Gabriela Sheets

Background

Dr. Gabriela Sheets earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in from Emory University. She received the Society for Medical Anthropology’s Dissertation Award for her 2017 dissertation on “The Developmental Ecology of the Infant Microbiome”. The Committee described her work as a “novel meshing of anthropology and biology to explore an emerging area of general interest,” and thought it would likely “make important contributions well beyond the medical anthropology community.” Her interdisciplinary research on the development of the infant gut microbiome earned her other grants and awards from the Earth Microbiome Project, U.S. Fulbright, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. 

Dr. Sheets is currently the founder of Lumbiota Integrative Health, a research and education-focused consulting company aimed at improving individual knowledge of the microbiome through personalized consultations. 

Her previous work included teaching university courses in evolution, disease ecology, nutrition, microbiomics, and human developmental ecology. She has also worked for multiple laboratories in the past including Knight Laboratory, the Laboratory for Comparative Human Biology, and the Laboratory for Darwinian Neuroscience.

EDUCATION

• MS – Emory University – 2013
• PhD – Emory University – 2017

PUBLICATIONS & Projects

• Thompson, Luke & Sanders, Jon & Mcdonald, Daniel & Amir, Amnon & Ladau, Joshua & Locey, Kenneth & Prill, Robert & Tripathi, Anupriya & Gibbons, Sean & Ackermann, Gail & Navas-Molina, Jose & Janssen, Stefan & Kopylova, Evguenia & Vázquez-Baeza, Yoshiki & González, Antonio & Morton, James & Mirarab, Siavash & Xu, Zhenjiang & Jiang, Lingjing & Zhao, Hongxia. (2017). A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity. Nature. 551. 457–463. 10.1038/nature24621.
• Harper, Kristin & Sheets, Gabriela & Armelagos, George. (2016). Modifying Our Microbial Environment: From the Advent of Agriculture to the Age of Antibiotic Resistance. 10.1002/9781118786949.ch18.
• Sheets, Gabriela. (2013). Aiding and abetting: a new perspective on life history theory x 10(13) GM Sheets. American Journal of Human Biology. 25. 274-274.