Brendan J. M. Bohannan is an American
microbial
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and
evolutionary biologist
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. He is a professor of
Environmental Studies
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and
Biology
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at the director of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution
at the
University of Oregon
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. He is a contributor to the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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. He is an Alec and Kay Keith Professor at the University of Oregon. In 2019, along with colleagues
Karen Guillemin
Karen Guillemin, Ph.D. is an American microbiologist known for her work on the role of bacteria in influencing animal development and health. She trained with renowned microbiologist Stanley Falkow, studying how the stomach bacterium ''Helicobact ...
, Judith Eisen and
biophysicist
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Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Bohannan was awarded a $7.6 million grant from the
National Institutes of Health
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to research the potential health benefits of
Bacteria
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. He is one of the world's experts on the microbes of the Amazon rain forest,
and was one of four speakers to participate in
Cornell's Life Sciences Lecture Series in 2018–2019. Before becoming a professor at the University of Oregon, Bohannan was an assistant professor of biological sciences at
Stanford University
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.
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Oregon faculty
American microbiologists
American evolutionary biologists
Place of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology
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