DMF Talk: Dr. Sarah Allard, Leveraging the microbiome for precision health and food security
October 9, 2025 @ 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Dr. Sarah Allard
Food as Medicine:
Leveraging the microbiome for precision health and food security.
Note: Sarah Allard will now be presenting in place of Dr. Jack Gilbert who had an unexpected change in his schedule.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
6:00pm – 8:00pm
6:00pm: Wine & Light Refreshments
6:30pm: DMFTalk
TOWN HALL
Del Mar Civic Center
1050 Camino Del Mar
Dr. Sarah Allard
Dr. Sarah Allard is a Project Scientist at the University of California San Diego, where she studies the role of the microbiome in a range of environments, including the human body, the built environment, aquatic ecosystems, and agricultural soils. Through the NIH’s Nutrition for Precision Health program, she is working with researchers across the country to understand the key factors that influence individualized responses to diet and work toward developing tailored interventions that improve health and decrease the burden of diet-related diseases. She has an extensive background in food safety and microbiology, having worked at the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and completed her PhD and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland in plant science and public health. Sarah is the Executive Director of UCSD’s new Soil Health Center, which seeks to rapidly and meaningfully improve the state of the world’s soils through interdisciplinary innovation and community engagement, improving food security and climate resilience.
