Professor Bonnie L. Bassler, PhD, has paved the way for a new, important research field in microbiology: intercellular bacterial communication, or so-called quorum sensing. Professor Bassler is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. She described the universal use of chemical communication among bacteria leading to a new paradigm of bacteria as interacting organisms.
For her outstanding research, Prof. Bonnie L. Bassler is awarded this year’s Ernst Schering Prize. She was nominated for the Ernst Schering Prize by Prof. Dr. Ned Wingreen, a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University. “Bonnie Bassler‘s groundbreaking basic research on bacterial communication spans biology, chemistry, and medicine – establishing a paradigm for brilliantly integrated science. She has been a leader throughout her career in establishing a dialogue between scientists and the greater society, and she does all this with a contagious enthusiasm for the rigorous practice and communication of science that spreads to all those around her. As one who has benefited from the energy and inspiration that radiates from her, I am personally thrilled and gratified that Bonnie Bassler is the newest recipient of the Ernst Schering Prize,” says Wingreen.
Prof. Dr. Kai Papenfort, head of the RNA-Microbiology group at LMU Munich and former postdoc of Bonnie Bassler, who will give the presentation speech at the award ceremony, says about Professor Bassler: “Bonnie Bassler’s research has revolutionized the study of microbiology and transformed the way in which we consider bacteria and the profound importance of their interactions in nature. Her discoveries pave the way to biological solutions to the world’s most pressing problems: food, health, energy, and the environment.”
September 27, 2018
Bonnie L. Bassler
Schulfarm Insel Scharfenberg, Berlin-Tegel (not open to the public)
September 27, 2018, 4–5:30 p.m.
Bonnie L. Bassler
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Campus North | Building 4 (Ostertaghaus)
Philippstr. 13 | 10115 Berlin
This public lecture is aimed at scientists and students and will be in English. | Registration is not required.
Award Ceremony 2018
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10117 Berlin
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