Articles and Videos about the Lab
January 8, 2026
A nice story from the Whitehead communications team about our method to induce random structural variation in plants.
October 8, 2024
Community Jameel visits to learn more from postdoc Sonia Boor about our JWAFS-funded project.
July 23, 2024
Mary is named an HHMI Investigator. Check out the stories here and here and here.
May 14, 2024
Whitehead Institute: A day in the life of graduate student and plant scientist Carly Martin
September-December 2023
Mary participated in the MIT-Nord Anglia Build Better Plants Challenge: Project Overview, Questions and Answers, Final Project Reactions
July 10, 2023
Whitehead Institute: Whitehead Institute establishes the David Baltimore Chair in Biomedical Research
May 10, 2023
February 28, 2023
Whitehead Institute: Cultivating better plants
September 27, 2022
Whitehead Institute Video: Spring/Summer 2022 Research Highlights from Whitehead Institute
April 28, 2022
Whitehead Institute: Gehring discusses new climate change project
April 7, 2022
Whitehead Institute: The adults are talking: parental genetic conflict in seed development
March 29, 2022
MIT News: How molecular biology could reduce global food insecurity
February 15, 2022
Whitehead Institute: Whitehead Initiative on the Biology and Health of Climate Change undertakes multifaceted project on resilient food crops
January 11, 2022
Whitehead Institute: Uncovering the mysteries of methylation in plants
December 3, 2020
Whitehead Institute: Feeding a changing world
Nature's library: The value of biodiversity to biological research
July 4, 2020
Whitehead Institute: Multimedia Feature: Unusual labmates: The world’s smallest water lily
June 26, 2020
Whitehead Institute: Two Whitehead Institute Members Named to Endowed Professorships
December 14, 2019
MIT News: Mary Gehring: Using flowering plants to explore epigenetic inheritance
August 9, 2019
Whitehead Institute: Meet a Whitehead Postdoc: Rebecca Povilus
May 23, 2019
Whitehead Institute: Epigenetics: Chemical guideposts for gene expression
April 29, 2019
Whitehead Institute: Meet a Whitehead Postdoc: Satyaki Rajavasireddy