Bonnie’s Bacteria
Scientific American's Insights column a couple of months ago had a particularly interesting and entertaining profile of the work of Bonnie Bassler:
Scientific American: Talking Bacteria
Microbes seem to talk, listen and collaborate with one another--fodder for the truly paranoid. Bonnie L. Bassler has been eavesdropping and translating.
She's got lots of energy. She's pretty cute in that photo too.