Prepared: January 20, 2016

University of California, San Francisco

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Peter James Turnbaugh,
Position: Assistant Professor, Step 4
Microbiology & Immunology
School of Medicine
Address: University of California, San Francisco
email:

EDUCATION

1999 - 2003 / Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA / B.A. / Molecular Biology
2004 - 2009 / Washington University in St. Louis / Ph.D. / Genetics and Genomics
2009 - 2009 / Washington University in St. Louis / Postdoctoral Fellow / Genomics
2010 - 2014 / Harvard University / Bauer Fellow / Systems Biology

PRINCIPAL POSITIONS HELD

2014 - present / University of California, San Francisco / Assistant Professor / Microbiology & Immunology

HONORS AND AWARDS

1999 / National Honor Society
1999 / National Merit Scholar
1999 / William O. Douglas Scholarship
2003 / Honors thesis in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
2004 / Madson Graduate Scholarship
2005 / Sackler Colloquium: "Tapestry of Life" Student Travel Award
2005 / Balfour Fellowship for Academic Mentoring
2006 / National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
2007 / Kauffman Fellowship for Life Sciences Entrepreneurship
2006 / UCSD Annual Metagenomics Conference Student Travel Award
2007 / Bridging GAPS Interschool Award (BioEntrepreneurship Core)
2009 / David M. Kipnis Award in Biomedical Sciences
2010 / Philip Needleman Pharmacology Prize
2015 / Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research
2015 / Damon Runyon Cancer Innovation Award

KEYWORDS/AREAS OF INTEREST

Human gut microbiome; pharmacology; toxicology; xenobiotic metabolism; nutrition; metabolic syndrome

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Memberships

2003 - present / Sigma Xi
2010 - present / American Association for the Advancement of Science
2012 - present / American Society for Nutrition
2012 - 2014 / Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center
2015 - present / American Gastroenterological Association
2015 - present / UCSF Diabetes Center
2015 - present / UCSF Nutrition and Obesity Research Center

Service to Professional Organizations

2014 - 2014 / Lead organizer for Keystone Symposium (April 1-6, Big Sky Montana)
2014 - 2014 / Scientific organizer for American Academy of Microbiology FAQ Colloquium
2015 - 2015 / Workshop organizer for the 2015 ASM ICAAC Meeting
2015 - 2016 / Scientific organizer for the International Symposium on Microbial Ecology 2016 meeting

SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

2010 - 2010 / Guest Editor, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.
2010 - present / Editorial Board member, ISME Journal
2010 - present / Ad hoc referee for Amer. J. Clinical Nutr., Biological Reviews, BMC Microbiology, British J. Nutr., Cell, Cell Host Microbe, eLIFE, Environmental Health Perspectives, Environmental Microbiology, FASEB J, FEMS Microbiology, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Gastroenterology, Genome Biology, ISME J, JAMA, JCI, J. Pediatrics, Mol. Sys. Bio, Nature, Nature Biotech, Nature Communications, Nature Medicine, Pediatrics, PLoS Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS ONE, PLoS Pathogens, PNAS, Science, Science Translational Medicine, and Trends in Biotech.
2015 - 2015 / Guest Editor, eLIFE
2015 - present / Editor, mSystems

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

INTERNATIONAL

2009 / Unilever Microbiomics Symposium; Port Sunlight, UK.
2009 / Gut Day; Vlaardingen, Netherlands (keynote address).
2011 / Weizmann-Harvard Meeting on Systems Biology; Rehovot, Israel.
2011 / Symposium on Wild Immunology; Edinburgh, UK.
2011 / European Nutrition Conference; Madrid, Spain.
2013 / Cell Symposia on Immunometabolism; Toronto, Canada.
2014 / Microbiota, Nutrition, and Metabolism; Paris, France.
2015 / ETH Zurich Seminar; Zurich, Switzerland.
2015 / Wurzburg Seminar; Wurzberg, Germany.
2015 / EMBL Human Microbiome Meeting; Heidelberg, Germany.

NATIONAL

2008 / Advances in Genome Biology and Technology; Marco Island, FL (plenary talk).
2009 / Journal of Physiology Experimental Biology Symposium; New Orleans, LA.
2010 / American Diabetes Association Meeting; Orlando, FL.
2010 / American Society of Animal Science; Denver, CO.
2010 / American Institute for Cancer Research; Washington, DC.
2011 / Keystone Symposium on Microbial Ecology; Breckenridge, CO.
2011 / Cell Press LabLinks Symposium; Boston, MA.
2011 / Infectious Diseases Society of America Symposium; Boston, MA.
2012 / Institute of Medicine Food Forum; Washington DC.
2012 / Institute for Systems Biology Microbiome Symposium; Seattle, WA.
2012 / American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting; Boston, MA.
2012 / American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Annual Meeting; Boston, MA.
2013 / Keystone Symposium on the Gut Microbiome; Taos, NM.
2013 / Experimental Biology Annual Meeting; Boston, MA.
2013 / Virginia Tech Conference on Translational Obesity Research; Blacksburg, VA (keynote address).
2013 / Human Microbiome Science: Vision for the Future; Bethesda, MD.
2013 / Microbiome: Promise to Practice at the Individualizing Medicine Conference; Rochester, MN.
2013 / Cell Webinar: Harnessing the Power of the Microbiome.
2013 / Weighing In: The Public Health Impact & Promise of Science in Addressing Obesity; St. Louis, MO.
2013 / 23rd Annual Irwin Arias Symposium; Washington DC.
2013 / Annual Abbvie-Yale Symposium in Immunobiology: Microbiome in Health and Disease; New Haven, CT.
2014 / Keystone Symposium on Chemical Biotransformations in the Human Microbiome; Big Sky, Montana.
2014 / Applied Pharmaceutical Toxicity; Gaithersburg, MD (plenary talk).
2014 / The Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Special Session on the Human Microbiome; Boston, MA.
2014 / International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics; San Francisco, CA (plentary talk).
2015 / AAAS Meeting 2015; San Francisco, CA.
2015 / Whitman College Global Studies Symposium; Walla Walla, WA.
2015 / Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting; San Diego, CA.
2015 / American Society Pharmacognosy Meeting; Denver, CO.
2015 / ICAAC Meeting; San Diego, CA.
2015 / Gut Microbiome Conference 2015; Huntington Beach, CA.
2015 / 25th Annual Beckman Symposium; Los Angeles, CA.
2015 / American College of Rheumatology; San Francisco, CA.

REGIONAL AND OTHER INVITED PRESENTATIONS

2009 / University of Nebraska Seminar; Lincoln, NE.
2010 / Frontiers in Mucosal Immunology Annual Symposium; Boston, MA.
2010 / Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Annual Workshop; Boston, MA.
2010 / Millipore Triple Play Event; Billerica, MA.
2010 / Kemin Seminar; Des Moines, IA.
2010 / Endocrine Grand Rounds; Boston, MA.
2010 / Broad Institute Metabolism Seminar; Cambridge, MA.
2010 / Invited Seminar; Woods Hole, MA.
2011 / Animal Models of Weight Loss Surgery Meeting; Boston, MA.
2011 / General Mills EcoBiotics Summit; Minneapolis, MN.
2011 / Princeton Home and Away Seminar; Princeton, NJ.
2011 / Novartis Seminar; Cambridge, MA.
2011 / MGH Gastroenterology Seminar; Boston, MA.
2011 / Jackson Laboratory; Bar Harbor, ME.
2011 / Tufts Nutrition Seminar; Boston, MA.
2011 / Microbiome Research in the Boston Area Seminar; Boston, MA.
2012 / Circuits, and Computational Biology Symposium; Cambridge, MA.
2012 / Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center Seminar; Beltsville, MD.
2012 / University of Chicago Immunology Seminar; Chicago, IL.
2012 / Microbial Systems Seminar; Cambridge, MA.
2012 / Clinical Research Division Grand Rounds, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Seattle, WA.
2012 / Merck Game Changer Workshop; Cambridge, MA.
2012 / Harvard Digestive Diseases Center Mini-Symposium; Boston, MA.
2013 / NYU Microbiome Seminar; New York, NY.
2013 / University of Minnesota Seminar; Minneapolis, MN.
2013 / Millennium Pharmaceuticals Seminar; Cambridge, MA.
2013 / Tufts Microbiome Symposium; Boston, MA.
2013 / Argonne National Labs Seminar; Chicago, IL.
2013 / U. Chicago Seminar; Chicago, IL.
2013 / UCSF Microbiology/Immunology Seminar; San Francisco, CA.
2013 / UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute Seminar; San Francisco, CA.
2013 / Tufts Medical School Microbiology/Immunology Seminar; Boston, MA.
2013 / Children's Hospital Gastroenterology Seminar; Boston, MA.
2013 / University of Pennsylvania Seminar; Philadelphia, PA.
2013 / Harvard Medical School Microbiology and Immunology Seminar; Boston, MA.
2013 / Institute for Systems Biology Seminar; Seattle, WA.
2013 / UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute Seminar; San Francisco, CA.
2013 / Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Annual Workshop; Boston, MA.
2013 / Children's Hospital Grand Rounds; Boston, MA.
2014 / MGH Molecular Biology Departmental Seminar; Boston, MA.
2014 / Huck Institute Distinguished Lecture at Penn State; State College, PA.
2014 / Coca-Cola Microbiome Symposium; Atlanta, GA.
2014 / Suffolk University Science Dinner; Boston, MA (keynote address).
2014 / Biogen Idec Seminar; Cambridge, MA.
2014 / Lucille Castori Summer Workshop on the Microbiome; New York, NY (keynote address).
2014 / UCSF/UCB Joint Immunology Retreat
2014 / Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar
2014 / Institute for Human Genetics Seminar
2014 / BMS Graduate Program Retreat (UCSF)
2015 / Berkeley Plant and Microbial Biology Dept. Seminar; Berkeley, CA.
2015 / UCSF Liver Center Symposium; San Francisco, CA (keynote address).
2015 / UNC Translational Medicine Symposium; Chapel Hill, NC (keynote address).
2015 / UT Austin Departmental Seminar; Austin, TX.
2015 / Northwestern Departmental Seminar; Evanston, IL.
2015 / Novartis Seminar; Emeryville, CA.
2015 / Medimmune Science Days; Mountain View, CA.
2015 / 1st Annual California Microbiome Meeting; Pasadena, CA.
2015 / UCSF Obesity Research Symposium; San Francisco, CA.
2015 / Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute Seminar; Oakland, CA.

GOVERNMENT AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2010 - 2011 / Science Foundation Ireland / Grant Reviews (2)
2010 - 2012 / Wellcome Trust / Grant Reviews (2)
2010 - present / JGI Community Sequencing / Grant Reviews
2011 - 2011 / JDRF / Grant Review
2011 - 2011 / Netherlands Health Research / Grant Review
2011 - 2011 / German Research Foundation / Grant Reviews (2)
2011 - 2013 / National Science Foundation / Grant Reviews (3)
2011 - 2014 / Internal Harvard Grants / Grant Reviews (3)
2012 - 2014 / Danish Council / Grant Reviews (3)
2013 - present / National Institute of Health / Ad hoc Reviews (5)
2013 - 2013 / USDA / Grant Review
2013 - 2013 / Chinese Government / Grant Review
2014 - 2014 / Danish Government / Grant Review
2015 - 2015 / Arthritis Research UK / Grant Review

UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC SERVICE

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

UCSF CAMPUS-WIDE

2014 - present / Gnotobiotic Mouse Core Facility / Faculty Director

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

2014 - present / Biomedical Sciences, Tetrad, and iPQB graduate programs; Gastroenterology and Infectious Disease fellowship programs / Applicant Interviews
2014 - present / UCSF/Sandler Fellows program / Applicant Interviews
2015 - present / Biomedical Sciences / Admissions Committee
2015 - present / Bay Area Microbial Pathogenesis Symposium / Co-organizer

PUBLIC SERVICE

2015 - present / Gates & Bridges School / Fundraising organizer

TEACHING AND MENTORING

TEACHING

POSTGRADUATE AND OTHER COURSES

2004 - 2009 / Future Educators: group that meets to discuss current teaching methods.
2006 - 2006 / Genomics Teaching Assistant, Washington University School of Medicine. Supervised and taught computer lab (Perl, UNIX, bioinformatics) in addition to grading and providing lecture support.
2011 - 2011 / Guest lecturer for OEB277 - Special Topics in Symbiosis, Harvard University.
2011 - 2011 / STAMPS (strategies and techniques for analyzing microbial population structures), faculty member; MBL, Woods Hole, MA.
2011 - 2012 / Guest lecturer Biological Engineering Seminar on Symbiosis, MIT.
2011 - 2011 / Coach for MCO Journal Club, Harvard.
2012 - 2012 / Faculty for LS100r, Harvard University. I led 3 students in conducting a novel research project, presentation, and grant proposal.
2012 - 2012 / Guest lecturer for "The Microbiology of Food", Harvard University.
2012 - 2012 / Instructor for Harvard Medical School "nanocourse" on the microbiome.
2013 - 2013 / Faculty for Blackburn Course in Obesity Medicine.
2014 - 2014 / Guest lecturer for OEB290 - Microbial Sciences: Chemistry, Ecology and Evolution, Harvard University.
2014 - 2014 / Faculty for Obesity course; Boston, MA.
2015 - 2015 / Faculty for ASBP Obesity Medicine course; Denver, CO.
2015 - 2015 / Faculty for ASM ICAAC Microbiome workshop; San Diego, CA.

INFORMAL TEACHING

2010 - 2014 / Designed and taught a high school outreach module based on the human microbiome. Lead organizer: Tara Bennett (Harvard University). See http://outreach.mcb.harvard.edu/Microbiome/microbiome.html
2010 - 2014 / Members of my group have contributed to an interactive laboratory experience for high school students held each summer at Harvard.
2015 - 2015 / Brown bag lunch talk for employees of the Exploratorium museum.

MENTORING

PREDOCTORAL STUDENTS SUPERVISED OR MENTORED

Dates / Name / Program or School / Role / Current Position /
2010 - 2011 / David Gootenberg / Harvard College / Undergraduate thesis advisor / Harvard medical school
2010 - 2014 / Mira Guo / Harvard College / PhD co-advisor (working in David Weitz Lab) / Still in graduate school
2011 - 2013 / Jesus-Mario Luevano, Jr. / Harvard College / Undergraduate thesis advisor / Harvard medical school
2011 - 2011 / Rachel Martin / U.Mass Amherst / Supervised summer work / Applying to graduate school
2012 - 2012 / Nancy Huynh / Yale / Supervised summer work / U.Mass Worcester medical school
2012 - 2012 / Noah Apthorpe / Princeton / Supervised summer work / Computer Science program at Cornell
2012 - 2014 / Jon Sanders / Harvard College / Thesis committee member / Still in graduate school
2013 - 2013 / Kylynda Bauer / Andrew Univ. / Supervised summer work / Graduate student at UBC
2013 - 2013 / An Luong / Stanford / Supervised summer work / Graduate student
2015 - present / Qi Yan Ang / Biomedical Sciences; UCSF / Graduate student / Still in my group

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS AND RESIDENTS DIRECTLY SUPERVISED OR MENTORED

Dates / Name / Fellow / Faculty Role / Current Position /
2010 - 2013 / Lawrence David, PhD / Harvard junior fellow / Research Supervision / Asst. Prof., Duke University
2010 - 2014 / Corinne Maurice, PhD / Post-Doc Researcher / Research Supervision / Asst. Prof., McGill University
2010 - 2013 / Alice Liou, PhD / Post-Doc Researcher / Research Supervision w/Lee Kaplan (MGH) / Pfizer
2011 - 2014 / Henry Haiser, PhD / Post-Doc Researcher / Research Supervision / Novartis
2013 - 2014 / Amy Tsou, MD / Clinical Fellow / Research Supervision / Clinical fellow, Boston Children's Hospital
2013 - 2014 / Nikhil Pai, MD / Clinical Fellow / Research Supervision w/Lee Kaplan (MGH) / Asst. Prof., McMaster University
2012 - present / Rachel Carmody, PhD / Post-Doc Researcher / Research Supervision / Still in my group
2014 - present / Peter Spanogiannopoulos, PhD / Post-Doc Researcher / Research Supervision / Still in my group
2015 - present / Elizabeth Bess, PhD / Post-Doc Researcher / Research Supervision / Still in my group
2015 - present / Jordan Bisanz, PhD / Post-Doc Researcher / Research Supervision / Still in my group
2015 - present / Renuka Nayak, MD/PhD / Clinical Fellow / Research Supervision / Still in my group

RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES