Giribet lab members celebrated Spring and congratulated the graduating PhD students in the Department of OEB! 

In honor of International Women in Science day (today!) the women of the Giribet lab took a moment away from their science to capture this wonderful group photo. Go Women in Science!

Prof. Giribet's discovery of two 99 million year-old daddy longlegs, enshrined in Burmese amber, not only helps explain the penis morphology of the harvestman, it also confirms a new extinct family of harvestmen. Full Story here and  Read more about Prof. Giribet Discovers New Extinct Family of Harvestmen

Congratulations to Prof. Gonzalo Giribet for being selected the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Invertebrate Systematics.

The Giribet lab attended the Museum of Comparative Zoology's Open House on November 17.

Rosa Fernandez and Gonzalo Giribet's paper:  "Unnoticed in the tropics: phylogenomic resolution of the poorly-known arachnid order Ricinulei (Arachnida)" was accepted to the Royal Society Open Science .

From May 4^th to May 9^th Postdoctoral researcher Dennis K. Persson and PhD student Julia G. Cosgrove, of the Giribet Lab, conducted field work in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The aim were to collect tardigrades (Tardigrada) and pseudoscorpions (Arthropoda: Arachnida). Tardigrades would be extracted from mosses and lichens under microscope, whereas pseudoscorpions would be found by sifting of leaf litter. A number of tardigrade species, such as Macrobiotus Islandicus, Echiniscus virginicus, Paramacrobiotus tonollii and Milnesium, Read more about Collecting specimens, Great Smoky Mountains National Park