Later in her career she developed expertise in molecular biology technologies through spending two years at the Netherlands Cancer Institute collaborating with Piet Borst.
She has applied a wide range of technologies for determining identification and diversity, including morphology, genetics, proteins, molecular biology and genomic data.
[3] Further development allowed details of genetic recombination during sexual reproduction of T. brucei within its tsetse fly host to be identified.
[6] She was a member of the consortium that provided the first genome sequence of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense[7][8] and T. grayi, a parasite of crocodiles.
These include: In 1995 Gibson was awarded the third Albert Dubois prize for Tropical Pathology from the Belgian Academy of Medicine for work on genetic exchange in trypanosomes.