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Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Believing Come Days Difficult Glorious Hours Indeed Keep Long Matter Only Put Science Slow Those Very Who Will You

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Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Am Because Best Did Drives Everybody Experiment Filled First Going Good Honest Kind Lab Me Must Right Scientist Screwed Self-Doubt Soon Thought To Be Honest Up Who Wrong I Am

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I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Antibiotics Application Bacteria Could Create Deaf Easiest Either Help Help People Important Make Mute New People Study Tell Them Think Understand Why I Think

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I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and we plugged it into a database. And we immediately saw that this gene was in an amazing number of species of bacteria. It was a huge moment of realization.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Amazing Bacteria Database Day Found Gene Got Huge Immediately Like Moment Number Realization Remember Saw Species Yesterday I Remember

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It's a manic-depressive life. You run in here, you open your incubator, your experiment makes no sense, you think, 'I hate this job.' Then ten minutes later you think, 'Well, now, maybe I'll try this or I'll try that.' You do it because you know there will be an 'a-ha!' day.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Because Day Experiment Hate Here Job Know Later Life Makes Maybe Minutes No Sense Now Open Run Sense Ten Ten Minutes Then Think Try Well Will You Your

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Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Bacteria Cells Everything Higher Human Know Model More Organisms Than Times You

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Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every morning.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Bacteria Every Hundreds Like Live Morning Species Teeth Thousands Unbelievable Your

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By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.

~Bonnie Bassler

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I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out mysteries/puzzles that have to do with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Alive Allowed Bigger Could Day Every Every Day Figuring Lab Make Me Mystery Out Path Perfect Puzzle Realized Research Spend Us

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I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for you, but it's memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there's a lot of blood and gore involved.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Also Am Because Blood Bones Davis Gore Great Involved Like Lot Memorizing Muscles Profession Right Stuff Terrible Vet Wanted You I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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