Peter Turnbaugh, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
G.W. Hooper Research Foundation
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
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Research Summary
Impact of the human gut microbiome on pharmacology and nutrition
Mentorship Development

4/12/19  Acknowleding and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab (Parnassus)
5/2021 Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)

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Our lab is an interdisciplinary group of microbiome researchers committed to understanding host-associated microbes, reducing these complex microbial ecologies to molecular mechanism, and applying these lessons to improve the practice of medicine. We are currently focused on two major areas: pharmacology and nutrition. We use a variety of inter-disciplinary approaches ranging from the molecular (biochemistry and bacterial genetics) to the organismal (gnotobiotic mice, conventional animals, and human cohorts) to the ecological (synthetic microbial communities and metagenomic sequencing).

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