Bonnie Bassler
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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I wanted to cure cancer.
That sounded very important.
Still sounds very important.
But he put me on the bacterial project.
And at first I thought, oh, this is a trick.
It's like you have to prove that you're earnest and hardworking.
And then he'll take me off the fake project and put me on the important project.
Well, it's a few years later, Sean, as you know.
The truth is that in that undergraduate experience, I just found bacteria to be this fantastic model system, these stripped-down versions of us, if you will, that I could wrap my head around.
You're going to see during this hour, and you already know me, I'm very fast-talking, I'm very high-energy.
You could have a surprise in the incubator every eight hours.
You could spill it on the floor and it didn't really matter.
You could do it again the next day.
It just happened.
Beyond how fast you could do experiments and get results, I thought then it was the bacteria represented something that I could understand.
I still haven't figured it out, so that turned out not to be true.
But it just ended up being the right system for me to ask the kinds of questions that I like to ask.
And again, to long answer to your short question, it was such a remarkable lucky accident.
Yeah, and I do wonder, like, to that question, I think if they'd have put me on a fly project or, you know, maybe I would have loved that too, right?
Because what I love is making discoveries.
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