Hybrid Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, May 3, 2024
Bonnie Bassler, Ph.D.
Squibb Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Quorum Sensing Across Domains: from Viruses to Bacteria to Eukaryotes
The Norton Zonder Lecture
Recommended Readings:
Silpe, Justin E., Olivia P. Duddy, and Bonnie L. Bassler. “Natural and synthetic inhibitors of a phage-encoded quorum-sensing receptor affect phage–host dynamics in mixed bacterial communities.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.49 (2022): e2217813119.
Duddy, Olivia P., and Bonnie L. Bassler. “Quorum sensing across bacterial and viral domains.” PLoS pathogens 17.1 (2021): e1009074.
Mukherjee, Sampriti, and Bonnie L. Bassler. “Bacterial quorum sensing in complex and dynamically changing environments.” Nature Reviews Microbiology 17.6 (2019): 371-382.
Bassler, Bonnie L. “How bacteria “talk”.” TED, Feb. 2009, https://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_how_bacteria_talk.
Miller, Melissa B., and Bonnie L. Bassler. “Quorum sensing in bacteria.” Annual Reviews in Microbiology 55.1 (2001): 165-199.
