Dr. Matt Gibson received his first research experience in developmental and cell biology as an undergraduate at Yale University.  He then completed a Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he received the Genetics Society of America’s Larry Sandler award for his work on regeneration and epithelial cell biology in the fruit fly Drosophila.  Upon graduation in 2001, Dr. Gibson took a position as a Jane Coffin Childs foundation postdoctoral fellow with renowned geneticist Norbert Perrimon at Harvard Medical School.  Since 2006, Dr. Gibson has been an investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research where he continues his research on epithelial biology and animal development while serving as Dean of the Graduate School, an editor of the journal Developmental Biology, and a frequent lecturer at universities and conferences throughout the world.