Greg Gibson

Greg Gibson grew up in Canberra, Australia, and did his undergraduate degree in Biology at the University of Sydney. He moved to Basel, Switzerland, for his PhD on the specificity of homeotic genes in Drosophila, and then to Stanford for postdoctoral research, where his interests turned to the quantitative genetics of development in flies. After a year at Duke University he took up a junior faculty position at the University of Michigan, where he received a David and Lucille Packard Foundation fellowship that was the key to establishing his research program. He moved to the Genetics Department at North Carolina State University, also as an Assistant Professor, in 1998, where he adopted genomics approaches to quantitative evolutionary genetics. Together with Spencer Muse, he wrote ‘A Primer of Genome Science’, published by Sinauer Associates, now in its second edition. He is currently conducting research on association studies and quantitative transcription profiling in relation to morphogenesis and physiology on Drosophila, with a growing interested in canine genomics as well.