A Chemical Language that Enables Communication
Between Diverse Organisms
Professor Bonnie Bassler was the featured speaker for the 2025 TNQ
Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences. A Wolf Prize and Canada
Gairdner Award laureate, she is a renowned molecular biologist at
Princeton University, best known for her groundbreaking work in
bacterial quorum sensing—how bacteria coordinate behaviour through
chemical signalling.
The title of her lecture was ‘A Chemical Language that Enables
Communication Between Diverse Organisms’.
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