Brendan Bohannan Associate Professor
bohannan@uoregon.edu
Office: 309 Pacific
Telephone: 541-346-4883
Lab: 308 Pacific
Telephone: 541-346-5279
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Brendan Bohannan
Associate Professor
Brendan Bohannan Associate Professor
Research Interests
The diversity of life has long fascinated biologists. Although biologists
know a great deal about the diversity of plants and animals, we know very
little about microbial diversity, despite the fact that microorganisms
comprise most of life's diversity.
Research in the Bohannan group is focused on the causes and consequences of
microbial biodiversity. Recent work includes studies of the spatial scaling
of bacterial biodiversity, the response of bacterial and archaeal
communities to environmental change, and the role of spatial structure in
the generation and maintenance of bacterial and viral diversity.
Prof. Bohannan is especially interested in promoting the integration of
microbial ecology into the general science of ecology.
Selected Publications
Green, J. L., B. J. M. Bohannan and R. J. Whitaker. 2008. Microbial biogeography: from taxonomy to traits. Science, in press.
Forde, S., J. Thompson and B. J. M. Bohannan. 2007. Gene flow reverses an
adaptive cline in a coevolving host-parasitoid interaction. American Naturalist 169: 794-801.
Avrahami, S. and B. J. M. Bohannan. 2007. Response of Nitrosospira sp.
AF-like ammonia-oxidizers to changes in temperature, soil moisture and
fertilizer concentration. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73:1166-1173.
Gagneux, S., C. Davis Long, P. M. Small, T. Van, G. Schoolnick, and B. J.
M. Bohannan. 2006. The competitive cost of antibiotic resistance in
*Mycobacterium tuberculosis*. Science 312: 1944-1946.
Kerr, B., C. Neuhauser, B. J. M. Bohannan, and A. M. Dean. 2006. Local
migration promotes competitive restraint in a host-pathogen 'tragedy of the
commons'. Nature 442:75-78.
Kramer, S., J. Reganold, B. J. M. Bohannan, and H. Mooney. 2006. Reduced
nitrate leaching and enhanced denitrifier activity and efficiency in
organically fertilized soils. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences (USA) 103: 4522-4527.