Jack Gilbert

Associate Vice Chancellor for Marine Science

Professor Jack A Gilbert earned his Ph.D. from Unilever and Nottingham University, UK in 2002, and received his postdoctoral training at Queens University, Canada. From 2005-2010 he was a senior scientist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK; and from 2010-2018 he was Group Leader for Microbial Ecology at Argonne National Laboratory, a Professor of Surgery, and Director of The Microbiome Center at University of Chicago. In 2019 he moved to University of California San Diego, where he is a Professor in Pediatrics and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He was Biology Section Head at SIO in 2022, and is now Associate Vice Chancellor for Marine Science at UCSD. Dr. Gilbert uses molecular analysis to test fundamental hypotheses in microbial ecology. He has also set up core molecular laboratories at Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago and UCSD, as well as running his own molecular genomics laboratory at all 3 locations. He is the current Director of the UCSD Microbiome Core.

He cofounded the Earth Microbiome Project and American Gut Project. He has authored more than 400 peer reviewed publications and book chapters on microbial ecology. He is the founding Editor in Chief of mSystems journal. In 2014 he was recognized on Crain’s Business Chicago’s 40 Under 40 List, and in 2015 he was listed as one of the 50 most influential scientists by Business Insider, and in the Brilliant Ten by Popular Scientist. In 2016 he won the Altemeier Prize from the Surgical Infection Society, and the WH Pierce Prize from the Society for Applied Microbiology for research excellence. In 2017 he co-authored “Dirt is Good”, a popular science guide to the microbiome and children’s health. In 2018, he founded BiomeSense Inc to produce automated microbiome sensors. In 2019 he was elected to the Philosophical Society of Washington.

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