Guy Edmund Townsend, PhD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile
Guy Edmund Townsend, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
One Health Microbiome Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
One Health Microbiome Center
Research Interests
- Bacteria
- Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
- Polysaccharides
- Genes
- Proteins
- Nutrients
- Carbohydrates
- Growth
- Mesorhizobium
- Dietary Sugars
- Gastrointestinal Microbiome
- Bacteroides
Recent Publications
2023
Krypotou, E, Townsend, GE, Gao, X, Tachiyama, S, Liu, J, Pokorzynski, ND, Goodman, AL & Groisman, EA 2023, 'Bacteria require phase separation for fitness in the mammalian gut', Science, vol. 379, no. 6637, eabn7229. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn7229
Pearce, VH, Groisman, EA & Townsend, GE 2023, 'Dietary sugars silence the master regulator of carbohydrate utilization in human gut Bacteroides species', Gut microbes, vol. 15, no. 1, 2221484. https://doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2023.2221484
Modesto, JL, Pearce, VH & Townsend, GE 2023, 'Harnessing gut microbes for glycan detection and quantification', Nature communications, vol. 14, no. 1, 275. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35626-2
2022
Han, W, Peng, BZ, Wang, C, Townsend, GE, Barry, NA, Peske, F, Goodman, AL, Liu, J, Rodnina, MV & Groisman, EA 2023, 'Gut colonization by Bacteroides requires translation by an EF-G paralog lacking GTPase activity', EMBO Journal, vol. 42, no. 2, e112372. https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.2022112372
2020
Townsend, GE, Han, W, Schwalm, ND, Hong, X, Bencivenga-Barry, NA, Goodman, AL & Groisman, EA 2020, 'A master regulator of bacteroides thetaiotaomicron gut colonization controls carbohydrate utilization and an alternative protein synthesis factor', mBio, vol. 11, no. 1, e03221-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.03221-19