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Peter Turnbaugh, PhD

TitleAssistant Professor
SchoolUCSF School of Medicine
DepartmentMicrobiology and Immunology
Address513 Parnassus Ave
San Francisco CA 94143
Phone415-502-3237
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    1999National Merit Scholar
    2006  - 2009NSF Graduate Fellowship
    2009David Kipnis Award in Biomedical Sciences
    2010Philip Needleman Pharmacology Prize
    2015Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research
    2016Damon Runyon-Rachleff Cancer Innovator
    2016Searle Scholar

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    You are not alone - humans are each home to trillions of microbes that have a widespread impact on our physiology and predisposition to disease. Our lab studies the role of these microbes in two major areas, pharmacology and nutrition, with a current focus on the role of gut microbial metabolism in influencing the predisposition to and treatment of heart disease, cancer, and autoimmune disease. Our main two experimental approaches are gnotobiotics (germ-free and colonized mice) and metagenomics (culture-independent methods for studying microbial communities). We collaborate closely with other members of the rich UCSF microbiome community, including Michael Fischbach, Susan Lynch, and Katie Pollard.


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    Predicting and preventing drug metabolism by the human gut microbiome
    NIH/NHLBI R01HL122593Mar 1, 2016 - Feb 28, 2021
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Bokulich NA, Rideout JR, Mercurio WG, Shiffer A, Wolfe B, Maurice CF, Dutton RJ, Turnbaugh P, Knight R, Caporaso JG. mockrobiota: a Public Resource for Microbiome Bioinformatics Benchmarking. mSystems. 2016 Sep-Oct; 1(5). PMID: 27822553.
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    2. Nayak RR, Turnbaugh P. Mirror, mirror on the wall: which microbiomes will help heal them all? BMC Med. 2016; 14(1):72. PMID: 27146150.
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    3. Spanogiannopoulos P, Bess EN, Carmody RN, Turnbaugh P. The microbial pharmacists within us: a metagenomic view of xenobiotic metabolism. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2016 May; 14(5):273-87. PMID: 26972811.
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    4. Jumpertz von Schwartzenberg R, Turnbaugh P. Siri, What Should I Eat? Cell. 2015 Nov 19; 163(5):1051-2. PMID: 26590412.
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    5. Maurice CF, Cl Knowles S, Ladau J, Pollard KS, Fenton A, Pedersen AB, Turnbaugh P. Marked seasonal variation in the wild mouse gut microbiota. ISME J. 2015 Nov; 9(11):2423-34. PMID: 26023870; PMCID: PMC4611506.
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    6. David LA, Weil A, Ryan ET, Calderwood SB, Harris JB, Chowdhury F, Begum Y, Qadri F, LaRocque RC, Turnbaugh P. Gut microbial succession follows acute secretory diarrhea in humans. MBio. 2015; 6(3):e00381-15. PMID: 25991682; PMCID: PMC4442136.
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    7. Martínez-Del Campo A, Bodea S, Hamer HA, Marks JA, Haiser HJ, Turnbaugh P, Balskus EP. Characterization and detection of a widely distributed gene cluster that predicts anaerobic choline utilization by human gut bacteria. MBio. 2015; 6(2). PMID: 25873372; PMCID: PMC4453576.
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    8. Roopchand DE, Carmody RN, Kuhn P, Moskal K, Rojas-Silva P, Turnbaugh P, Raskin I. Dietary Polyphenols Promote Growth of the Gut Bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila and Attenuate High-Fat Diet-Induced Metabolic Syndrome. Diabetes. 2015 Aug; 64(8):2847-58. PMID: 25845659; PMCID: PMC4512228 [Available on 08/01/16].
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    9. Perron GG, Whyte L, Turnbaugh P, Goordial J, Hanage WP, Dantas G, Desai MM. Functional characterization of bacteria isolated from ancient arctic soil exposes diverse resistance mechanisms to modern antibiotics. PLoS One. 2015; 10(3):e0069533. PMID: 25807523; PMCID: PMC4373940.
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    10. Carmody RN, Gerber GK, Luevano JM, Gatti DM, Somes L, Svenson KL, Turnbaugh P. Diet dominates host genotype in shaping the murine gut microbiota. Cell Host Microbe. 2015 Jan 14; 17(1):72-84. PMID: 25532804; PMCID: PMC4297240 [Available on 01/14/16].
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    11. Pickard JM, Maurice CF, Kinnebrew MA, Abt MC, Schenten D, Golovkina TV, Bogatyrev SR, Ismagilov RF, Pamer EG, Turnbaugh P, Chervonsky AV. Rapid fucosylation of intestinal epithelium sustains host-commensal symbiosis in sickness. Nature. 2014 Oct 30; 514(7524):638-41. PMID: 25274297; PMCID: PMC4214913.
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    12. Patterson AD, Turnbaugh P. Microbial determinants of biochemical individuality and their impact on toxicology and pharmacology. Cell Metab. 2014 Nov 4; 20(5):761-8. PMID: 25156450; PMCID: PMC4252706.
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    13. Carmody RN, Turnbaugh P. Host-microbial interactions in the metabolism of therapeutic and diet-derived xenobiotics. J Clin Invest. 2014 Oct; 124(10):4173-81. PMID: 25105361; PMCID: PMC4191041.
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    14. Ursell LK, Haiser HJ, Van Treuren W, Garg N, Reddivari L, Vanamala J, Dorrestein PC, Turnbaugh P, Knight R. The intestinal metabolome: an intersection between microbiota and host. Gastroenterology. 2014 May; 146(6):1470-6. PMID: 24631493; PMCID: PMC4102302.
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    15. Haiser HJ, Seim KL, Balskus EP, Turnbaugh P. Mechanistic insight into digoxin inactivation by Eggerthella lenta augments our understanding of its pharmacokinetics. Gut Microbes. 2014 Mar-Apr; 5(2):233-8. PMID: 24637603; PMCID: PMC4063850.
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    16. David LA, Maurice CF, Carmody RN, Gootenberg DB, Button JE, Wolfe BE, Ling AV, Devlin AS, Varma Y, Fischbach MA, Biddinger SB, Dutton RJ, Turnbaugh P. Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome. Nature. 2014 Jan 23; 505(7484):559-63. PMID: 24336217; PMCID: PMC3957428.
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    17. Amir A, Zeisel A, Zuk O, Elgart M, Stern S, Shamir O, Turnbaugh P, Soen Y, Shental N. High-resolution microbial community reconstruction by integrating short reads from multiple 16S rRNA regions. Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Dec; 41(22):e205. PMID: 24214960; PMCID: PMC3905898.
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    18. Haiser HJ, Gootenberg DB, Chatman K, Sirasani G, Balskus EP, Turnbaugh P. Predicting and manipulating cardiac drug inactivation by the human gut bacterium Eggerthella lenta. Science. 2013 Jul 19; 341(6143):295-8. PMID: 23869020; PMCID: PMC3736355.
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    19. Devkota S, Turnbaugh P. Cancer: An acidic link. Nature. 2013 Jul 4; 499(7456):37-8. PMID: 23803768.
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    20. Maurice CF, Turnbaugh P. Quantifying the metabolic activities of human-associated microbial communities across multiple ecological scales. FEMS Microbiol Rev. 2013 Sep; 37(5):830-48. PMID: 23550823; PMCID: PMC3729610.
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    21. Brown J, de Vos WM, DiStefano PS, Doré J, Huttenhower C, Knight R, Lawley TD, Raes J, Turnbaugh P. Translating the human microbiome. Nat Biotechnol. 2013 Apr; 31(4):304-8. PMID: 23563424.
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    22. Liou AP, Paziuk M, Luevano JM, Machineni S, Turnbaugh P, Kaplan LM. Conserved shifts in the gut microbiota due to gastric bypass reduce host weight and adiposity. Sci Transl Med. 2013 Mar 27; 5(178):178ra41. PMID: 23536013; PMCID: PMC3652229.
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    23. Maurice CF, Haiser HJ, Turnbaugh P. Xenobiotics shape the physiology and gene expression of the active human gut microbiome. Cell. 2013 Jan 17; 152(1-2):39-50. PMID: 23332745; PMCID: PMC3552296.
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    24. Maurice CF, Turnbaugh P. Quantifying and identifying the active and damaged subsets of indigenous microbial communities. Methods Enzymol. 2013; 531:91-107. PMID: 24060117.
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    25. Liou AP, Turnbaugh P. Antibiotic exposure promotes fat gain. Cell Metab. 2012 Oct 3; 16(4):408-10. PMID: 23040064; PMCID: PMC3494989.
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    26. Carmody RN, Turnbaugh P. Gut microbes make for fattier fish. Cell Host Microbe. 2012 Sep 13; 12(3):259-61. PMID: 22980321; PMCID: PMC3888188.
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    27. Dutton RJ, Turnbaugh P. Taking a metagenomic view of human nutrition. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2012 Sep; 15(5):448-54. PMID: 22878238.
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    28. Haiser HJ, Turnbaugh P. Developing a metagenomic view of xenobiotic metabolism. Pharmacol Res. 2013 Mar; 69(1):21-31. PMID: 22902524; PMCID: PMC3526672.
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    29. Turnbaugh P. Microbiology: fat, bile and gut microbes. Nature. 2012 Jul 5; 487(7405):47-8. PMID: 22763552.
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    30. Haiser HJ, Turnbaugh P. Is it time for a metagenomic basis of therapeutics? Science. 2012 Jun 8; 336(6086):1253-5. PMID: 22674325.
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    31. Greenblum S, Turnbaugh P, Borenstein E. Metagenomic systems biology of the human gut microbiome reveals topological shifts associated with obesity and inflammatory bowel disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jan 10; 109(2):594-9. PMID: 22184244; PMCID: PMC3258644.
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    32. Reshef DN, Reshef YA, Finucane HK, Grossman SR, McVean G, Turnbaugh P, Lander ES, Mitzenmacher M, Sabeti PC. Detecting novel associations in large data sets. Science. 2011 Dec 16; 334(6062):1518-24. PMID: 22174245; PMCID: PMC3325791.
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    33. Babayan SA, Allen JE, Bradley JE, Geuking MB, Graham AL, Grencis RK, Kaufman J, McCoy KD, Paterson S, Smith KG, Turnbaugh P, Viney ME, Maizels RM, Pedersen AB. Wild immunology: converging on the real world. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2011 Oct; 1236:17-29. PMID: 22032399.
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    34. Turnbaugh P, Stintzi A. Human health and disease in a microbial world. Front Microbiol. 2011; 2:190. PMID: 21954396; PMCID: PMC3174398.
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    35. Jumpertz R, Le DS, Turnbaugh P, Trinidad C, Bogardus C, Gordon JI, Krakoff J. Energy-balance studies reveal associations between gut microbes, caloric load, and nutrient absorption in humans. Am J Clin Nutr. 2011 Jul; 94(1):58-65. PMID: 21543530; PMCID: PMC3127503.
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    36. Swanson KS, Suchodolski JS, Turnbaugh P. Companion animals symposium: microbes and health. J Anim Sci. 2011 May; 89(5):1496-7. PMID: 21521817.
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    37. Patil KR, Haider P, Pope PB, Turnbaugh P, Morrison M, Scheffer T, McHardy AC. Taxonomic metagenome sequence assignment with structured output models. Nat Methods. 2011 Mar; 8(3):191-2. PMID: 21358620; PMCID: PMC3131843.
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    38. Quince C, Lanzen A, Davenport RJ, Turnbaugh P. Removing noise from pyrosequenced amplicons. BMC Bioinformatics. 2011; 12:38. PMID: 21276213; PMCID: PMC3045300.
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    39. Gonzalez A, Stombaugh J, Lozupone C, Turnbaugh P, Gordon JI, Knight R. The mind-body-microbial continuum. Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2011; 13(1):55-62. PMID: 21485746; PMCID: PMC3139398.
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    40. Gootenberg DB, Turnbaugh P. Companion animals symposium: humanized animal models of the microbiome. J Anim Sci. 2011 May; 89(5):1531-7. PMID: 20833767.
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    41. Peterson DA, Turnbaugh P. A microbe-dependent viral key to Crohn's box. Sci Transl Med. 2010 Aug 4; 2(43):43ps39. PMID: 20686177.
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    42. Turnbaugh P, Henrissat B, Gordon JI. Viewing the human microbiome through three-dimensional glasses: integrating structural and functional studies to better define the properties of myriad carbohydrate-active enzymes. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2010 Oct 1; 66(Pt 10):1261-4. PMID: 20944220; PMCID: PMC2954214.
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    43. Caporaso JG, Lauber CL, Walters WA, Berg-Lyons D, Lozupone CA, Turnbaugh P, Fierer N, Knight R. Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Mar 15; 108 Suppl 1:4516-22. PMID: 20534432; PMCID: PMC3063599.
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    44. Caporaso JG, Kuczynski J, Stombaugh J, Bittinger K, Bushman FD, Costello EK, Fierer N, Peña AG, Goodrich JK, Gordon JI, Huttley GA, Kelley ST, Knights D, Koenig JE, Ley RE, Lozupone CA, McDonald D, Muegge BD, Pirrung M, Reeder J, Sevinsky JR, Turnbaugh P, Walters WA, Widmann J, Yatsunenko T, Zaneveld J, Knight R. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data. Nat Methods. 2010 May; 7(5):335-6. PMID: 20383131; PMCID: PMC3156573.
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    45. Turnbaugh P, Quince C, Faith JJ, McHardy AC, Yatsunenko T, Niazi F, Affourtit J, Egholm M, Henrissat B, Knight R, Gordon JI. Organismal, genetic, and transcriptional variation in the deeply sequenced gut microbiomes of identical twins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Apr 20; 107(16):7503-8. PMID: 20363958; PMCID: PMC2867707.
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    46. Turnbaugh P, Ridaura VK, Faith JJ, Rey FE, Knight R, Gordon JI. The effect of diet on the human gut microbiome: a metagenomic analysis in humanized gnotobiotic mice. Sci Transl Med. 2009 Nov 11; 1(6):6ra14. PMID: 20368178; PMCID: PMC2894525.
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    47. Turnbaugh P, Gordon JI. The core gut microbiome, energy balance and obesity. J Physiol. 2009 Sep 1; 587(Pt 17):4153-8. PMID: 19491241; PMCID: PMC2754355.
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    48. Mahowald MA, Rey FE, Seedorf H, Turnbaugh P, Fulton RS, Wollam A, Shah N, Wang C, Magrini V, Wilson RK, Cantarel BL, Coutinho PM, Henrissat B, Crock LW, Russell A, Verberkmoes NC, Hettich RL, Gordon JI. Characterizing a model human gut microbiota composed of members of its two dominant bacterial phyla. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Apr 7; 106(14):5859-64. PMID: 19321416; PMCID: PMC2660063.
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    49. Turnbaugh P, Hamady M, Yatsunenko T, Cantarel BL, Duncan A, Ley RE, Sogin ML, Jones WJ, Roe BA, Affourtit JP, Egholm M, Henrissat B, Heath AC, Knight R, Gordon JI. A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins. Nature. 2009 Jan 22; 457(7228):480-4. PMID: 19043404; PMCID: PMC2677729.
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    50. Turnbaugh P, Gordon JI. An invitation to the marriage of metagenomics and metabolomics. Cell. 2008 Sep 5; 134(5):708-13. PMID: 18775300.
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    51. Ley RE, Hamady M, Lozupone C, Turnbaugh P, Ramey RR, Bircher JS, Schlegel ML, Tucker TA, Schrenzel MD, Knight R, Gordon JI. Evolution of mammals and their gut microbes. Science. 2008 Jun 20; 320(5883):1647-51. PMID: 18497261; PMCID: PMC2649005.
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    52. Turnbaugh P, Bäckhed F, Fulton L, Gordon JI. Diet-induced obesity is linked to marked but reversible alterations in the mouse distal gut microbiome. Cell Host Microbe. 2008 Apr 17; 3(4):213-23. PMID: 18407065; PMCID: PMC3687783.
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    53. Zaneveld J, Turnbaugh P, Lozupone C, Ley RE, Hamady M, Gordon JI, Knight R. Host-bacterial coevolution and the search for new drug targets. Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2008 Feb; 12(1):109-14. PMID: 18280814; PMCID: PMC2348432.
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    54. Turnbaugh P, Ley RE, Hamady M, Fraser-Liggett CM, Knight R, Gordon JI. The human microbiome project. Nature. 2007 Oct 18; 449(7164):804-10. PMID: 17943116; PMCID: PMC3709439.
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    55. Turnbaugh P, Ley RE, Mahowald MA, Magrini V, Mardis ER, Gordon JI. An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest. Nature. 2006 Dec 21; 444(7122):1027-31. PMID: 17183312.
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    56. Ley RE, Turnbaugh P, Klein S, Gordon JI. Microbial ecology: human gut microbes associated with obesity. Nature. 2006 Dec 21; 444(7122):1022-3. PMID: 17183309.
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    57. Gill SR, Pop M, Deboy RT, Eckburg PB, Turnbaugh P, Samuel BS, Gordon JI, Relman DA, Fraser-Liggett CM, Nelson KE. Metagenomic analysis of the human distal gut microbiome. Science. 2006 Jun 2; 312(5778):1355-9. PMID: 16741115; PMCID: PMC3027896.
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    58. Gertz J, Riles L, Turnbaugh P, Ho SW, Cohen BA. Discovery, validation, and genetic dissection of transcription factor binding sites by comparative and functional genomics. Genome Res. 2005 Aug; 15(8):1145-52. PMID: 16077013; PMCID: PMC1182227.
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    59. Ley RE, Bäckhed F, Turnbaugh P, Lozupone CA, Knight RD, Gordon JI. Obesity alters gut microbial ecology. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Aug 2; 102(31):11070-5. PMID: 16033867; PMCID: PMC1176910.
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