http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/07/01/bonnie-bassler-on-learning-to-speak-microbe/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Sat, 26 May 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/07/01/bonnie-bassler-on-learning-to-speak-microbe/comment-page-1/#comment-33939 Margaret Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:48:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=3092#comment-33939 You are so right, Interested Bystander. This woman is a gem! You are so right, Interested Bystander. This woman is a gem!

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/07/01/bonnie-bassler-on-learning-to-speak-microbe/comment-page-1/#comment-33907 interested bystander Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:19:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=3092#comment-33907 I just listened to the podcast and think that someone should clone Bonnie Bassler and send her into every science classroom from grade school to middle school to high school. Seriously she has exciting research to talk about and she is able to make it understandable. It makes me want to go back to college and study microbiology. I am a science loving layperson and I would gladly go to hear her in person. It sounds like learning to understand the complicated “chemical lexicon” of bacteria is leading to fascinating research that has implications for health care and also industry in learning how bacteria that are really “just a bag of liquid” can perform engineering feats such as molecular filtering and feedback loops with amplification etc. It sounds like she will be a wonderful spokesperson also in her role as president-elect of the American Society for Microbiology. She said she has two missions, one to continue her research and encourage the work of the young researchers working with her and two to tell people “not to be afraid of science” as it is filled with wonder. I wish her all the best with both missions. I just listened to the podcast and think that someone should clone Bonnie Bassler and send her into every science classroom from grade school to middle school to high school. Seriously she has exciting research to talk about and she is able to make it understandable. It makes me want to go back to college and study microbiology. I am a science loving layperson and I would gladly go to hear her in person. It sounds like learning to understand the complicated “chemical lexicon” of bacteria is leading to fascinating research that has implications for health care and also industry in learning how bacteria that are really “just a bag of liquid” can perform engineering feats such as molecular filtering and feedback loops with amplification etc.
It sounds like she will be a wonderful spokesperson also in her role as president-elect of the American Society for Microbiology. She said she has two missions, one to continue her research and encourage the work of the young researchers working with her and two to tell people “not to be afraid of science” as it is filled with wonder. I wish her all the best with both missions.

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