[1] She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie in Tübingen, Germany.

[2] After earning her doctorate, she completed a fellowship at the Max Planck Institute before returning to the United States and establishing her own laboratory.

Between 1998 and 2001, she published research detailing a method to determine the nucleotide where DNA replication begins for a gene and showed that in yeast and other eukaryotes, this site is adjacent to the origin recognition complex binding site.

[4][5] Gerbi also received the State of Rhode Island Governor's award for Scientific Excellence.

[7] Gerbi is a founding board member of the Rosalind Franklin Society, which was formed in 2007.