Bonnie Bassler
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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I did, I went to one of those physics meetings, and I've gone to the physics meetings in Aspen.
Yeah, I have, I'm card king, I'm the gold star.
Yeah, physicists wanna be, yeah.
It should be, it's the founding example.
So it is the founding example on which the quorum sensing field was built.
So remember, bacteria, not remember, that sounds, I don't mean to be, bacteria are invisible.
So if they're doing something together or something alone, how could you know?
You can't see them, you can't see their traits.
And so you can ask, how did quorum sensing get missed for the 500 years that we've known about bacteria?
It's because it's all invisible.
And so what was so remarkable is,
about how this field started is that it started in bioluminescent bacteria.
Bioluminescent bacteria are very common in the ocean.
They make blue light, fireflies make yellow light, blue light travels far in the water, so creatures in the ocean make blue and green and purple light.
And so almost everything in the ocean either makes or uses somebody else's light because you don't have to go very deep and there's no light.
So the selection, the evolutionary selection for bioluminescence is really high in the ocean, not so much on Earth.
And so anyway.
A fabulous scientist, sadly now deceased, Woody Hastings, these guys were all at Harvard and they used to love to hang out at Woods Hole, right?
And everything is twinkling and making light in the ocean.
And so he just loved bioluminescence, not corn sensing.
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