About Me
Matthew Gibson, PhD, studies the organization of cells into epithelial sheets to better understand animal development and evolution. Defects in the fundamental control of epithelial cell shape and proliferation, can cause catastrophic developmental abnormalities. To explore the scientific questions of his research, Gibson leverages two model organisms. He uses fruit flies to probe the regulation of epithelial cell shape and proliferation and a starlet sea anemone to develop a comparative and evolutionary perspective on epithelial growth, patterning, and morphogenesis.