Brian P. Hedlund, Ph.D.
University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV)
Brian P. Hedlund earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2000, and received his postdoctoral training with Karl Stetter at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He returned to the U.S. in 2003 as an assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) and has since been promoted to professor.
He and his collaborators have made significant contributions to our understanding of the structure and function of microbial communities in geothermal springs, the function of the nitrogen cycle at high temperature and the discovery of deep microbial lineages through cultivation, environmental genomics and experiments probing the activities of uncultivated microorganisms in nature. He has also contributed to microbial systematics as a researcher, an author of the SeqCode, a former member of Bergey’s Manual Trust and former editor for "Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria and Antonie van Leewenhoek."
He and his collaborators have made significant contributions to our understanding of the structure and function of microbial communities in geothermal springs, the function of the nitrogen cycle at high temperature and the discovery of deep microbial lineages through cultivation, environmental genomics and experiments probing the activities of uncultivated microorganisms in nature. He has also contributed to microbial systematics as a researcher, an author of the SeqCode, a former member of Bergey’s Manual Trust and former editor for "Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria and Antonie van Leewenhoek."