Brendan Bohannan

{{short description|American microbial and evolutionary biologist}}

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Brendan J. M. Bohannan is an American microbial and evolutionary biologist. He is a professor of Environmental Studies and Biology at the director of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution{{Cite web|url=https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/earths-last-unexplored-wilderness-your-very-own-home|title=Earth's Last Unexplored Wilderness: Your Very Own Home|website=Discover Magazine|language=en|access-date=2020-01-20}} at the University of Oregon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.science.org/content/author/brendan-j-m-bohannan|title=Brendan J. M. Bohannan|date=2015-06-11|website=Science {{!}} AAAS|language=en|access-date=2020-01-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-unexpected-microbes-break-down-our-bodies-after-death|title=Thousands of unexpected microbes break down our bodies after death|last=Pennisi|first=Elizabeth|author-link=Elizabeth Pennisi|date=2015-12-10|website=Science {{!}} AAAS|language=en|access-date=2020-01-20}} He is a contributor to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.{{Cite book|title=The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life|last=Quammen|first=David|publisher=Simon and Schuste|year=2019|isbn=978-1476776637|pages=410}} He is an Alec and Kay Keith Professor at the University of Oregon.{{Cite web|url=https://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-researchers-urge-changes-language-microbiome|title=UO researchers urge changes in the language of the microbiome|date=2019-07-11|website=Around the O|language=en|access-date=2020-01-20}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://around.uoregon.edu/content/multiyear-research-awards-grants-rose-70-percent-2018-19|title=Multiyear research awards, grants rose 70 percent in 2018-19|date=2019-10-21|website=Around the O|language=en|access-date=2020-01-20}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/09/new-lecture-series-features-transformative-life-scientists|title=New lecture series features transformative life scientists|website=Cornell Chronicle|language=en|access-date=2020-01-20}} Before becoming a professor at the University of Oregon, Bohannan was an assistant professor of biological sciences at Stanford University.{{Cite web|url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/february2/microbe-020205.html|title=Birds, butterflies and bacteria: The same law of biology appears to apply to all|last=Hines|first=Sandra|date=2005-02-02|website=Stanford University|language=en|access-date=2020-01-20}}