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MTS53 - Bonnie Bassler - The Bacterial Wiretap

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Created on Thursday, 01 July 2010 15:16

Written by Carl Zimmer

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.
• Direct photosynthetic recycling of carbon dioxide to isobutyraldehyde

Download: mp3 (37 min | 34 megs)