Jeffrey I. Gordon

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
• 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
• 2018 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
• 2018 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
• 2017 - Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University
• 2015 - Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
• 2015 - King Faisal Prize
• 2013 - Robert Koch Prize
• 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
• 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Member of the Association of American Physicians
• Member of the Association of American Physicians
• Member of the Association of American Physicians
• Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Best Publications

• QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data.

  J Gregory Caporaso;Justin Kuczynski;Jesse Stombaugh;Kyle Bittinger

  37106
  Citations

• An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest

  Peter J. Turnbaugh;Ruth E. Ley;Michael A. Mahowald;Vincent Magrini

  13424
  Citations

• A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

  Peter J. Turnbaugh;Micah Hamady;Tanya Yatsunenko;Brandi L. Cantarel

  9253
  Citations

• Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography

  Tanya Yatsunenko;Federico E Rey;Mark J Manary;Mark J Manary;Indi Trehan;Indi Trehan

  8604
  Citations

• Microbial ecology: Human gut microbes associated with obesity

  Ruth E. Ley;Peter J. Turnbaugh;Samuel Klein;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  7757
  Citations

• The gut microbiota as an environmental factor that regulates fat storage

  Fredrik Bäckhed;Hao Ding;Hao Ding;Ting Wang;Lora V. Hooper

  7657
  Citations

• Obesity alters gut microbial ecology

  Ruth E. Ley;Fredrik Bäckhed;Peter Turnbaugh;Catherine A. Lozupone

  7371
  Citations

• The human microbiome project.

  Peter J. Turnbaugh;Ruth E. Ley;Micah Hamady;Claire M. Fraser-Liggett

  6675
  Citations

• Host-Bacterial Mutualism in the Human Intestine

  Fredrik Bäckhed;Ruth E. Ley;Justin L. Sonnenburg;Daniel A. Peterson

  6526
  Citations

• Metagenomic Analysis of the Human Distal Gut Microbiome

  Steven R. Gill;Mihai Pop;Robert T. DeBoy;Paul B. Eckburg;Paul B. Eckburg

  5737
  Citations

• Diversity, stability and resilience of the human gut microbiota

  Catherine A. Lozupone;Jesse I. Stombaugh;Jeffrey I. Gordon;Janet K. Jansson

  5365
  Citations

• Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing.

  Nicholas A Bokulich;Sathish Subramanian;Jeremiah J Faith;Dirk Gevers

  4476
  Citations

• Gut Microbiota from Twins Discordant for Obesity Modulate Metabolism in Mice

  Vanessa K. Ridaura;Jeremiah J. Faith;Federico E. Rey;Jiye Cheng

  4302
  Citations

• Ecological and evolutionary forces shaping microbial diversity in the human intestine.

  Ruth E. Ley;Daniel A. Peterson;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  3997
  Citations

• Evolution of mammals and their gut microbes

  Ruth E. Ley;Micah Hamady;Catherine Lozupone;Catherine Lozupone;Peter J. Turnbaugh

  3947
  Citations

• Bacterial Community Variation in Human Body Habitats Across Space and Time

  Elizabeth K. Costello;Christian L. Lauber;Micah Hamady;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer

  3828
  Citations

• The Effect of Diet on the Human Gut Microbiome: A Metagenomic Analysis in Humanized Gnotobiotic Mice

  Peter J. Turnbaugh;Vanessa K. Ridaura;Jeremiah J. Faith;Federico E. Rey

  3435
  Citations

• DIET-INDUCED OBESITY IS LINKED TO MARKED BUT REVERSIBLE ALTERATIONS IN THE MOUSE DISTAL GUT MICROBIOME

  Peter J. Turnbaugh;Fredrik Bäckhed;Lucinda Fulton;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  3385
  Citations

• Mechanisms underlying the resistance to diet-induced obesity in germ-free mice

  Fredrik Bäckhed;Jill K. Manchester;Clay F. Semenkovich;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  3238
  Citations

• Commensal Host-Bacterial Relationships in the Gut

  Lora V. Hooper;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  3109
  Citations