Bohannan Research Group

Current group members

Brendan Bohannan
Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology,
Research Group Leader
Ph.D., Michigan State University; post-doctoral study, University of Chicago.
Brendan joined the University of Oregon faculty in 2006, after 9 years on the Stanford University faculty. He is fascinated with the diversity of microbial life, and the interactions between humans and microbes.

Erica Hartmann
Post-Doctoral Fellow (BioBE Center)
Ph.D. Arizona State University
Erica is studying the public health implications of building design and operation.

Cathy Robinson
Post-Doctoral Fellow (META Center)
Ph.D. Michigan State University
Cathy is studying the interactions between gut microbes and the host immune system.

Annah Rolig
Post-Doctoral Fellow (META Center)
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz
Annah is studying the interactions between gut microbes and the host immune system.

Ashley Bateman
Ph.D. student
B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ashley is investigating the dispersal ecology and population dynamics of the microbial communities that live on human skin.

Adam Burns
Ph.D. student
B.S., University of Oregon
Adam is investigating the assembly of microbial communities associated with animal hosts, using theory and principles from community ecology.

Felipe Campos Cerda
Ph.D. student
M.S., National Autonomous University of Mexico
Felipe is interested in the interactions between cavity nesting birds and their associated microbes.

Jarrett Lebov
Ph.D. student
B.S., University of Colorado
Jarrett is interested in experimental evolution using host-microbe systems.

Steven McAllister
Ph.D. student
B. S., University of Oregon
Steve is studying the microbial ecology of methanogens. He his coadvised by Scott Bridgham and Qusheng Jin.

Kyle Meyer
Ph.D. student
M.S., University of Auckland
Kyle is interested in how environmental factors and land use change shape microbial communities.

Lucas Nebert
Ph.D. student
M.S., University of Wageningen
Lucas is interested in the ecology of plant-associated microbes.

Keaton Stagaman
Ph.D. student
B.S. University of California, Santa Cruz
Keaton is interested in within-host microbial ecology, as well as coevolution between microbes and the host immune system.  He is coadvised by Karen Guillimen.

Robert Steury
Ph.D. student
B.S. University of Oregon
Robert is interested in microbial community ecology.


Alumni

Grads

Elizabeth Perry (Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center)
Rebecca Mueller (LANL)
Zac Stephens (University of Utah)
J. R. Giska (Oregon State University)
Karen Carney (U. S. Agency for International Development)
Clara Davis (Veteran’s Administration Hospital)
Christine Jessup (NOAA)
Sasha Kramer (Stanford University)
Claire Horner-Devine (University of Washington)
Ben Kerr (University of Washington)

Post-docs

James Meadow (Phylagen, Inc.)
Ronzhong Ye (UC Davis)
Lena Fevat (CEFAS)
Sharon Avrahami (Technion, Israel)
Adrian Barbrook (University of Cambridge, UK)
Kathryn Docherty, (Wester Michigan University)
 Samantha Forde (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Hans-Peter Horz (Aachen University, Germany)
Jennifer Hughes Martiny (University of California, Irvine)
Klaus Nuesslein (University of Massachusetts)

Technicians

Adam Altrichter (Second Genome, Inc.)
Evan Jones (Albert Einstein Hospital)