Trevor Bedford (virologist) explained
Trevor Bedford is an American computational virologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.[1]
Education and career
Bedford graduated with a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago in 2002 and obtained a Ph.D in Biology from Harvard University in 2008.[1]
In 2020, he posted on Twitter about the first known community transmission of COVID-19 in the United States. That action was later cited as one of the actions that helped galvanize a rapid response to Covid on a national scale.[2]
In September 2021, he received a 7-year $9 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Later that same month, he was named as part of that year's MacArthur Fellows Program class.[3]
Selected publications
- 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty407. Nextstrain: Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution. 2018. Hadfield. James. Megill. Colin. Bell. Sidney M.. Huddleston. John. Potter. Barney. Callender. Charlton. Sagulenko. Pavel. Bedford. Trevor. Neher. Richard A.. Bioinformatics. 34. 23. 4121–4123. 29790939. free. 6247931.
- 10.1056/NEJMsb2104756 . 8494465. SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Patients with Immunosuppression. 2021. Corey. Lawrence. Beyrer. Chris. Cohen. Myron S.. Michael. Nelson L.. Bedford. Trevor. Rolland. Morgane. New England Journal of Medicine. 385. 6. 562–566. 34347959. 236927966.
- 10.1002/jmv.27155. Specific allelic discrimination of N501Y and other SARS-CoV-2 mutations by DDPCR detects B.1.1.7 lineage in Washington State. 2021. Perchetti. Garrett A.. Zhu. Haiying. Mills. Margaret G.. Shrestha. Lasata. Wagner. Cassia. Bakhash. Shah Mohamed. Lin. Michelle J.. Xie. Hong. Huang. Meei-Li. Mathias. Patrick. Bedford. Trevor. Keith R. Jerome. Jerome. Keith R.. Alexander L. Greninger. Greninger. Alexander L.. Roychoudhury. Pavitra. Journal of Medical Virology. 93. 10. 5931–5941. 34170525. 8427099.
- 10.1126/science.abc0523. Cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Washington state. 2020. Bedford. Trevor. Alexander L. Greninger. Greninger. Alexander L.. Roychoudhury. Pavitra. Starita. Lea M.. Famulare. Michael. Huang. Meei-Li. Nalla. Arun. Pepper. Gregory. Reinhardt. Adam. Xie. Hong. Shrestha. Lasata. Nguyen. Truong N.. Adler. Amanda. Brandstetter. Elisabeth. Cho. Shari. Giroux. Danielle. Han. Peter D.. Fay. Kairsten. Frazar. Chris D.. Ilcisin. Misja. Lacombe. Kirsten. Lee. Jover. Kiavand. Anahita. Richardson. Matthew. Sibley. Thomas R.. Truong. Melissa. Wolf. Caitlin R.. Nickerson. Deborah A.. Rieder. Mark J.. Englund. Janet A.. Science. 370. 6516. 571–575. 32913002. 7810035. 1.
- 10.1038/s41586-021-03908-2. 8481122 . Emergence and expansion of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.526 after identification in New York. 2021. Annavajhala. Medini K.. Mohri. Hiroshi. Wang. Pengfei. Nair. Manoj. Zucker. Jason E.. Sheng. Zizhang. Gomez-Simmonds. Angela. Kelley. Anne L.. Tagliavia. Maya. Huang. Yaoxing. Bedford. Trevor. Ho. David D.. Uhlemann. Anne-Catrin. Nature. 597. 7878. 703–708. 34428777. 2021Natur.597..703A . 237292353.
- 10.1038/s41591-021-01302-z. 8549801 . Integration of genomic sequencing into the response to the Ebola virus outbreak in Nord Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2021. Kinganda-Lusamaki. Eddy. Black. Allison. Mukadi. Daniel B.. Hadfield. James. Mbala-Kingebeni. Placide. Pratt. Catherine B.. Aziza. Amuri. Diagne. Moussa M.. White. Bailey. Bisento. Nella. Nsunda. Bibiche. Akonga. Marceline. Faye. Martin. Faye. Ousmane. Edidi-Atani. Francois. Matondo-Kuamfumu. Meris. Mambu-Mbika. Fabrice. Bulabula. Junior. Di Paola. Nicholas. Pauthner. Matthias G.. Andersen. Kristian G.. Palacios. Gustavo. Delaporte. Eric. Sall. Amadou Alpha. Peeters. Martine. Wiley. Michael R.. Ahuka-Mundeke. Steve. Bedford. Trevor. Tamfum. Jean-Jacques Muyembe. Nature Medicine. 27. 4. 710–716. 33846610. 233222329.
Notes and References
- Web site: Trevor Bedford, Ph.D. . Fred Hutch . January 30, 2020 . September 28, 2021.
- Web site: Doughton . Sandi . 250,000 people now follow this Fred Hutch scientist on Twitter. We talk to this leading voice of the coronavirus pandemic . The Seattle Times . September 28, 2021 . June 1, 2020.
- News: McCarthy . Ellen . MacArthur will give 25 new fellows $625,000 each to pursue 'high-risk, high-reward' work . The Washington Post . September 28, 2021 . September 28, 2021.