News

Science is fun!

Renuka and Kathy are really enjoying the results from their latest experiments.

Alex and Peter are crowned the 2018 champions

It was a fierce afternoon of competition, but newcomer Alex and veteran competitor Peter S took the crown for the 2018 Lab Challenge. 

Tenure accepted!

Just 5 days before the deadline the official verdict is in, it's now Peter Turnbaugh, Associate Professor. I feel incredibly grateful to have landed at such a warm and nurturing university. 

A belated welcome to Vincent!

Vincent is here for the summer and brings a wealth of chemical knowledge and analytical skills. He's also increasing our lab's already formidable biking cred.

Lindsey Pieper joins the lab!

Welcome back Lindsey! Looking forward to the next few years of exciting science!

Inaugural M&I faculty mind meld

A fun and inspiring day of talks by UCSF luminaries. They really did justice to our Mount Parnassus heritage.

A prevalent gut bacterial enzyme that inactivates a family of plant toxins

Congrats to Jordan for all his genome analysis wizardry! Very exciting results in eLife with the Balskus Lab dissecting the biochemistry and strain-level variation in gut bacterial genes involved in the metabolism of drugs and other plant toxins.

Collateral damage of non-antibiotic drugs on the human gut microbiome

Our commentary is out now in Nature Reviews. Is it time for pharmacologists and toxicologists to consider the microbiome?

Our first bioRxiv paper in online now

Excited to join the bioRxiv cool kids! Read here about how Bisanz et al. are exploring the microbiome's dark matter: a functional genomic toolkit for the study of human gut Actinobacteria.

Congrats to Renuka!

Our lab is thrilled to welcome Zoya Singh Nayak, born 4/3/18. Congrats to Renuka and Tony!