Toby James Gibson is a group leader and biochemist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg[1][3] known for his work on Clustal.
[6] Gibson was educated at the University of Edinburgh[7] and went on to his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1984 on the genome of the Epstein–Barr virus[8] while working in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).
[7] Gibson was a postdoctoral research fellow with Sydney Brenner before moving to EMBL in 1986.
[7] He was appointed a staff scientist in 1991 and a team leader in 1996 where he has worked since.
[1] His laboratory developed and hosts the Eukaryotic Linear Motif (ELM) resource.