Bonnie Bassler

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763 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 20 Jul

Bonnie Bassler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Thanks for having me, Sean.

I'm delighted.

As I'm sure you've guessed, no, that would be a hard no.

No, it was an accident.

When I went to college, I thought I wanted to be a vet.

Because I like animals.

I like nature.

And so I started on that curriculum.

But it turned out I don't like gore at all.

I like live animals.

So that didn't last very long.

But what was lucky is I was taking biology classes and biochemistry classes.

And I loved the curriculum.

But I didn't know what one could do with that.

And I liked my lab classes.

So I went to a professor and asked if I could work in his lab.

Thought I would try that.

And he did let me.

And he had two projects, a cancer project and a bacterial project.

And of course, I was 19 years old.

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