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
RT @pgirguis: The NIH's literal mission: to prevent disease, to expand the knowledge base in medical and associated sciences, and to enhanc…
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RT @ProjectLincoln: Trump ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel their review panels on cancer research. If you or someone yo…
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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!
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RT @joeBondyDenomy: The link for the faculty position is now posted! Deadline is October 15th. Please share widely with talented scientists…
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@Bazzoid runs a lab on my floor @UCSF doing fascinating work on how genes get turned on and off #epigenetics in cells ranging from yeast to stem cells:
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Nice article on using CRISPR to engineering the microbiome:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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.
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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.
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Celebrate the holidays with more Science is Fun! Dr. Susan Fisher @UCSF explains the wonders of the placenta.
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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.
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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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A double-header out now with our amazing clinical collaborators @UCSFCancer @ErinVanBlarigan @SPiawah @ThanSKyaw looking at the microbiome in cancer survivors and with respect to health disparities
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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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RT @mbiojournal: Work by @PTurnbaugh @UCSF and colleagues published in #mBio shows how the gut environment controls bacterial degradation o…
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