{"id":45031,"date":"2014-04-08T16:40:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T16:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/?p=45031"},"modified":"2014-04-10T19:24:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T19:24:42","slug":"stem-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/2014\/04\/08\/stem-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Bassler Visits Augsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/photo-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-45035\" alt=\"Bonnie Bassler at Chapel \" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/photo-4-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/photo-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/photo-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/04\/photo-4.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This week Augsburg&#8217;s students and faculty were honored to host two talks by molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University. She explained her ongoing research which focuses on how bacteria communicate by chemical means (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate\">watch her TED talk<\/a>) and also spoke about how breakthroughs in this area of biology may lead to new antibiotics and new methods to improve human health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Augsburg&#8217;s students and faculty were honored to host two talks by molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University. She explained her ongoing research which focuses on how bacteria communicate by chemical means (watch her TED talk) and also spoke about how breakthroughs in this area of biology may lead to new antibiotics and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45031"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45037,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45031\/revisions\/45037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}