Today Dr. Jack Gilbert, Professor of Pediatrics and of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, chats with us about his MANY interests in microbiology, from human health to marine environments.

Host: Mark O. Martin

Guest: Jack Gilbert

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Links for this episode

• Marley and Murtle’s Etsy shop, which created my glow in the dark needle felted tardigrade.
• My wife Dr. Jennifer Quinn’s Wikipedia page and blog.
• Ethan Kocak’s fine artwork is found at his website. 
• An overview of the BLAST program used for sequence analysis.
• An overview of RDP Classifier, no longer online, but can be downloaded to your own computer.  
• A brief biography of JBS Haldane, and the story of his wonderful quote about beetles.  
• A nice overview of microbiology and social equity, from the ASM website.
• Dr. Susan Ishaq’s working group of microbiology and social equity.  
• A great short video about Dr. Jack Gilbert’s interests and philosophy.
• Dr. Jack Gilbert’s profile at UC San Diego, and his faculty website at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
• Dr. Jack Gilbert’s laboratory website.

Intro music is by Reber Clark

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