Here are Dr. Gibbons slides.
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On Friday, June 16th at Town Hall Seattle, Drs. Lee Hood and Nathan Price will be in conversation with Institute for Systems Biology President Jim Heath about their new book The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands. That will include a live-stream option. The talk begins at 7:30pm followed by book signing (books will be on sale in the lobby). Register to attend on-line or in-person here.
If you are able to join the speakers for a 6pm VIP reception (including valet parking) please contact erika.kreger@isbscience.org for details. In addition to Drs. Jim Heath, Lee Hood and Nathan Price, ISB faculty members Sean Gibbons, Alice Kane, and Naeha Subramanian (experts in the microbiome, aging, and infectious disease respectively) will also be attending the reception, along with Claudia Ludwig and Caroline Kiehle from our STEM education team. So it will be a nice opportunity for guests to catch up with many ISB leaders.
Sean is an expert in the microbiome and has received a lot of general press attention for findings about the impact the microbiome has on people’s response to statin drugs and the way a changing gut microbiome may predict how we age.
Sean received his Ph.D. in biophysical sciences from the University of Chicago in 2015. His graduate work focused on using microbial communities as empirical models for testing ecological theory. He completed his postdoctoral training at MIT from 2015-2018. His postdoctoral work focused on developing techniques to quantify individual-specific eco-evolutionary dynamics within the human gut microbiome.
Gibbons was awarded a Fulbright Graduate Fellowship to study microbiology and synthetic biology at Uppsala University in Sweden, where he earned a master’s degree in 2010. His Ph.D. work was supported by an EPA STAR Graduate Fellowship. Upon joining the ISB faculty in 2018, his startup package was supported, in part, by a Washington Research Foundation Distinguished Investigator Award.
Microbial communities are complex (i.e. many interacting species) and adaptive (i.e., evolving). Complex, adaptive systems continually reorganize themselves in response to the environment. Sean investigates how the structure and composition of evolving ecological networks of microorganisms change across environmental gradients. In particular, he is interested in how ecological communities in the gut change and adapt to individual people over their lifespans (i.e., host genotype, host development and host behavior) and how these changes impact human health. His lab develops computational and experimental tools for investigating host-associated microbial communities to explore the interactions between ecology, evolution and ecosystem function, applying these insights to develop personalized interventions for improving human health and well-being.
ISB & SSF Present- Dr. Sean Gibbons Explains the Microbiome (4min)
https://townhallseattle.org/event/dr-jack-gilbert-with-dr-sean-gibbons/
The Gut Microbiome’s Supersized Role In Shaping Our Metabolome 11/10/22 (4min)