Marcus Thomas Pius Gilbert (also known as Tom Gilbert, and publishing as M Thomas P Gilbert) is an

evolutionary biologist Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life fo ...

. His work is very highly cited, and influential in the fields of palaeogenomics, evolutionary genomics and evolutionary

hologenomics Hologenomics is the omics study of hologenomes. A hologenome is the whole set of genomes of a holobiont, an organism together with all co-habitating microbes, other life forms, and viruses. While the term hologenome originated from the hologenome th ...

. He is currently the Director of the University of Copenhagen'
Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics
He received a BA in Biological Sciences at

Oriel College Oriel College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford (a title formerly claimed by University College, w ...

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in 2000, and a D.Phil. (

Doctor of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

) from the Zoology Dept and at New College,

in 2004 under

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. Subsequently, he was a post-doctoral fellow with

Michael Worobey Michael Worobey is a Canadian evolutionary biologist, and a professor and department head of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He has done important work in the study of the evolution of HIV-1, which demonstrated the e ...

at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at the

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, where he undertook genetic analyses on samples containing some of the earliest recorded

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infected tissues. In 2005, he became an Assistant Professor at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...

, where he has been Professor of Palaeogenomics since 2011, initially at the

Natural History Museum of Denmark The Natural History Museum of Denmark ( da, Statens Naturhistoriske Museum) is a natural history museum located in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was created as a 1 January 2004 merger of Copenhagen's Zoological Museum This is a list of natural his ...

, and subsequently at th
GLOBE Institute
In 2020 he founded and became the first Director of th
https://dg.dk/Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics
He is also a Professor II at

NTNU University Museum The NTNU University Museum ( no, Vitenskapsmuseet) in Trondheim is one of seven Norwegian university museums with natural and cultural history collections and exhibits. The museum has research and administrative responsibility over archaeology an ...

(Trondheim, Norway). He is currently an Associate Editor of the journals
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health
and ''

Methods in Ecology and Evolution ''Methods in Ecology and Evolution'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering methodologies in ecology and evolution. It was established in 2010 and is the 5th journal of the British Ecological Society. It is published by Wiley-Black ...

'', and a former editor of the journals PLOS One
Environmental DNAOpen Quaternary
an
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
He is a member of the Editorial Board for ''

Current Biology ''Current Biology'' is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers all areas of biology, especially molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, neurobiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. The journal includes research articles, va ...

''. and an elected member of the

Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters ({{Lang-da, Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab or ''Videnskabernes Selskab'') is a Danish academy of science. The Royal Danish Academy was established on November 13, 1742, and was created ...

Publications

As of January 2022 he was the author of ca. 390 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

References

External links

* https://globe.ku.dk/research/evogenomics/gilbert-group/ * https://ceh.ku.dk/ * https://globe.ku.dk/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius Evolutionary biologists Living people Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Alumni of New College, Oxford 1977 births People from Hammersmith