Brendan J. M. Bohannan is an American microbial and evolutionary biologist. He is a professor of Environmental Studies and

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at the director of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the

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. He is a contributor to the

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. He is an Alec and Kay Keith Professor at the University of Oregon. In 2019, along with colleagues Karen Guillemin, Judith Eisen and biophysicist Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Bohannan was awarded a $7.6 million grant from the

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to research the potential health benefits of

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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

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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 {{US-biologist-stub