Gigot, Guillame

Job Title

Darwin Initiative Project Officer

Department

Jodrell

Section

Molecular Systematics

Science Teams:

Joined Kew:

2005

Foreign Language(s):

French (mother tongue), Spanish.

Qualifications & Appointments

BSc, Univ. Montpellier, 1999

MSc, Univ. Montpellier, 2000

MA, Engineering, Inst. Nat. Agronomique, Paris-Grignon, 2002.

Role

Conservation and Monitoring of Meso-American Orchids.

Management of a Darwin Initiative project for the Survival of Central American orchids (DNA Barcoding; Biodiversity monitoring and conservation; fieldwork, etc). Additional duties include the day-to-day running of the molecular systematics laboratory. Other research interests include evolutionary processes and phylogenetic patterns, population biology and Co-evolution & biological interactions.

Selected Recent Publications

  • Pujol, B., Gigot, G., Pinheiro-Kluppel, M., Elias, M., Hossaert-McKey, M. & McKey, D. (2002). Germination ecology of Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae) in agroecosystems: seed and seedling biology of vegetatively propagated domesticated plant. Economic Botany 56(4): 366-379.