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Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Virginia
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Amanda Kyle Gibson is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s department of biology, where she teaches courses on the dynamics of infectious diseases. She received the university’s highest teaching honor for junior faculty, the Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award, as well as the Society for the Study of Evolution’s Huxley Award for her educational contributions to evolutionary biology. Professor Gibson’s federally funded research applies her group’s expertise in evolution to the global challenge posed by infectious diseases. She has been recognized as an outstanding early career biologist by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology’s Maynard Smith Prize and the Society for the Study of Evolution’s Dobzhansky Prize. Gibson received a bachelor of arts degree in biology from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in ecology, evolution and behavior from Indiana University. Before returning to her native Virginia, Professor Gibson trained as an NIH fellow in research and science teaching at Emory University.