Jack Gilbert

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 a Professor of Surgery and Director of The Microbiome Center at University of Chicago and a group leader at Argonne National Laboratory. In 2019 he moved to University of California San Diego, where he is a Professor in Pediatrics and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Dr. Gilbert uses molecular analysis to test fundamental hypotheses in microbial ecology. He cofounded the Earth Microbiome Project and American Gut Project. He has authored more than 300 peer reviewed publications and book chapters on microbial ecology. He is the founding Editor in Chief of mSystems journal.

Companies

• Professor University of California San Diego (2019)
• Co-Founder and Scientific Advisory Board member BiomeSense (2017)
• Founding Editor in Chief - mSystems Journal American Society for Microbiology (2015)
• Visiiting Yeoh Ghim Seng Professor National University of Singapore (2016 — 2019)
• Director The Microbiome Center (2016 — 2018)
• Professor The University of Chicago (2016 — 2018)
• Research Associate The Field Museum (2015 — 2018)
• Fellow Marine Biological Laboratory (2014 — 2018)
• Microbial Ecologist (Group Leader) Argonne National Laboratory (2014 — 2018)