Devin M. Drown

Associate Professor

Education:

Ph.D. Biological Sciences, 2010, Washington State University

Bio

Devin Drown is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His research takes a One Health approach to address questions related to ecosystem change. His group has been using emerging next-generation sequencing tools to explore soil microbial communities of the Subarctic, understand the diversity of antibiotic resistance in disturbed environments, and for the detection of emerging pathogens. Over the past three years, he has been a project leader expanding genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Alaska. His research team has a commitment to broadening participation in biomedical related research. He uses Nanopore hackathons to enable undergraduates to analyze next-generation sequence data using bioinformatic pipelines to answer questions in genomics.

Selected Papers

Haan, T. J., Smith, L. K., DeRonde, S., House, E., Zidek, J., Puhak, D., Redlinger, M., Parker, J., Barnes, B. M., Burkhead, J. L., Knall, C., Bortz, E., Chen, J., & Drown, D. M. (2022). Pattern of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.519 emergence in Alaska. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 20662. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25373-1
Seitz, T. J., Schütte, U. M., & Drown, D. M. (2022). Unearthing Shifts in Microbial Communities Across a Soil Disturbance Gradient. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 781051. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.781051
Seitz, T. J., Schütte, U. M., & Drown, D. M. (2022). Unearthing Shifts in Microbial Communities Across a Soil Disturbance Gradient. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 781051. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.781051
Seitz, T. J., Schütte, U. M., & Drown, D. M. (2022). Unearthing Shifts in Microbial Communities Across a Soil Disturbance Gradient. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 781051. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.781051

Positions and Scientific Appointments

2021 – present Associate Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
2021 – present Faculty Director, Institute of Arctic Biology: Alaska Genomics Facility, Fairbanks, AK
2015 – 2021 Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
2010 – 2014 Postdocoral Fellow, Indiana University, Bloomingon, IN
2004 – 2010 PhD Student, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
2002 – 2004 Senior Research Technician, Boston University, Woods Hole, MA
2000 – 2002 Senior Network Engineer, Bantu, Inc, Washington, DC