Peter Turnbaugh

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Professor Rachel Carmody

You are what you eat — and how you cook it

Research suggests gut microbes adapt quickly to changes in diet and preparation, particularly in starchy vegetables

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DateOctober 2, 2019October 3, 2019

A team of researchers led by Emily Balskus has identified the culprit gene in a cardiac-drug-eating bacterium that produces the enzyme responsible for metabolizing the active ingredient.

Enzyme interference

Study identifies bacterial gene responsible for producing enzyme that consumes cardiac drug

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DateMay 16, 2018May 16, 2018

“What we are really excited about is we and others have shown in animal models that diet can rapidly have major effects on the microbes that are in the gut,” said Peter Turnbaugh, a Bauer Fellow at the Center for Systems Biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Your gut’s what you eat, too

Changing diet can quickly shift makeup of important microbes there, research says

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DateJanuary 2, 2014March 20, 2019

A medication typically prescribed to treat heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia is one of the few drugs that is inactivated by gut microbes, said Peter Turnbaugh (left), the senior author of a new paper on the topic. The research also identifies a possible way to stop the process from happening. Turnbaugh is pictured with Henry Haiser, who worked with him on the research.

Bacterial blockade

Research explains how gut microbes can inactivate cardiac drugs

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DateJuly 23, 2013March 22, 2019

Researcher Peter Turnbaugh (left) and Associate Professor of Medicine Lee Kaplan (right) are the senior authors on a paper detailing drastic changes in the gut microbes of mice following gastric bypass surgery. The pair are pictured with Alice Liou, a research fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School, who was also part of the research team.

Major weight loss tied to microbes

Study suggests possible alternative to gastric bypass surgery

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DateMarch 27, 2013April 18, 2019

In a recent paper in Cell, Peter Turnbaugh (pictured) and fellow researchers show that as drugs are administered, the activity of human gut microbes can change dramatically.

Go with your gut

Research sheds light on how microbes can interact with drugs

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DateFebruary 14, 2013April 16, 2019

The Harvard lab of Bauer Fellow Peter Turnbaugh (above) is working to identify the mysterious microbes living in our intestines, and to better understand how the bacteria that live within us affect the drugs we take and the exotic foods we eat, collectively called xenobiotics. “There are very few examples where we know the link between gut microbes and xenobiotics — that’s one thing I’d like to change,” Turnbaugh said.

Life partner

Microbes, at work inside of us, are of rising interest to researchers for role in health, diet

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DateJune 26, 2012July 11, 2019