Kelsey Galimba |
Dr. Kelsey D. Galimba 2217
Wiltshire Road Appalachian
Fruit Research Station Kearneysville, WV 25430-2771 Education
and Degrees 2015 Ph.D - Floral
Evolution and Development. University of Washington, Seattle, WA Dissertation: Duplication and Functional Divergence
in the Floral Organ Identity Genes 2007 B.S. - Plant Biology. University of California,
Davis, CA 2005 A.S - Biology.
Sierra College, Rocklin, CA Experience Post-Doctoral
Associate (October 2015 - Present) Ann Callahan Lab, USDA-ARS, Appalachian Fruit
Research Station (AFRS), Kearneysville, WV. Comparative morphological and genetic study of fruit flesh development in
four Rosaceous species with different fruit types. Developmental
Biology Trainee (NIH) / Research Assistant (July 2012 - 2015) / (September
2009 – 2015) Veronica Di Stilio Lab, Department of
Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Characterization
of duplicated floral organ identity genes in the basal eudicot Thalictrum, using an evo-devo
approach. Supervision of
a large-scale rice genomics project to generate insertion lines for use in gene
identification and analysis. Laboratory
Assistant (July 2006 - June
2007) Donald Strong Lab, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of
California, Davis, CA. Genotyping of Spartina
samples to identify invasive and hybrid species present in the San
Francisco Bay area. Publications Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-khLqPMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kelsey_Galimba Current
Projects Developmental
mechanisms underlying fleshy fruit diversity in Rosaceae The
family Rosaceae is comprised of a number of
economically important fruit and ornamental crop species which exhibit an
impressive diversity of independently-derived fleshy fruit morphologies. In
collaboration with the University of Maryland, we are comparing the development
of four types of fleshy fruits from Rosaceae:
peaches, apples, raspberries and strawberries. We are interested in determining
what specific genes and regulatory gene networks have evolved to initiate and
specify fleshy tissue development, which originates in different floral parts
for each fruit type. At AFRS, we are focusing on the two tree crops: peaches,
with flesh arising from the ovary wall, and apples, with a core formed by the
ovary wall and flesh derived from the hypanthium. We are taking a number of
approaches to characterize each fruit type, including creating comparative
developmental ontogenies, analyzing gene expression patterns across different
tissue types and developmental stages, and exploring how the application of
exogenous plant hormones affects early fruit development.
Innovative Fruit Production, Improvement and Protection
Post-doctoral Researcher Kelsey.Galimba@ars.usda.gov
Phone: (304) 725-3451 ext. 367
Fax: (304) 728-7232
Room 429Junior Specialist II (June
2007 - August 2009) Venkatesan Sundaresan
Lab, Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, CA.