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Guy Edmund Townsend, PhD

Guy Edmund Townsend, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
GXT191@psu.edu
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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