2022 Beadle and Tatum Lecture: Jeffrey I. Gordon -“Developing microbiota-directed complementary foods for treating childhood undernutrition”

2022 Beadle and Tatum Lecture

“Developing microbiota-directed complementary foods for treating childhood undernutrition”

Jeffrey I. Gordon
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis/The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology

Jeffrey Gordon received his A.B. from Oberlin College and his M.D. from the University of Chicago. He completed his clinical training in internal medicine and gastroenterology at Washington University and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Biochemistry at NIH’s National Cancer Institute. He has spent his entire career at Washington University, first as a member of the Departments of Medicine and Biological Chemistry, then as Head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, and now as Founding Director of the University’s interdepartmental Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He has had the privilege and pleasure of having 142 PhD students and post-doctoral fellows train in his lab; they have played key roles in shaping this field, with a number becoming leaders in microbiome science.

Host: Jonas Cremer