GEHAN LAB - Key Persons
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- in 2017 As an Undergraduate Researcher
Anastasia Shamin- Is an undergraduate at UMSL and a graduate of St. Louis Community College. Anastasia joined the Gehan Lab in 2017 as an undergraduate researcher.
Anna Casto, Ph.D.- Joined the Gehan lab in May 2019 as a postdoctoral researcher. Anna got her Ph.D. in John Mullet's Lab at Texas A&M University and her B.S. in Biology and Biochemistry at Calvin College.
Carlos Quillatupa- Joined the Gehan lab in September 2018 as a Technician. Carlos graduated from La Molina National Agrarian University (Peru) with a degree in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Elizabeth Castillo, M.S.- Joined the Gehan lab in September 2016 as a Senior Technician. She has a B.S. in Biology with a specialization in Biotechnology from La Molina National Agrarian University (Peru). Elizabeth earned her M.S. in Environmental Science from Arkansas State University in 2015 with a thesis titled "Assessing Foliar ascorbate content in a rice diversity panel and selecting mapping population lines with varying levels of seedling cold tolerance" in Argelia Lorence's lab. Through her work in the Lorence Lab, Elizabeth has unique phenotyping expertise that she will bring to the Gehan Lab. Check back for more on Elizabeth's work in the Gehan Lab soon.
Jose Tovar, Ph.D.- Joined the Gehan lab in September 2016. He has his M.S. in Plant Breeding and a B.S. in Biology with a specialization in biotechnology from La Molina National Agrarian University (Peru). Jose completed his Ph.D. in Molecular Biosciences at Arkansas State University in 2016 in Brett Savary's lab with a dissertation titled "Development of the thermally tolerant pectin methylesterase for an innovative application in biomass processing". Jose has previously been part of large multinational projects through his work at the International Potato Center in Peru, Kenya, and Uganda. Check back for more on Jose's work in the Gehan Lab soon.
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- Assistant Member and Principal
Malia Gehan, Ph.D. is an Assistant Member and Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, who focuses on improving resistance to temperature stress. 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!). 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. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her husband (Jackson), daughter (Aiko) and sassy cat, Meowming.
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- NSF REU Intern. Currently: Software Developer, Bayer Crop Science
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- Undergraduate Researcher, Currently
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- Postdotoral Researcher. Currently: Data Scientist, Bayer Crop Science
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- Postdoctoral Researcher. Currently: US State Regulatory Affairs Manager, Bayer Crop Science