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Bonnie wins the 2023 Albany Prize!
Oct. 5, 2023

Bonnie was selected as one of the recipients of this year's Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. The prize was shared between Bonnie, Jeffrey I. Gordon of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Dennis L. Kasper of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. For more information, …

Congratulations to Bonnie for winning the Princess of Asturias Award from the Spanish Crown!
June 12, 2023

Bonnie has been selected as one of the recipient of the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. This award is…

Bonnie wins the 2023 Canada Gairdner International Award
March 30, 2023

Bonnie was chosen as a recipient of the 2023 Canada Gairdner International Award for "discoveries of how bacteria communicate with each other and surrounding non-bacterial cells, providing a new paradigm for how microbes behave and yielding novel avenues for therapeutics against…

Bonnie wins the Prestigious Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Feb. 9, 2022
Bonnie was one of three recipients of this year's Wolf Prize in Chemistry for her work "elucidating the role of chemical communication between bacteria." This prestgious prize is given to "outstanding scientists and artists from around the world, (regardless of nationality, race, colour, religion, sex or political views) for achievements in the…
Bonnie wins the Microbiology Society's Prize Medal
Dec. 15, 2021
Congratulations to Bonnie who was selected to receive this year's Microbiology Society's Prize Medal. For more information, click here. 
Congratulations to Olivia Duddy for receiving the prestigious Thomas J. Silhavy Award!
Nov. 5, 2021

Olivia Duddy received the 2021 Thomas J. Silhavy Award for outstanding graduate students in the Molecular Biology Department. Congratulations Olivia! Click here for more information. 

Drew Bridges receives Departmental Award for Achieving Great Science
May 3, 2021
Drew was selected as the recipient of the Awards for Achieving Great Science from the Molecular Biology Department. For more, click here…
Drew Bridges receives Damon Runyon-Dale F. Frey Award
March 18, 2021

Drew was named one of 15 recipients of the Damon Runyon-Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists. Click here for more information!

Bonnie wins 2021 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
Jan. 27, 2021
Bonnie, together with her post doctoral advisor, Michael Silverman, won the 2021 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize. For more, click
Bassler lab reflects on Princeton Art Museum's LIFE Magazine exhibition
July 22, 2020

In early Spring 2020, the Bassler team enjoyed a curator-led tour of the Princeton Art Museum's LIFE Magazine exhibition. They quickly realized the parallelisms between photojournalism and academic research. 

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