Honored to receive the Live Long and Prosper Award from the Nimoy-Knight Foundation.
I grew up inspired by Spock’s logic and Kirk’s boldness, two sides of the scientist’s mindset.
🖖 Live long and prosper.
For those of you interested in our planet and solutions you should read Jo Handelsman's A World Without Soil - it is a pivotal work that should inform agriculture and conservation management globally.
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
A great read on saving endangered microbes (and not just from glaciers)
“The world is at a critical inflection point,” says @gilbertjacka.bsky.social “If we don’t do something now, shit’s going to get real, and microbiology needs to be considered in this space.”
www.noemamag.com/saving-the-l...
We have Red Lists for mammals, birds and trees.
But until now, nothing for microbes
Noema Magazine explores our IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group
The life we cannot see may be the most important life of all.
www.noemamag.com/saving-the-l...
🌎Can science help safeguard Earth’s wildlife? From habitat loss to climate change, species worldwide are under threat. At #SXSW2026, experts explore how biobanking & digital tools give wildlife a lifeline.
🗓 Mar 17 | 4 PM
📍 JW Marriott, Room 201-202
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Episode 1 of #MVIFconversations with @gilbertjacka.bsky.social is here ⬆️
and Episode 2 (which is also awesome) is out on Monday 🤫🤫🤫
i co-teach a research methods in ecology & evolution class and my colleague was lecturing and said "chlorophyll" and immediately my brain went "chlorophyll??? more like borophyll!!!"
Our latest is out today in @plosbiology.org:
"Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of prebiotic and probiotic treatment efficacy across multiple human intervention trials"
@isbscience.org @uwbioe.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
-how @gilbertjacka.bsky.social is featured near the end of @edyong209.bsky.social 's book "I contain multitudes"
-how thermophiles are found in water heaters
-how Beggiatoa has still not come up in any marine microbial census that I've ever seen, because it's so rare
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New paper out from @doctoranastasia.bsky.social with lots of other cool folks (+me) looking at the future requirements for translating microbiome research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A Little Grime Can Boost Kids’ Health. But What Kind? Amber Fyfe Johnson (ireach.wsu.edu/people/amber...) and I talk with Kathleen Davis on @scifri.bsky.social for @npr.org about what kind of 'dirt' may be good for your children's health!
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/dir...
Had great fun writing this paper with some of my #microbiome research heroes! @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @bacterioskeptic.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @sarahlebeer.bsky.social @dbogaert.bsky.social @sligomicrobe.bsky.social & many more 😍🦠🧫
New in Cell Metabolism:
Ketogenic diet protects against septic lung injury through the microbiome:
🥑 KD → enriches L. reuteri & L. plantarum
🧪 Oleic acid → azelaic acid
🫁 AZA → PPAR-γ → MerTK⁺ macrophages
⚖️ Enhanced efferocytosis + neutrophil apoptosis
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
Our new review in Clinical Microbiology & Infection lays out a roadmap for the clinical impact of microbiome research built on:
🔬 scientific credibility
⚖️ regulatory & funding readiness
🤝 stakeholder engagement
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New preprint alert 🚨
Our new bioRxiv preprint (with Brian Layden @ UIC) shows fermentable fiber reshapes gut tryptophan metabolism, lowering indole → indoxyl sulfate and dampening inflammation.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🎖️ The AMI Horizon Awards are open for nominations!
Recognising excellence across applied microbiology these are among the most prestigious honours our field has to offer.
Nominate your colleagues 👉 appliedmicrobiology.org/advocacy-pol...
Triton Sustainability Challenge
A presenter at the Triton Sustainability Challenge
A presenter in front of an audience at the Triton Sustainability Challenge
💡 Hey @ucsandiego.bsky.social innovators, entrepreneurs and sustainability-minded folks—the Triton Sustainability Challenge returns to campus and is now accepting applications! Submit your innovative technology that impacts the environment here: https://bit.ly/3ZeKDYA
It was great discussing with @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
and having Stefanie as a co-host!
I hope you will enjoy it as well!
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In the Episode 1, @cpavloud.bsky.social & Stefanie Malan-Müller welcomed @gilbertjacka.bsky.social!
NEXT episode will be out in February 🤫 & I can't wait to tell you who was my guest.
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New preprint 🧫🍄
Vaginal mycobiome in Hispanic women is diverse, environmentally influenced, and linked to cervical disease severity. High-grade HPV lesions are associated with reduced fungal diversity.
Preprint on bioRxiv:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Just published in BMJ Public Health - longitudinal METS cohort shows rapid increases in obesity, high blood glucose and high blood pressure across African-origin populations in Ghana, South Africa, Jamaica, Seychelles & the U.S.
🔗 bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/1/...
Led by Dottie Dothard we just posted a new preprint showing that socially transferred pain in mice doesn’t just alter neural circuits — it also remodels the gut microbiome of the “bystander” animal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
3️⃣ Scripps-affiliated leaders are featured in San Diego Magazine's 2026 Biggest Movers & Shakers list, recognized for driving bold ideas and shaping the future of our city. Join us in recognizing @minwadhwa.bsky.social, @gilbertjacka.bsky.social and @supervisoraguirre.bsky.social!
bit.ly/49dJkz5
🧪 New resource alert!
The National Sea Urchin Resource Center (NSURC) is now live at UC San Diego 🦔🌊
✔️ Reliable animal supply
✔️ Transgenic lines & tools
✔️ Colony startup support
Powering reproducible biomedical & environmental research with one of our closest invertebrate relatives.
nsurc.ucsd.edu
@gilbertjacka.bsky.social was kind enough to invite me, and many others in the field, to contribute to a perspective article on "Clinical translation in microbiome research" in @natmed.nature.com
The conclusion? We're making breakneck progress, compared to other fields!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
His science exquisitely uncovered profound facets across biology’s subdisciplines. Most importantly, he has gifted a new generation of scientists a profound sense of possibility and mandate: to look beyond the individual organism and understand the world as it truly is.
THOMAS BOSCH's work and mentorship are powerful invitations to young minds to embrace the biggest questions at the very roots of life and to make a positive impact on humanity. Thank you Prof. Bosch, recipient of the annual and inaugural MICROBIOME MEDAL from @psumbiome.bsky.social
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we are multitudes, these bugs are all over you, inside of you, crawling about, digesting bits of you, breeding, #bugs are cool
Exciting news! UC San Diego has launched the new Soil Health Center to drive research and solutions for climate resilience and food security. Dive into how interdisciplinary science is tackling soil health and sustainability: today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...
Deeply care about #conservation?
Then listen to @gilbertjacka.bsky.social from @scrippsocean.bsky.social discuss the importance of microbial conservation as the foundation for all other conservation (including us macrobes).
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/mic...
