Peter Turnbaugh
@PTurnbaugh
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I'm a Professor at UCSF studying the impact of the human gut microbiome on pharmacology and nutrition. We also study phage now!
San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2014
The NIH's literal mission: to prevent disease, to expand the knowledge base in medical and associated sciences, and to enhance the nation's economic well-being, and ensure a continued high return on the public investment in research. #DividedWeFall
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Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
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Trump ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel their review panels on cancer research. If you or someone you know has cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or one of many countless illnesses that needs a cure — this could have devastating effects. https://t.co/XLMP5KQfGY
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ISO up-and-coming microbiome researchers who want to start a lab @UCSF in my home department. Beautiful location, great food, friendly collaborators @ucsfmicrobiome, brilliant graduate students - what more could you ask for?
The link for the faculty position is now posted! Deadline is October 15th. Please share widely with talented scientists in your network. Come join us at UCSF! https://t.co/Gccrtpl8ym
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The link for the faculty position is now posted! Deadline is October 15th. Please share widely with talented scientists in your network. Come join us at UCSF! https://t.co/Gccrtpl8ym
Search: Tenure track Faculty Position @UCSF in the Dept. of Micro and Immuno, with lab space at the Mission Bay campus! We seek a creative investigator with a strong independent research plan who will be a great mentor, colleague, and peer. Job ad soon. Assistant Prof level.
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Nice article on using CRISPR to engineering the microbiome:
the-scientist.com
Scientists have genetically modified isolated microbes for decades. Now, using CRISPR, they intend to target entire microbiomes.
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Stephen Hauser @UCSF is a #multiplesclerosis pioneer and author of "The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries.” On #SIF he shares a remarkable career inspired by a childhood at the boxing ring: https://t.co/edfrZ8m8Id
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Dr. Ron Krauss @UCSF @UCSFBenioffOAK is an expert in cholesterol – on #SIF he explains why nutrition is so complex and how diet advice is often oversimplified: https://t.co/edfrZ8m8Id
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This week on Science is Fun! syn bio prof @KoleRoybal @UCSF shares the exciting progress in immune cell therapies for cancer: https://t.co/edfrZ8m8Id
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This week I'm joined by Jay Levy @UCSFMedicine, who co-discovered HIV. He talks about this fascinating history and the current challenges in this area. https://t.co/edfrZ8m8Id
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This week on Science is Fun! Lewis Lanier @UCSFCancer details the discovery of a new type of immune cell dubbed the "natural killer cell” and why they're so unique and fascinating. https://t.co/edfrZ8m8Id
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Celebrate the holidays with more Science is Fun! Dr. Susan Fisher @UCSF explains the wonders of the placenta. https://t.co/edfrZ8m8Id
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Science is Fun! is back after a long hiatus. I interview my @UCSF neighbor, PI of @Mukherjee_Lab about how pathogenic bacteria are great tools to discover how human cells work. https://t.co/edfrZ8m8Id
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Congrats to @vescalante_5 whose paper dissecting the ways in which gut bacteria try to escape the off-target effects of a common statin is out today
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Host-targeted drugs have broad off-target effects on the human microbiota; we focused on the impact of the anti-cholesterol drug simvastatin on bacterial growth and gene expression. These results...
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A double-header out now with our amazing clinical collaborators @UCSFCancer @ErinVanBlarigan @SPiawah @ThanSKyaw looking at the microbiome in cancer survivors https://t.co/AUCKw4rmNG and with respect to health disparities https://t.co/20LiYXF0bY
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Flora has a microbiome too! Enjoy this inspired team-up with art by @Master_Amoeba and poem by @Science_Haikus #MicrobeArt2023 #InternationalMicroorganismDay
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Work by @PTurnbaugh @UCSF and colleagues published in #mBio shows how the gut environment controls bacterial degradation of the dyes in processed foods and drugs.
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This work has broad relevance due to the ubiquity of dyes containing azo bonds in food and drugs. We report that azo dyes can be degraded by human gut bacteria through both enzymatic and nonenzymatic...
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Congrats to @lindseympieper whose remarkable study on the gut bacterial degradation of food dyes and drugs is out now @mbiojournal
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This work has broad relevance due to the ubiquity of dyes containing azo bonds in food and drugs. We report that azo dyes can be degraded by human gut bacteria through both enzymatic and nonenzymatic...
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