Brendan Bohannan

Brendan J. M. Bohannan is a microbial and evolutionary biologist. He is a professor of Environmental Studies and Biology at the director of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution[1] at the University of Oregon.[2][3] He is a contributor to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[4] He is an Alec and Kay Keith Professor at the University of Oregon.[5] In 2019, along with colleagues Karen Guillemin, Judith Eisen and biophysicist Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Bohannan was awarded a $7.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to research the potential health benefits of Bacteria.[6] He is one of the world's experts on the microbes of the Amazon rain forest,[1] and was one of four speakers to participate in Cornell's Life Sciences Lecture Series in 2018–2019.[7] Before becoming a professor at the University of Oregon, Bohannan was an assistant professor of biological sciences at Stanford University.[8]