Mary Gehring

Mary Gehring is an American plant biologist and epigeneticist. She runs the Gehring Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which focuses on epigenetics, and also works as an associate professor in the biology department at MIT. She graduated from Williams College and received her PhD from University of California, Berkeley.
Gehring joined the Whitehead Institute in 2010. She earned her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, after which she did postdoctoral research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; she is a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. She was chosen as one of "Cell"s 40 under 40 for the journal's 40th anniversary.
She cites Marie Curie as the one scientist who most fascinated her, and credits "[w]anting to help feed the world" as the inspiration for getting into plant biology.