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Jack A Gilbert (he/him/his)

@gilbertjacka

Microbial ecologist: EIC for mSystems; cofounder of BiomeSense; President for AMI. Father, Scientist, Pilot. Views are my own.
UCSD gilbertlab.ucsd.edu Joined December 2010
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Jack A Gilbert (he/him/his) @gilbertjacka
Excited to speak at @royalsociety MOPHH 2026 on metals, oxygen & planetary + human homeostasis.

I’ll be discussing how microbiomes connect health across scales—from clinics to ecosystems 🌍🦠

📅 June 15–16
📍 London + virtual (FREE)
👉 Register: royalsociety.org/science-events…
royalsociety.org Metals and oxygen: Planetary and human homeostasis (MOPHH) | Royal Society Discussion meeting organised by Professor Karen Johnson, Professor Caroline Peacock, Dr Stephen Chivasa, Dr Karrera Djoko and Dr Verena Tretter
Jack A Gilbert (he/him/his) @gilbertjacka
New paper out in BMC Medicine 🧠🦠

A human-derived gut bacterium (Bacteroides salyersiae HB32) reduced depressive-like behavior in a chronic stress model — with effects comparable to ketamine in this study.
@Holobiome_Inc

link.springer.com/article/10.118…
link.springer.com A human-derived Bacteroides strain attenuates depressive-like behavior in a rat model of social... BMC Medicine - The gut microbiome has been linked to mood disorders via communication along the gut-brain axis. We previously found levels of fecal Bacteroides were inversely associated with brain...