Education
Gilbert received his Bachelor degrees in Biochemistry/Cell Biology and Philosophy from the University of California at San Diego and his Doctor of Philosophy in Genetics from Stanford University.
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Career
Gilbert’s work focuses on the mechanisms regulating deoxyribonucleic acid replication during the cell cycle and the relationship between deoxyribonucleic acid replication and structural and functional organization of chromosomes, most recently during differentiation in human and mouse embryonic stem cells and in pediatric leukemia. He did two post-doctoral training periods, first as an European Molecular Biology Organization Fellow with Pierre Chambon in Strasbourg, France, studying transcriptional control, and second as a Roche Fellow with Melvin DePamphilis studying replication origin recognition. He joined the faculty at State University of New York (State University of New York) Upstate Medical University in 1994 and was appointed full professor in 2003.
In 2006, he moved to Florida State University for his current endowed chair position and was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) in 2008 and then elected as a council delegate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010, as well as to the American Society of Hematology in 2013 and the International Society for Stem Cell Research in 2014.
Gilbert’s other awards include the American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award (2000), the State University of New York President's Young Investigator Award (2002), the National Institutes of Health Career Enhancement Award for Stem Cell Research (2004) Florida State University Distinguished Research Professor (2015) and the Pfeiffer Endowed Professorship for Cancer Research (2015). He also maintains ReplicationDomain, a free online database resource for storing, sharing and visualizing deoxyribonucleic acid replication timing and other chromosome mapping data.
Membership
He is a principal investigator in the National Institutes of Health Encyclopedia of deoxyribonucleic acid Elements (ENCODE) Consortium and is a board member of the Southeast Stem Cell Consortium (SESCC). He has served on American Cancer Society (1996–2004) and National Institutes of Health study sections (1997–present) and is an editorial member of the Epigenetics Society and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Cell Biology.
