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  • 2016 - WH Pierce Prize, The Society for Applied Microbiology

Overview

Jack A. Gilbert is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant attention to molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, ecology, physiology, and infectious diseases.

Their main research topics include:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Microbial community ecology and physiology
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Global energy and sustainability research
  • Climate change communication and perception

Jack A. Gilbert has frequently published in scientific venues such as:

  • mSystems
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Nature Communications
  • Sustainable Microbiology

Some of their recent notable publications include:

  • "Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats," 2020, mBio
  • "Earth microbial co-occurrence network reveals interconnection pattern across microbiomes," 2020, Microbiome
  • "In Vivo Competitions between Fibrobacter succinogenes, Ruminococcus flavefaciens, and Ruminoccus albus in a Gnotobiotic Sheep Model Revealed by Multi-Omic Analyses," 2021, Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
  • "Gut microbiome heritability is nearly universal but environmentally contingent," 2021, Science
  • "Multi-omics analyses of airway host-microbe interactions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identify potential therapeutic interventions," 2022, Nature Microbiology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers including Irene L. G. Newton, Rob Knight, Arturo Casadevall, Sarah M. Allard, and Patrick D. Schloss.

Jack A. Gilbert has received the WH Pierce Prize from The Society for Applied Microbiology in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

    J. Gregory Caporaso;Christian L Lauber;William A. Walters;Donna Berg-Lyons

  • Current understanding of the human microbiome.

    Jack A Gilbert;Jack A Gilbert;Jack A Gilbert;Martin J Blaser;J Gregory Caporaso;Janet K Jansson

  • A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity

    Luke R. Thompson;Luke R. Thompson;Luke R. Thompson;Jon G. Sanders;Daniel McDonald;Amnon Amir

  • Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

    Robert M. Bowers;Nikos C. Kyrpides;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Miranda Harmon-Smith

  • Improved Bacterial 16S rRNA Gene (V4 and V4-5) and Fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer Marker Gene Primers for Microbial Community Surveys.

    William Walters;Embriette R. Hyde;Donna Berg-Lyons;Gail Ackermann

  • Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

    Noah Fierer;Jonathan W. Leff;Byron J. Adams;Uffe N. Nielsen

  • The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification.

    Dawn Field;George Garrity;Tanya Gray;Norman Morrison

  • Geographic patterns of co-occurrence network topological features for soil microbiota at continental scale in eastern China.

    Bin Ma;Haizhen Wang;Melissa Dsouza;Jun Lou

  • Defining seasonal marine microbial community dynamics

    Jack A Gilbert;Jack A Gilbert;Jack A Gilbert;Joshua A Steele;J. Gregory Caporaso;Lars Steinbrück

  • Metagenomics - a guide from sampling to data analysis.

    Torsten Thomas;Jack P. Gilbert;Jack P. Gilbert;Folker Meyer;Folker Meyer

  • GABA-modulating bacteria of the human gut microbiota

    Philip Strandwitz;Ki Hyun Kim;Darya Terekhova;Joanne K. Liu

  • Innate Immunity and Asthma Risk in Amish and Hutterite Farm Children

    Michelle M. Stein;Cara L. Hrusch;Justyna Gozdz;Justyna Gozdz;Catherine Igartua

  • Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environment.

    Simon Lax;Simon Lax;Daniel P. Smith;Daniel P. Smith;Daniel P. Smith;Jarrad Hampton-Marcell;Jarrad Hampton-Marcell;Sarah M. Owens;Sarah M. Owens

  • The Soil Microbiome Influences Grapevine-Associated Microbiota

    Iratxe Zarraonaindia;Iratxe Zarraonaindia;Sarah M. Owens;Sarah M. Owens;Pamela Weisenhorn;Kristin West

  • The Earth Microbiome project: successes and aspirations

    Jack A Gilbert;Jack A Gilbert;Jack A Gilbert;Janet K Jansson;Rob Knight;Rob Knight

  • American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research.

    Daniel McDonald;Embriette Hyde;Justine W. Debelius;James T. Morton

  • Minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about any (x) sequence (MIxS) specifications.

    Pelin Yilmaz;Pelin Yilmaz;Renzo Kottmann;Dawn Field;Rob Knight;Rob Knight

  • Effects of diurnal variation of gut microbes and high-fat feeding on host circadian clock function and metabolism.

    Vanessa Leone;Sean M. Gibbons;Sean M. Gibbons;Kristina Martinez;Alan L. Hutchison

  • Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome

    Torsten Thomas;Lucas Moitinho-Silva;Miguel Lurgi;Johannes R. Björk;Johannes R. Björk

  • Microbiome-wide association studies link dynamic microbial consortia to disease

    Jack A. Gilbert;Robert A. Quinn;Justine Debelius;Zhenjiang Z. Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Folker Meyer
Folker Meyer Argonne National Laboratory
Dawn Field
Dawn Field University of Oxford
Sean M. Gibbons
Sean M. Gibbons University of Washington
Noah Fierer
Noah Fierer University of Colorado Boulder
Janet K. Jansson
Janet K. Jansson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Harold L. Drake
Harold L. Drake University of Bayreuth
Thomas J. Silhavy
Thomas J. Silhavy Princeton University
Arturo Casadevall
Arturo Casadevall Johns Hopkins University
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner Jacobs University

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