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Diet Dominates Host Genotype in Shaping the Murine Gut Microbiota

Diet-induced manipulation of gut microbes holds therapeutic potential, but the reproducibility of effects across individuals remains unknown. Our new study (Carmody et al., Cell Host Microbe 2015) suggests that diet can reproducibly alter the gut microbiota despite differences…

First Hooper Lab Meeting

Peter S locked in a vulcan mind-meld with Jessie. 

Turnbaugh lab member discovers a rare solar eclipse

State-of-the-art solar eclipse detection equipment pioneered by Dr. Spanogiannopoulos.

How the host nourishes the gut microbiome during illness

We recently collaborated with the Chervonsky lab at U.Chicago to help study the links between fucose, gut microbes, and recovery from disease. See the write-up in The Scientist for more details.

Diet rapidly alters the human gut microbiome

Check out all the press about our latest diet study in Nature: Harvard Gazette, Bloomberg,