Brendan Bohannan^{NFM Lecture}
Research group leader at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon, US

Bohannan is Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology and, since 2006, research group leader at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon. He has his PhD from Michigan State University, postdoctoral from University of Chicago and faculty at Stanford. The research focus of the Bohannan group is on the causes and consequences of microbial biodiversity – to identify fundamental drivers of biodiversity, the effect of environmental change on microbial biodiversity and how such diversity is altered in humandominated environments.	Selected publications Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map JBH Martiny, BJM Bohannan, JH Brown, RK Colwell, JA Fuhrman, ... Nature Reviews Microbiology 4 (2), 102 The application of ecological theory toward an understanding of the human microbiome EK Costello, K Stagaman, L Dethlefsen, BJM Bohannan, DA Relman Science 336 (6086), 1255-1262 The Conceptual Ecology of the Human Microbiome N Morar, BJM Bohannan The Quarterly Review of Biology 94 (2), 149-175 Linking microbial communities to ecosystem functions: what we can learn from genotype-phenotype mapping in organisms AH Morris, KM Meyer, BJM Bohannan bioRxiv, 740373 Trade-offs and coexistence in microbial microcosms BJM Bohannan, B Kerr, CM Jessup, JB Hughes, G Sandvik Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 81 (1-4), 107-115 More info here!