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 Hutch Cancer 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)

Viral introductions and return to baseline sexual behaviors maintain low-level mpox incidence in Los Angeles County, USA, 2023-2024.
(2025 Mar 15)
medRxiv
Paredes MI, Liang C, Suen SC, Holloway IW, Garrigues JM, Green NM, Bedford T, Müller NF, Osmundson J
High-throughput neutralization measurements correlate strongly with evolutionary success of human influenza strains.
(2025 Mar 12)
bioRxiv
Kikawa C, Loes AN, Huddleston J, Figgins MD, Steinberg P, Griffiths T, Drapeau EM, Peck H, Barr IG, Englund JA, Hensley SE, Bedford T, Bloom JD
Fine-scale patterns of SARS-CoV-2 spread from identical pathogen sequences.
(2025 Apr)
Nature 640(8057): 176-185
Tran-Kiem C, Paredes MI, Perofsky AC, Frisbie LA, Xie H, Kong K, Weixler A, Greninger AL, Roychoudhury P, Peterson JM, Delgado A, Halstead H, MacKellar D, Dykema P, Gamboa L, Frazar CD, Ryke E, Stone J, Reinhart D, Starita L, Thibodeau A, Yun C, Aragona F, Black A, Viboud C, Bedford T
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
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