Sep 17, 2026 · 53 min · 10 segments
Life Unculturable is back! We're kicking things off after a short summer break with versatile guest with fascinating stories: Dr. Jack Gilbert, Professor at the University of California San Diego…
Jack GilbertGuestSamHostJuliaHostPull up a chair, take out the oxygen, and join the discussion.
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The world where conversations grow faster than colonies.
We're your hosts, Sam and Julia.
Scientists by day.
Podcasts by night.
And professional oxygen avoiders 24-7.
Join us in exploring the science of microbes that thrive in the absence of oxygen on Life
Ladies and germs, today it is our very distinct honor to have Dr. Jack Gilbert with us on the podcast here on Life Unculturable, chatting all things anoxic.
And so, in case you're unaware, Jack probably, if something has a microbiome, if it can be sequenced, he's probably sequenced it.
And so we are absolutely thrilled today to sit down with him and to pick his brain on all things FMTs.
More on what that abbreviation means in just a minute, so...
Jack, how are you doing today? And thank you so much for joining us.
Lovely to be here, and I'm doing well.
Yeah, it's good to have you on.
This episode might not be safe for work with FMTs, but we'll chat about that a bit more later, right?
That's true.
So you might pause on that acai bowl, folks, if you're about to partake.
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Pull up a chair, take out the oxygen, and join the discussion.
You've just stepped into Life Unculturable.
The world where conversations grow faster than colonies.
We're your hosts, Sam and Julia.
Scientists by day.
Podcasts by night.
And professional oxygen avoiders 24-7.
Join us in exploring the science of microbes that thrive in the absence of oxygen on Life
Ladies and germs, today it is our very distinct honor to have Dr. Jack Gilbert with us on the podcast here on Life Unculturable, chatting all things anoxic.
And so, in case you're unaware, Jack probably, if something has a microbiome, if it can be sequenced, he's probably sequenced it.
And so we are absolutely thrilled today to sit down with him and to pick his brain on all things FMTs.
More on what that abbreviation means in just a minute, so...
Jack, how are you doing today? And thank you so much for joining us.
Lovely to be here, and I'm doing well.
Yeah, it's good to have you on.
This episode might not be safe for work with FMTs, but we'll chat about that a bit more later, right?
That's true.
So you might pause on that acai bowl, folks, if you're about to partake.
