Matt Gibson

Dr. Matt Gibson, Ph.D.

Evolutionary Cell Biologist and Champion of Coral Reefs

Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Matt Gibson is a principal investigator and president of the graduate school at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. His research program focuses on anthozoan cnidarians, including corals and sea anemones.

Dr. Gibson’s lab has pioneered experimental approaches to the study of anemones, generating insights into nervous systems, body plans, and cell functions. His team’s research on reef-building corals has resulted in the rare achievement of coral spawning in a lab setting. The promise of this work is in establishing a foundation for preserving ecologically critical marine species.

Raised in rural Vermont, Dr. Gibson earned his B.S. in Biology from Yale and graduate degrees from the University of Washington, with a fellowship to conduct postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School in the lab of Norbeert Perrimon.