# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bonnie-l-bassler
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:04:14.256Z

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name: "Bonnie L. Bassler"
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description: "Bonnie Lynn Bassler is an American 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."
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birthDate: "1962"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump