Blake Wiedenheft, PhD

Blake Wiedenheft received his PhD in the joint laboratories of professors Mark Young and Trevor Douglas at the Thermal Biology Institute, where his work focused on the identification and isolation of viruses that infect microorganisms that thrive in boiling-acid (~80C, ~pH 3) environments. After completing his Ph.D. in 2007, Dr. Wiedenheft joined Jennifer Doudna’s lab at UC-Berkeley as a Life Sciences Fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Today, Dr. Wiedenheft is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology at Montana State University, were his research team aims to understand the evolutionary outcomes of genetic conflict.