Associate Professor
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the G.W. Hooper Research Foundation at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also an Investigator in the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub. For the past 15 years, his research has focused on the metabolic activities performed by the trillions of microbes that colonize our adult bodies. Dr. Turnbaugh and his research group use metagenomics (culture-independent methods for microbial ecology) and gnotobiotics (germ-free and intentionally-colonized mice) to study the role of the gut microbiome in nutrition and pharmacology. He received a B.A. in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology from Whitman College and a Ph.D. in Microbial Genetics and Genomics from Washington University in Saint Louis. From 2010-2014 he was a Bauer Fellow in the FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University, where he established an independent research group prior to starting his faculty position at the University of California, San Francisco. Notable honors include the Kipnis Award in Biomedical Sciences, the Needleman Pharmacology Prize, the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, the Searle Scholars Award, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Disease Award.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
10:36 AM – 10:48 AM CT
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