Princeton's Bonnie Bassler receives $500,000 Gruber Genetics

(Yale University) The 2020 Gruber Genetics Prize is being awarded to geneticist Bonnie Bassler, Ph.D., of Princeton University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for her groundbreaking work on how bacteria 'talk' to each other using molecular 'languages.' This process is known as quorum sensing. Her discoveries have greatly expanded our understanding of the microbial world and opened up innovative approaches to promoting health and preventing disease.