Speaker at Del Mar Foundation Talk event to present ‘The Microbiome in Precision Medicine: how diet, the microbiome, and the immune system interact’

The Del Mar Foundation’s next DMF Talk featuring Dr. Jack Gilbert will take place Thursday, Oct. 9 at Del Mar Town Hall, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. (wine and light refreshments beginning at 6 p.m.; Talk beginning at 6:30 p.m.).

Gilbert will present “The Microbiome in Precision Medicine: how diet, the microbiome, and the immune system interact.”

This event is free to the public. To ensure enough refreshments and wine for all, registration is requested. Click here to register: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sv/ue2vhWM/DMFT20251009rsvp

Gilbert works at University of California San Diego as a professor in pediatrics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the associate vice chancellor for marine science. Gilbert uses molecular analysis to test fundamental hypotheses in microbial ecology.

He has authored more than 450 peer reviewed publications on microbial ecology, and co-authored “Dirt is Good,” a popular science guide to the microbiome and children’s health. He cofounded the Earth Microbiome Project and American Gut Project, as well as is the founding editor in chief of mSystems journal, according to a news release.

President of Applied Microbiology International, he won the 2023 IFF Microbiome Science Prize, and in 2025 was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology. His research spans human and environmental microbial health, with a special focus on translation. He 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 University of California San Diego, the news release stated.