"Elinne is only 40% of her genome away from being fungus." -Jack Gilbert @gilbertjacka.bsky.social

Paraphrasing Tom Curtis “ if the last whale dies in the ocean, it will be a tragedy, but if the last ammonia oxidizing bacterium dies in our waste water treatment plants, it will be the end of humanity”

As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Microbes sustain all ecosystems yet they’re nearly absent from conservation frameworks. The @IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group aims to change that. Honored to co-chair this global effort. Great @nytimes piece by Carl Zimmer: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/s...

Happy to announce that guitarist and legend - The Edge - is working with us to support soil regeneration through Oath Inc. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Did a fun thing with the BBC - and it got syndicated to Brazil with the world service youtube.com/shorts/zPn0P...

Thanks Annie Roth! Great article on our new IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group in National Geographic. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

I’ll be joining @CSUSM’s Climate Action & Sustainability Center panel on Oct 8 (6–7:30pm) to discuss protecting and restoring North County’s water bodies. With @SDCoastkeeper + CSUSM faculty. 🌊 📍 CSUSM | More info: www.csusm.edu/al/calendar....

Microbes without borders: uniting societies for climate action @femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiol Ecol by @jaytlennon.bsky.social et al @leonorabit.bsky.social @vscooper.micropopbio.org @gilbertjacka.bsky.social academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

Check out MicroMates: Oceanic Odyssey by Minkor AB on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/170...

Check out MicroMates: Oceanic Odyssey by Minkor AB on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/170...

Microbes = climate allies. Our new editorial calls for a global alliance to put microbial science at the center of climate action. 🌱🌍 Because microbes cross every border—so should our solutions. 👉 doi.org/10.1093/sumb...

🗣️ “It has been the honour of a lifetime to serve in this role” – Prof. Jack Gilbert, President of AMI AMI is seeking its next President - a prestigious opportunity to lead our Board of Trustees, champion our mission, and represent AMI globally. Learn more: appliedmicrobiology.org/about/our-te...

The team behind a new world-leading conservation committee headed by Applied Microbiology International (AMI) is calling on global scientific and conservation communities to get on board to protect microbial life. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/new-con... @gilbertjacka.bsky.social

🌏 #Microbes now have their own global survival commission! The #IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group, co-led by Scripps microbial ecologist @gilbertjacka.bsky.social, aims to safeguard the survival of the smallest species on the planet. t.co/Bm2alBNqdf

Here's how we give the microbes their due in a historic 1st. The International Union for Conservation of Nature now has a MICROBIAL CONSERVATION SPECIALIST GROUP as a global safeguard for microbial biodiversity! Article led by @gilbertjacka.bsky.social Raquel Peixoto www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Announcing our correspondence in Nature Microbiology: The IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group is here! For too long, microbes have been invisible in conservation. Together we’re building networks, tools, & policies to protect them — the foundation of all ecosystems. READ: rdcu.be/eFOE3

Presentation by Jack Gilbert @gilbertjacka.bsky.social Precision Microbiome Health Care

. @dfigeys.bsky.social (Atlantic event) will present RapidAIM: a high-throughput assay that maintains live human gut microbiomes in 96-well format @gilbertjacka.bsky.social (Pacific event) will discuss precision medicine and human gut microbiome! 🆓registration cassyni.com/s/mvif-glomi... 5/n

✨Pacific Session speakers✨ Gloria Dominguez-Bello Adrian Egli Safarina Malik @meghanazad.bsky.social ‬ Thomas Sharpton @gilbertjacka.bsky.social David Mills Kate Bowerman Takuji Yamada @fzmarques.bsky.social ‬ @calumwalsh.bsky.social 3/3

If you are interested in learning more about Clinical Methods for Nutrition and Obesity Research - I strongly recommend you apply for this course - it's free and they provide a $500 travel stipend to offset costs of attendance. www.pbrc.edu/training-and...

Please vote for my panel at SXSW - participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...

Nice article on the presentation i gave at ADLM last week. read.nxtbook.com/kiva_communi...

I will be at the International Union Nutrition Science's 2025 meeting talking about research on almond consumption and the microbiome. www.icn2025.org/program#/ses...

Very excited to welcome Meenakshi Wadhwa as the new Director of SIO, Vice Chancellor of Marine Science, and Dean of the School of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Science at UC San Diego. Prof. Wadhwa is a profound intellect and brilliant scientist, and I look forward to working with her.

Where does microbiome-based medicine stand today, and where is it headed? We explore five simulated clinical cases, featuring insights from @gilbertjacka.bsky.social and @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social loom.ly/h7uGlx0

@gilbertjacka.bsky.social does a karaoke version of Microbe Microbe with @lhug.bsky.social and @kuesellab.bsky.social and the 2025 AEM GRC group meet the challenge?

🌿💡 Just dropped: our 4‑bug SynCom eats 8 herbicides (up to 99 % gone in a month) and revs up soil carbon metabolism. Microbes doing double duty for cleaner, richer black soils. Check the iMeta paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SoilSci #Bioremediation

Thrilled to drop our latest review (open access!) on how tuning the infant & pediatric microbiome reshapes infection outcomes—from neonatal sepsis to chemo‑associated dysbiosis. Dive in: doi.org/10.1080/1949... #MicrobiomeScience #ChildHealth

#BAGECO25 came to its end and had a nice close including use of #AI to understand #microbiomes, microbial engineering 🔧🦠 in #agriculture 🌾👩🏻‍🌾 and last but not least @gilbertjacka.bsky.social with a strong message on how microbes are drivers to shape the future of the planetary #health 🌎😷

Only one week left to register for EcoFAB 2025–hope to see you there! eco-fab.org/ecofab-2025-...

The Microbiota Vault Initiative: Safeguarding Earth's microbial heritage for future generations #Microbiomes4Life @gilbertjacka.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3GpfSu5

🌍🦠 World Microbiome Day shout-out: we’ve just unveiled the Microbiota Vault—a planetary backup for microbial diversity. Built on equitable, One Health values & linked to the new IUCN SSC Microbiomes. Read our Nature Comms piece: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #MicrobiotaVault #Conservation #WMD2025

The Microbiota Vault Initiative: Safeguarding Earth's microbial heritage for future generations #Microbiomes4Life @gilbertjacka.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4kifmvX

Just reading this perspective by @gilbertjacka.bsky.social and colleagues: the Microbiota Vault Initiative is important for environmental and human health, and aims to foster equitable collaboration www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com

Today is World Microbiome Day and today the Microbiota Vault, together with all participating Local Collections, publishes the perspective paper "The Microbiota Vault Initiative: Safeguarding Earth's microbial heritage for future generations" in Nature Communications. Link: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Many U.S. babies may lack gut bacteria that train their immune systems www.sciencenews.org/article/babi...

Nominate yourself or a colleague for our annual Horizon Awards at Applied Microbiology International by Friday July 11th. appliedmicrobiology.org/funding/awar...

Excited to announce that Raquel Peixoto and I have been selected as the first Co-Chairs of the IUCN SSC’s new Microbial Conservation Specialist Group. This is a huge step in giving microbes the recognition they deserve in conservation science. Let’s get to work! 🔬

I will be on a panel at Coastal Roots Farms on June 26th to discuss microbial technologies to improve crop productivity and soil carbon accumulation, and watch the film Common Ground.

New Consensus Statement in Nature Microbiology! Working with low-biomass microbiome samples? From deep subsurface rocks to human lungs, contamination is a major challenge. We offer field-to-data analysis guidelines to help keep your results clean. 📖 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Remembering the music video we put together for the 2013 AEM GRC - youtu.be/8rkJPnKvRLQ?...

🚨New Article🚨 Can next generation sequencing help us better understand the human #microbiome? Speaking with @halllab.bsky.social and @gilbertjacka.bsky.social we explore how #NGS is transforming microbiome research for health and disease. tinyurl.com/4awcpwz2 #Genomics #Microbiology #PublicHealth

Very excited for this meeting in August - register and come and join me! eco-fab.org/ecofab-2025-...

Speaking at Probiota Americas 2025 with Nikos Kyrpides from JGI #probiota

Gilbert lab alumni reunion in Cambridge, Massachusetts. @gilbertjacka.bsky.social

Federal funding cuts impact scientific research in the ocean www.nbcnews.com/now/video/fe...

#mSystems editorial by @gilbertjacka.bsky.social Farewell and thanks for all the fish journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Thanks, Jack, for this excellent collaboration! 👏

So I did something fun! I am featured in a new documentary - String Theory - streaming on Amazon Prime which talks about why when I am filming in other documentaries my guitars are often in the background. Very meta! And good fun! www.stringtheoryguitarmovie.com

For those in San Diego this budget game allows you to propose revenue generating and cost cutting budget choices to influence San Diego's budget shortfall. I could only comfortable reduce the shortfall to $36M... www.kpbs.org/news/2025/05...