# Gonzalo Giribet Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology Curator-in-Charge of Invertebrate Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology ![gonzalo_giribet.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5781/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/giribetlab/files/gonzalo_giribet.jpeg?itok=11ZYe6VH) location\_on Museum of Comparative Zoology Labs, Rm. 502 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617-495-1473](tel:617-495-1473) email laptop\_windows [Giribet Group](/) My primary research focuses on the evolution and biogeography of invertebrate animals. In the lab we use genomic, transcriptomic, and morphological data from living and extinct animals to better understand invertebrate evolution. Most of our work focuses on arthropods and on mollusks, but we also investigate many other groups of invertebrates, including nemerteans, sponges, annelids, onychophorans and the so-called “minor phyla”. Current NSF-funded projects include [Collaborative Research: Phylogeny and diversification of the orb weaving spiders (Araneae)](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1457539&HistoricalAwards=false) **Recent Publications** Fernández, R., and Giribet, G. (2015). Unnoticed in the tropics: phylogenomic resolution of the poorly known arachnid order Ricinulei (Arachnida). *Royal Society Open Science* **2**, 150065. doi:10.1098/rsos.150065 Giribet, G. (2015). New Animal Phylogeny: Future challenges for animal phylogeny in the age of phylogenomics. *Organisms Diversity & Evolution*. doi:10.1007/s13127-015-0236-4 Giribet, G., and Sharma, P. P. (2015). Evolutionary biology of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). *Annual Review of Entomology* **60**, 157-175. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-010814-021028 Groh, S., and Giribet, G. (2015). Polyphyly of Caddoidea, reinstatement of the family Acropsopilionidae in Dyspnoi, and a revised classification system of Palpatores (Arachnida, Opiliones). *Cladistics* **31**, 277-290. doi:10.1111/cla.12087 Laumer, C. E., Bekkouche, N., Kerbl, A., Goetz, F., Neves, R. C., Sørensen, M. V., Kristensen, R. M., Hejnol, A., Dunn, C. W., Giribet, G., and Worsaae, K. (2015). Spiralian phylogeny informs the evolution of microscopic lineages.*Current Biology* **25**, 2000-2006. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.068 **Courses Taught** OEB 91R Supervised Reading OEB 99R Supervised Research OEB 181 Systematics OEB 310 Metazoan Systematics - ## People Categories [Principal Investigator](/people-categories/principal-investigator)