Download a podcast of Professor Gonzalo Giribet’s presentation on “New approaches to resolving deep phylogenetic questions in animal evolution”, presented by the Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity on Friday 7th October.

Gonzalo Giribet

Gonzalo Giribet is a Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Curator of Invertebrates in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard University.

His primary research focuses is on the evolution and biogeography of invertebrate animals. Current projects include a multidisciplinary study to “Assembling the Protostome Tree of Life”, a project on the “Systematics, Biogeography and Evolutionary Radiations of Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida, Opiliones)” and a collabortive PEET sponsored research project on “Systematics and Monography of Araneoid Spiders”. Prof. Giribet is also interested in philosophical aspects of sequence data analysis, emphasizing homology-related issues.