[Enscfaculty] Dr. Jack Gilbert seminar and meetings November 10th

[Emma Aronson]

Hi All,
There are still a few spots left to meet with Jack Gilbert. Please add your
name to the itinerary here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/137CvppjmHdej3CsZ3zKwfl5IDXevclpj8_zCe84BQ7M/edit?usp=sharing>
or reach out to me.
Cheers,
Emma
-- 
Emma L. Aronson, PhD
Professor
Dept. of Microbiology and Plant Pathology
Microbiology Graduate Program Director
3411 Boyce Hall
University of California, Riverside
(She/Her/Hers)



On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM Emma Aronson <emma.aronson at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am organizing the schedule for our MCBL Seminar Speaker Dr. Jack Gilbert
> <https://gilbertlab.ucsd.edu/> in 2 weeks, on November 10. He is a pillar
> of the field of microbiology, doing exciting research in human microbiome,
> microbiome of the built environment, soil health, and marine microbiology
> (Bio from his website pasted in below). He will be at UCR from UCSD/Scripps
> just for the day on November 10th. Please consider attending his seminar on
> Nov 10 at 2PM in the Genomics Auditorium. Let me know ASAP if you want to
> meet with him that day, as well as your entire availability 10-4 that day.
> I may double up some meetings if necessary.
>
> Cheers,
> Emma
>
> Professor Jack A. Gilbert (he/him) 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 the University of California San Diego, where he is a Professor in
> Pediatrics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Associate Vice
> Chancellor for Marine Science, and Director of the Microbiome and
> Metagenomics Center. Dr. Gilbert uses molecular analysis to test
> fundamental hypotheses in microbial ecology. He cofounded the Earth
> Microbiome Project <https://earthmicrobiome.org/> and American Gut
> Project. He has authored more than 450 peer reviewed publications and book
> chapters on microbial ecology. He is the founding Editor in Chief of
> mSystems <https://journals.asm.org/journal/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.
> <https://www.biomesense.com/> to produce automated microbiome sensors. In
> 2021 Dr Gilbert became the UCSD PI for the National Institutes of Health’s
> $175M Nutrition for Precision Health
> <https://nutritionforprecisionhealth.org/> program. In 2023 he became
> President of Applied Microbiology International
> <https://appliedmicrobiology.org/>, and won the 2023 IFF Microbiome
> Science Prize. His publications can be found here
> <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9fGoifYAAAAJ&hl=en>.
> --
> Emma L. Aronson, PhD
> Professor
> Dept. of Microbiology and Plant Pathology
> Microbiology Graduate Program Director
> 3411 Boyce Hall
> University of California, Riverside
> (She/Her/Hers)
>
>
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