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[1] at the University of Oregon.
[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.