Dr.malia Gehan
Research Assistant Member
Department of Plant Science
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
United States of America
Biography
Malia earned her Ph.D. in Plant Biology at Michigan State University Plant Research labs with Dr. Mike Thomashow examining natural variation in freezing tolerance and the integration of the circadian clock with cold signaling. As an undergraduate researcher in Biology at Willamette University she studied thermoinhibition of growth and development of guard cell protoplasts with Dr. J. Gary Tallman. Malia grew up in Kaneohe, Hawaii where there is very little change in temperature, which is probably why she is so interested in temperature signaling. Most recently, she was a Research Scientist in the Mockler Lab (Danforth Center) and a NSF-PGRP Postdoctoral Fellow. During her Postdoctoral research she focused on developing tools for high-throughput phenotyping. Through work on phenotyping, she and colleagues started a Maker Group at the Danforth Center that focuses on developing low-cost phenotyping tools, and fun outreach events (Raspberry Jams!).
Research Interest
" Malia’s research develops high-throughput methods of phenotyping plants to identify natural variation in response to temperature stress and to learn about how plants interact with their environment."
Publications
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Fahlgren N, Feldman M, Gehan MA, Wilson MS, Shyu C, Bryant DW, Hill ST, McEntee CJ, Warnasooriya SN, Kumar I, Ficor T. A versatile phenotyping system and analytics platform reveals diverse temporal responses to water availability in Setaria. Molecular plant. 2015 Oct 5;8(10):1520-35.
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Fahlgren N, Gehan MA, Baxter I. Lights, camera, action: high-throughput plant phenotyping is ready for a close-up. Current opinion in plant biology. 2015 Apr 30;24:93-9.
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Gehan MA, Greenham K, Mockler TC, McClung CR. Transcriptional networks—crops, clocks, and abiotic stress. Current opinion in plant biology. 2015 Apr 30;24:39-46.
