2021 |work=Princeton University |date=October 21, 2011}}</ref><ref name="DD2012">{{cite journal |title=Daily Digest |journal=Congressional Record |date=April 26, 2012 |volume=158 |issue=61 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2012-04-26/html/CREC-2012-04-26-pt1-PgD408.htm |access-date=September 17, 2021}}</ref> She was an [[editor-in-chief|editor]] of the ''[[Annual Review of Genetics]]'' from 2012 to 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=CO-EDITORS OF THE ANNUAL REVIEW OF GENETICS – VOLUME 46, 2012 |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/db/directory?2012,genet |website=Annual Reviews |access-date=July 29, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=EDITOR OF THE ANNUAL REVIEW OF GENETICS – VOLUME 51, 2017 |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/db/directory?2017,genet |website=Annual Reviews |access-date=July 29, 2021}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Bassler was born in Chicago and raised in [[Danville, California]].<ref name="Farooq"/> She began her career in science at 13 "as a veterinarian's assistant at the Miami Zoo and later at a local dog and cat clinic."<ref name="Autobiography">{{cite web |title=Autobiography of Bonnie L Bassler  |url=https://www.shawprize.org/prizes-and-laureates/life-science-and-medicine/2015/autobiography-of-bonnie-l-bassler |website=The Shaw Prize |access-date=February 1, 2022 |language=en}}</ref>  

Bassler entered the [[University of California, Davis]] as a major in veterinary sciences, but focused on [[genetics]] and [[biochemistry]] and received a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry. Bassler worked for UC Davis biochemistry and molecular medicine professor Frederic Troy, who assigned her to a bacteria research project. Within this project, Bassler characterized an enzyme in E. coli which cleaved sugars from various membrane glycoproteins. Bassler has stated that [[prokaryotes]] are "the perfect creatures to work on."<ref name="Farooq"/>  Bassler attended  [[Johns Hopkins University]] and received a PhD in biochemistry in 1990.<ref name="Patch">{{cite news |title=L'Oreal-UNESCO Names Professor Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University, For Women in Science 2012 Laureate for North America |url=https://patch.com/new-jersey/princeton/an--loreal-unesco-names-professor-bonnie-bassler-prin7b311f0a9f |access-date=February 2, 2022 |work=Princeton, New Jersey Patch |date=April 13, 2012 |language=en}}</ref>

Her postdoctoral research was conducted at the [[Agouron Institute]] in [[La Jolla, California]] where she worked with [[Michael R. Silverman]] from 1990 to 1994.<ref name="Farooq">{{Cite journal| last=Ahmed |first=Farooq |date=April 1, 2008 |title=Profile of Bonnie L. Bassler |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=105 |issue=13 |pages=4969–4971 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0705870105 |issn=0027-8424 |pmid=18362352 |pmc=2278219 |bibcode=2008PNAS..105.4969A |doi-access=free}}</ref> 
Silverman was the first to discover [[quorum sensing]], by studying the marine bacterium ''[[Vibrio fischeri]]''.  The glow-in-the-dark bacteria communicate chemically about their numbers and only give off light when a cohort is large enough to create an effective light source.  Bassler determined further that bacteria are "multilingual" and use  multiple chemical signal molecules to communicate with each other.<ref name="Ehrlich"/>

Since then, Bassler has also shown that bacteria use quorum sensing to differentiate self and other, a trait previously  thought to be limited to more highly evolved organisms.  Bassler has shown that viruses and host cells (such as human cells) as well as bacteria, use quorum sensing, and that the virulence of pathogenic bacteria is in part a result of quorum sensing. Bassler has developed anti-quorum-sensing strategies that, in animal models, halt infection from bacterial pathogens of global significance.<ref name="Ehrlich"/><ref name="HHMI">{{cite web|title=Bonnie L. Bassler, Ph.D.|url=http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/bassler_bio.html|work=Howard Hughes Medical Institute|access-date=May 20, 2011|archive-date=May 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516233426/http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/bassler_bio.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Schauder | first1 = S. | last2 = Bassler | first2 = B. L. | title = The languages of bacteria | doi = 10.1101/gad.899601 | journal = Genes & Development | volume = 15 | issue = 12 | pages = 1468–80 | year = 2001 | pmid =  11410527| doi-access = free }}</ref>  

In 1994, Bassler joined the Princeton faculty. She is currently the chair of the department of molecular biology and the Squibb Professor in molecular biology.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bonnie Bassler |url=https://www.broadinstitute.org/bios/bonnie-bassler |website=Broad Institute |access-date=May 3, 2019 |language=en |date=March 20, 2018}}</ref>  Her lab at Princeton University researches quorum sensing, the process of cell-cell communication in bacteria.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Bassler Lab Research|url=https://scholar.princeton.edu/basslerlab/research|website=scholar.princeton.edu|language=en|access-date=May 2, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Hmelo">{{cite journal |last1=Hmelo |first1=Laura R. |title=Quorum Sensing in Marine Microbial Environments |journal=Annual Review of Marine Science |date=January 3, 2017 |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=257–281 |doi=10.1146/annurev-marine-010816-060656 |pmid=27814032 |bibcode=2017ARMS....9..257H |issn=1941-1405|doi-access=free }}</ref>

Bassler's exploration of the ways in which bacteria communicate and behave collectively can be seen as contributing to a paradigm shift in how scientists view the microbial world. Bassler's discoveries are said to "open new vistas in basic science, but are also of practical significance."<ref name="Gruber">{{Cite web|title=Bonnie Bassler receives Gruber Genetics Prize|url=https://molbio.princeton.edu/news/bonnie-bassler-receives-gruber-genetics-prize |date=February 7, 2020 |website=Princeton University |language=en|access-date=February 2, 2022}}</ref>  Bassler's research has contributed new and exciting strategies for treating bacterial disease.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bassler receives Gruber Genetics Prize for discoveries on how bacteria communicate |url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/02/07/bassler-receives-gruber-genetics-prize-discoveries-how-bacteria-communicate |access-date=February 2, 2022 |work=Princeton University |date=February 7, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> 
In 2002, the MacArthur Foundation awarded Bassler a fellowship in recognition of her contributions to the bacterial lexicon.<ref name="MacArthur Foundation">{{cite web|url=http://www.macfound.org/fellows/679/|title=Bonnie Bassler Molecular Biologist, Class of 2002 |website=MacArthur Foundation |date=2002}}</ref><ref name="Marks">{{Cite web |url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2002/09/25/biologist-bonnie-bassler-receives-macarthur-fellowship |author-first=Marilyn |author-last=Marks |title= Biologist Bonnie Bassler receives MacArthur Fellowship |date=September 25, 2002 |website=Princeton University News}}</ref>

== Research ==
[[File:Vibrio harveyi.webp|thumb | 200px | right | ''Vibrio harveyi'']]
During her postdoctoral research, Bassler experimented with genetic manipulation of bioluminescent genes in ''[[V. harveyi]]'' bacteria and discovered that this bacteria had multiple molecules for quorum sensing. She found that these bacteria use quorum sensing to turn on and off a large number of genes in response to communications from other bacteria. These communications and responses allow bacteria of the same species and of different species to cooperate in a similar manner to multi-cellular organisms. She extended this research in series of experiments leading to the discovery that [[boron]] binding is used as a co-factor in communication. Boron is found in abundance in the oceans where ''V. harveyi'' is found.<ref name="Farooq"/>

Bassler's lab focuses on intra- and inter-species communication, self versus non-self recognition, information transferring, and population level cooperation.  Research topics include: How bacteria distinguish self from other: ligand-receptor interactions, Dynamics: small RNA regulation of quorum sensing, Biofilms under flow and the public goods dilemma, Manipulation of quorum sensing on demand, and microbiome quorum sensing and inter-kingdom communication.<ref name=":1" />

==Awards and honors==
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* 2002 [[MacArthur Fellowship]]<ref name="MacArthur Foundation"/>
* 2004 Elected member of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.aaas.org/elected-fellows|title=Elected Fellows|date=October 21, 2016|work=AAAS – The World's Largest General Scientific Society|access-date=March 10, 2017}}</ref>
* 2006 [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="Farooq"/>
* 2007 Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B |url=https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/academy/multimedia/pdfs/publications/bookofmembers/ChapterB.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/academy/multimedia/pdfs/publications/bookofmembers/ChapterB.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=May 20, 2011}}</ref>
* 2008 Special Recognition from the [[World Cultural Council]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Special Recognitions 2008 |publisher= [[World Cultural Council]] |url=https://elle.vn/en/World_Cultural_Council-4642022468 |access-date=February 1, 2022 }}</ref>
* 2009 [[Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences]]<ref name="Wiley">{{Cite news|url=http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-49205.html|title=Eighth Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Awarded to Dr. Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-390061.html|title=Wiley Foundation Past winners}}</ref>
* 2010 [[USA Science and Engineering Festival#Nifty Fifty|USA Science and Engineering Festival's Nifty Fifty Speakers]], nominated by [[American Society for Microbiology]]<ref name="NiftyFifty">{{cite web
 |title=The Nifty Fifty (times 2)
 |publisher=[[USA Science and Engineering Festival]]
 |year=2010
 |url=http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs057/1102686599425/archive/1104566253315.html |access-date=February 1, 2022
}}</ref>
* 2010–2016 [[National Science Board]], nominated by President [[Barack Obama]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/members/former.jsp|title=National Science Board|website=National Science Board|access-date=March 10, 2017}}</ref>
* 2011 [[Richard Lounsbery Award]]<ref name="Lounsbery">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/richard-lounsbery-award.html |title=Richard Lounsbery Award |website=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=March 10, 2017}}</ref>
* 2011 [[L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science|L'Oréal-UNESCO]] For Women in Science Awards Laureate for North America<ref name="UN2011">{{cite web |title=UN and L'Oreal announce winners of women in science award |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2011/11/394372-un-and-loreal-announce-winners-women-science-award |website=United Nations News|access-date=February 1, 2022 |language=en |date=November 8, 2011}}</ref><ref name="NAS2011">{{cite web |title=Bassler Wins L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Award in Life Sciences |url=https://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11082011b |access-date=February 1, 2022 |website=National Academy of Sciences |date=November 8, 2011 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="L'Oréal">{{cite news |title=The 14th Annual L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science Honor Five Exceptional Women Who Move Science Forward |url=https://www.3blmedia.com/news/14th-annual-loreal-unesco-awards-women-science-honor-five-exceptional-women-who-move-science |access-date=February 1, 2022 |work=L'Oréal USA |date=November 8, 2011 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Kelly">{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Morgan |title=FACULTY AWARD: Bassler to receive L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award |url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2011/11/08/faculty-award-bassler-receive-loreal-unesco-women-science-award |access-date=February 1, 2022 |work=Princeton University |date=November 8, 2011 |language=en}}</ref>
* 2010–2011 President of the [[American Society for Microbiology]]<ref name="ASM">{{Cite web|url=https://lsc.org/support-us/the-genius-of-nj/bonnie-bassler  |title=  Bonnie Bassler; PhD |website=American Society for Microbiology |access-date=February 1, 2022}}</ref>
* 2012 Member in the [[American Philosophical Society]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/members|title=Members {{!}} American Philosophical Society|website=www.amphilsoc.org|access-date=March 10, 2017}}</ref>
* 2014 [[American Society for Microbiology]] EMD Millipore [[Alice C. Evans Award]]<ref name="Evans">{{cite news |title=Princeton's Dr Bonnie Bassler Receives 2014 Alice C. Evans Award |url=https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/princetons-dr-bonnie-bassler-receives-2014-alice-c-evans-award-205936 |access-date=February 1, 2022 |work=Genomics Research from Technology Networks |date=May 22, 2014 |language=en}}</ref>
* 2015 [[Shaw Prize]] in Life Science and Medicine<ref name="Shaw">{{cite news |title=The 2015 Prize in Life Science & Medicine Bonnie L. Bassler E. Peter Greenberg |url=https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/life-science-medicine/2015 |access-date=February 1, 2022 |work=The Shaw Prize |date=2015 |language=en}}</ref>
* 2016 The [[FASEB Excellence in Science Award]]<ref>{{cite web |title=FASEB 2016 Excellence in Science Award recipient announced |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/617774 |website=EurekAlert! |access-date=February 1, 2022|date=July 1, 2015 |language=en}}</ref>
* 2016 [[Pearl Meister Greengard Prize]]<ref name="Greengard">{{cite web |title=Bassler awarded Pearl Meister Greengard Prize |url=https://molbio.princeton.edu/news/bassler-awarded-pearl-meister-greengard-prize |website=Princeton University |access-date=February 1, 2022 |language=en |date=November 17, 2016}}</ref>
* 2016 Max Planck Research Award<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-fellow-bonnie-bassler-wins-2016-max-planck-research-award|title=AAAS Fellow Bonnie Bassler wins 2016 Max Planck Research Award|website=American Association for the Advancement of Science|access-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref>
* 2016 Elected member of the [[National Academy of Medicine]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://nam.edu/national-academy-of-medicine-elects-79-new-members/|title=National Academy of Medicine Elects 80 New Members – National Academy of Medicine|date=October 17, 2016|work=National Academy of Medicine|access-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref>
* 2018 [[Dickson Prize]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dicksonprize.pitt.edu/recipients/2018-bassler.php|title=2018 Dickson Prize Winner |last=Webteam|first=University of Pittsburgh |website=www.dicksonprize.pitt.edu |access-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref>
* 2018 [[Ernst Schering Prize]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Ernst Schering Prize 2018 goes to Bonnie L. Bassler |url=https://scheringstiftung.de/en/presse/ernst-schering-preis-2018-fuer-bonnie-l-bassler/ |access-date=February 1, 2022 |work=Schering Stiftung |date=2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=People in the News 2018  |url=https://thevalleefoundation.org/news/people-news-2018 |website=The Vallee Foundation |access-date=February 1, 2022}}</ref>
* 2020 [[Genetics Society of America Medal]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://genestogenomes.org/congratulations-to-the-recipients-of-the-2020-gsa-awards/|title=Congratulations to the recipients of the 2020 GSA Awards!|publisher=Genetics Society of America|access-date=February 5, 2020|date=January 29, 2020}}</ref>
* 2020 [[Gruber Prize in Genetics]]<ref name="Gruber"/> 
* 2021 [[Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize]]<ref name="Ehrlich">{{cite news |title=Michael Silverman and Bonnie Bassler win 2021 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/564880 |access-date=February 1, 2022 |work=EurekAlert! |date=January 27, 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Mrusek 2021">{{cite web | last=Mrusek | first=Marco | title=Mikrobiologen mit Paul Ehrlich- und Ludwig Darmstaedter-Preis geehrt | website=AerzteZeitung.de | date=January 27, 2021 | url=https://www.aerztezeitung.de/Medizin/Mikrobiologen-mit-Paul-Ehrlich-und-Ludwig-Darmstaedter-Preis-geehrt-416606.html | language=de | access-date=January 27, 2021}}</ref>
* 2022 [[Wolf Prize in Chemistry]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://wolffund.org.il/2022/02/08/bonnie-l-bassler/ |title=Wolf Prize in Chemistry 2022 |access-date=February 9, 2022 |archive-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208174922/https://wolffund.org.il/2022/02/08/bonnie-l-bassler/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2022 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Johns Hopkins University<ref>{{cite web | url=https://commencement.jhu.edu/home/our-history/honorary-degrees-awarded/ | title=Honorary Degrees Awarded }}</ref> 
* 2023 [[Canada Gairdner International Award]]<ref>[https://www.gairdner.org/resource-hub/2023-canada-gairdner-award-winners-announced Canada Gairdner International Award 2023]</ref> 
* 2023 [[Princess of Asturias Awards]]<ref>[https://www.fpa.es/es/comunicacion/noticias/jeffrey-i-gordon-peter-greenberg-y-bonnie-l-bassler-premio-princesa-de-asturias-de-investigacion-cientifica-y-tecnica.html Princess of Asturias Awards 2023]</ref>
* 2023 [[Albany Medical Center Prize]]<ref>[https://www.albanymed.org/news/2023-albany-prize-awarded-to-three-groundbreaking-researchers/ Albany Medical Center Prize 2023]</ref>
* 2025 [[National Medal of Science]]<ref name="National Medal of Science">{{cite web | author=The White House | title=President Biden Honors Nation’s Leading Scientists, Technologists, and Innovators | website=The White House | date=3 January 2025 | url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/03/president-biden-honors-nations-leading-scientists-technologists-and-innovators/ | access-date=4 January 2025}}</ref>
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== Selected works ==
* {{cite journal |last1=Ng |first1=Wai-Leung |last2=Bassler |first2=Bonnie L. |title=Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Network Architectures |journal=Annual Review of Genetics |date=December 1, 2009 |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=197–222 |doi=10.1146/annurev-genet-102108-134304 |pmid=19686078 |pmc=4313539 |url=https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-genet-102108-134304  |issn=0066-4197}}
* {{Cite journal|last1=Bassler|first1=Bonnie L.|last2=Losick|first2=Richard|date=April 2006|title=Bacterially Speaking|journal=Cell|volume=125|issue=2|pages=237–246|doi=10.1016/j.cell.2006.04.001|pmid=16630813|s2cid=17056045|issn=0092-8674|doi-access=free}}
* {{Cite journal|last1=Camilli|first1=Andrew|last2=Bassler|first2=Bonnie L.|date=February 24, 2006|title=Bacterial Small-Molecule Signaling Pathways|journal=Science|volume=311|issue=5764|pages=1113–1116|doi=10.1126/science.1121357|issn=0036-8075|pmc=2776824|pmid=16497924|bibcode=2006Sci...311.1113C}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Waters |first1=Christopher M. |last2=Bassler |first2=Bonnie L. |title=Quorum sensing: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria |journal=Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology |date=November 1, 2005 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=319–346 |doi=10.1146/annurev.cellbio.21.012704.131001 |pmid=16212498 |url=https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.cellbio.21.012704.131001 |issn=1081-0706}}
* {{Cite journal|date=July 9, 2004|title=The Small RNA Chaperone Hfq and Multiple Small RNAs Control Quorum Sensing in Vibrio harveyi and Vibrio cholerae|journal=Cell|volume=118|issue=1|pages=69–82|doi=10.1016/j.cell.2004.06.009|pmid=15242645|issn=0092-8674|last1=Lenz|first1=Derrick H.|last2=Mok|first2=Kenny C.|last3=Lilley|first3=Brendan N.|last4=Kulkarni|first4=Rahul V.|last5=Wingreen|first5=Ned S.|last6=Bassler|first6=Bonnie L.|s2cid=18997499|doi-access=free}}
* {{Cite journal|last1=Chen|first1=Xin|last2=Schauder|first2=Stephan|last3=Potier|first3=Noelle|last4=Van Dorsselaer|first4=Alain|last5=Pelczer|first5=István|last6=Bassler|first6=Bonnie L.|last7=Hughson|first7=Frederick M.|date=January 2002|title=Structural identification of a bacterial quorum-sensing signal containing boron|journal=Nature|volume=415|issue=6871|pages=545–549|doi=10.1038/415545a|pmid=11823863|s2cid=4334017|issn=0028-0836}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Melissa B. |last2=Bassler |first2=Bonnie L. |title=Quorum Sensing in Bacteria |journal=Annual Review of Microbiology |date=October 1, 2001 |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=165–199 |doi=10.1146/annurev.micro.55.1.165 |pmid=11544353 |url=https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.micro.55.1.165 |issn=0066-4227}}
* {{Cite journal|last1=Schauder|first1=Stephan|last2=Shokat|first2=Kevan|last3=Surette|first3=Michael G.|last4=Bassler|first4=Bonnie L.|date=December 21, 2001|title=The LuxS family of bacterial autoinducers: biosynthesis of a novel quorum-sensing signal molecule|journal=Molecular Microbiology|volume=41|issue=2|pages=463–476|doi=10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02532.x|pmid=11489131|s2cid=24852124|issn=0950-382X|doi-access=free}}
* {{Cite journal|last1=Surette|first1=Michael G.|last2=Miller|first2=Melissa B.|last3=Bassler|first3=Bonnie L.|date=February 16, 1999|title=Quorum sensing in Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, and Vibrio harveyi: A new family of genes responsible for autoinducer production|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=96|issue=4|pages=1639–1644|doi=10.1073/pnas.96.4.1639|issn=0027-8424|pmid=9990077|pmc=15544|bibcode=1999PNAS...96.1639S|doi-access=free}}
* {{Cite journal|last=Bassler|first=Bonnie L|date=December 1999|title=How bacteria talk to each other: regulation of gene expression by quorum sensing|journal=Current Opinion in Microbiology|volume=2|issue=6|pages=582–587|doi=10.1016/s1369-5274(99)00025-9|pmid=10607620|issn=1369-5274}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Bassler |first1=Bonnie L. |last2=Wright |first2=Miriam |last3=Silverman |first3=Michael R. |title=Multiple signalling systems controlling expression of luminescence in Vibrio harveyi : sequence and function of genes encoding a second sensory pathway |journal=Molecular Microbiology |date=July 1994 |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=273–286 |doi=10.1111/J.1365-2958.1994.Tb00422.X |pmid=7984107 |s2cid=39587138 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2958.1994.tb00422.x}}
* {{Cite journal|last1=Bassler|first1=Bonnie L.|last2=Wright|first2=Miriam|last3=Showalter|first3=Richard E.|last4=Silverman|first4=Michael R.|date=August 1993|title=Intercellular signalling in Vibrio harveyi: sequence and function of genes regulating expression of luminescence|journal=Molecular Microbiology|volume=9|issue=4|pages=773–786|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2958.1993.tb01737.x|pmid=8231809|s2cid=36357210|issn=0950-382X}}

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6061852 A Biologist's Listening Guide to Bacteria] -  [[All Things Considered]] interview
* [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3401/04.html Nova ''Science Now'' Profile: Bonnie Bassler]
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** TED Talk: [http://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate How bacteria "talk"] (TED2009)
*[https://www.ibiology.org/microbiology/quorum-sensing/ Bonnie Bassler Seminar: Cell-Cell Communication]
*[https://www.ibiology.org/microbiology/chemical-communication/ Bonnie Bassler Online Talk: Tiny Conspiracies]

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