After nomination from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, our lab leader Gonzalo Giribet received a Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa from the University of Copenhagen! Congrats, Dr. Dr. Giribet!

News page from the University of Copenhagen: Leading researcher in evolution to be bestowed with an honorable doctorate

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 here.

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, were recognized from the initial investigations of the acquired samples, though more are expected. Also, several specimens of pseudoscorpions were found, of which species is yet to be determined. No pseudoscorpions have been described from the Park yet.

Congratulations to Caitlin Baker and Julia Cosgrove, graduate students in the Giribet Lab, who were awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Announcing the latest issue of the Amphipod Newsletter (AN 36).  Download PDF

The description of three new tropical families of arachnids and a phylogeny of the suborder Laniatores by graduate student Prashant Sharma of the Giribet Lab is featured on the cover of Invertebrate Systematics.

Adam Baldinger, Curatorial Associate in the MCZ Department of Invertebrate Zoology, becomes co-editor of the Amphipod Newsletter (AN 35). Download PDF

Second International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology hosted by MCZ, OEB and HMNH from June 20-23, 2011. The conference connected researchers interested in the morphology and evolution of invertebrate animals.

Graduate student, Prashant Sharma, received the Willi Hennig Award for the best oral presentation by a student at the May 2010 meeting of the Willi Hennig Society. The international organization promotes the field of phylogenetic systematics. 5/25/2010

Graduate student, Prashant Sharma, received the Don Rosen award of the Willi Henning Society for his talk at the Hennig XXVII International Meeting in Tucuman, Argentina. 10/31/2008.

Professor Gonzalo Giribet's phylogenomic sampling research is improving the resolution of the animal tree of life and is featured as the cover story in the journal Nature. PDF.

Professor Gonzalo Giribet explained the role of mite harvestmen in National Geographic Channel's Naked Science: "Supercontinent" episode. 

Professor Gonzalo Giribet's life work in diversity is profiled in Harvard Science. 

Prof. Gonzalo Giribet work hunting tiny daddy longlegs to explain continental shifts featured in The New York Times.

Daddy longlegs have a global reach in Prof. Gonzalo Giribet's study of evolution, diversity, and environmental management. Harvard Gazette 10/2/2002