Faculty

Trevor Bedford

Affiliate Professor, Epidemiology
Affiliate Professor, Genome Sciences


Education

PhD Biology, Harvard University, 2008
BA Biological Sciences, University of Chicago, 2002

Contact


Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Box M2-C200
Arnold Building Room M1-B861
1100 Fairview Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
WA

Bio

Trevor Bedford is an Assistant Member at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center affiliated with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division and with the Computational Biology Program.

Research Areas

Research Interests

Dr. Bedford works at the interface of evolution, epidemiology and immunology. His research applies computational and statistical methods to understand viral dynamics. He is interested in using pathogen sequence data to make detailed inferences of pathogen transmission patterns. Previous research has focused on understanding antigenic drift in influenza virus, geographic spread of Ebola and within-host evolution of HIV.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

SARS-CoV-2 Diversity and Transmission on a University Campus across Two Academic Years during the Pandemic.
(2025 Jan 3)
Clin Chem 71(1): 192-202
Casto AM, Paredes MI, Bennett JC, Luiten KG, Han PD, Gamboa LS, McDermot E, Gottlieb GS, Acker Z, Lo NK, McDonald D, McCaffrey KM, Figgins MD, Lockwood CM, Shendure J, Uyeki TM, Starita LM, Bedford T, Chu HY, Weil AA
Integrating dynamical modeling and phylogeographic inference to characterize global influenza circulation.
(2025 Jan)
PNAS Nexus 4(1): pgae561
Parino F, Gustani-Buss E, Bedford T, Suchard MA, Trovão NS, Rambaut A, Colizza V, Poletto C, Lemey P
Frequency dynamics predict viral fitness, antigenic relationships and epidemic growth.
(2024 Dec 3)
medRxiv
Figgins MD, Bedford T
Dimensionality reduction distills complex evolutionary relationships in seasonal influenza and SARS-CoV-2.
(2024)
Virus Evol 10(1): veae087
Nanduri S, Black A, Bedford T, Huddleston J
Clinical and Genomic Epidemiology of Coxsackievirus A21 and Enterovirus D68 in Homeless Shelters, King County, Washington, USA, 2019-2021.
(2024 Nov)
Emerg Infect Dis 30(11): 2250-2260
Cox SN, Casto AM, Franko NM, Chow EJ, Han PD, Gamboa L, Pfau B, Xie H, Kong K, Sereewit J, Rolfes MA, Mosites E, Uyeki TM, Greninger AL, Carone M, Shim MM, Bedford T, Shendure J, Boeckh M, Englund JA, Starita LM, Roychoudhury P, Chu HY
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