She holds cross-appointments in the Department of Biochemistry and the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research. Gilbert received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Valerie Weaver and then pursued Postdoctoral studies with Helen Blau at Stanford University. Her team engineers and studies three-dimensional models of human skeletal muscle and explores muscle stem cell mechanobiology with the goal of identifying signaling pathways that can be tweaked to boost the function of skeletal muscle stem cells in the body. She is recipient of an Ontario Early Researcher Award and a BMES-CMBE Conference ‘Rising Star’ Award. She holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Endogenous Repair.