Peter Turnbaugh

I'm a Professor at UCSF studying the impact of the human gut microbiome on pharmacology and nutrition. We also study phage now!

[Pierre Deep Sea @pgirguis]

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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[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

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.

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[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

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?

[Joe Bondy-Denomy @joeBondyDenomy]

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

[Joe Bondy-Denomy @joeBondyDenomy]

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

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

@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: https://t.co/edfrZ8m8Id

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

Nice article on using CRISPR to engineering the microbiome: https://t.co/EScx6yEF4t

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

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

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

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

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

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

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

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

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

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

[Roc @Roclogic]

"Dad Life!" Is about to go double platinum 😭😆🤣 I'm dead (Sound Up)

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

Celebrate the holidays with more Science is Fun! Dr. Susan Fisher @UCSF explains the wonders of the placenta. https://t.co/edfrZ8m8Id

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

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

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

Join our department @UCSF! https://t.co/Mx9xCux0YL

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

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 https://t.co/0ZCqfR2BCs

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

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

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

Flora has a microbiome too! Enjoy this inspired team-up with art by @Master_Amoeba and poem by @Science_Haikus #MicrobeArt2023 #InternationalMicroorganismDay

[mBio @mbiojournal]

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. https://t.co/4SXtgthcnG

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

A must read for all you @Skittles and @mmschocolate fans!

[Peter Turnbaugh @PTurnbaugh]

Congrats to @lindseympieper whose remarkable study on the gut bacterial degradation of food dyes and drugs is out now @mbiojournal https://t.co/FRZ5TruRzZ