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{{Infobox scientist
 * name             = Kate May Creasey
 * image            =
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 * caption          = Dr. K. M. Creasey


 * birth_place      = Lincoln, England
 * death_date       =
 * death_place      =
 * residence        = America
 * citizenship      = British
 * nationality      = British
 * field            = molecular biologist
 * work_institutions = {{Plainlist|
 * University of Leicester
 * The University of Edinburgh
 * Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
 * Grow More Foundation
 * Stony Brook University}}


 * alma_mater       = The University of Edinburgh (BSc)
 * thesis_title = Investigating the roles of Arabidopsis polycomb-group genes in regulating flowering time and during plant development by (I) challenging silencing and (II) developing approaches to dissect Pc-G action
 * thesis_url = https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/4025
 * thesis_year =2009
 * doctoral_advisor = Dr. W. Justin Goodrich


 * known_for        = {{Plainlist|
 * Plant Epigenetics
 * Plant Biology

Dr. Kate M. Creasey is a British plant geneticist and molecular biologist. She is the President of Grow More Foundation, a non-governmental organization, registered 501(c)(3) non-profit.

Early life and Education
Kate Creasey was born and grew up in the countryside of Lincolnshire, England. She read Immunology at the University of Leicester class of 2005.

In 2009, she earned her Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy in Cellular and Molecular Biology from The University of Edinburgh.

Career
As a graduate student at The University of Edinburgh, working with Prof. W. Justin Goodrich, Creasey cloned the polycomb-group gene Curly Leaf within several inducible expression systems to elucidate basic action. She uncovered how target gene repression was regulated by histone modifications.

As a postdoctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, working with Prof. Robert A. Martienssen, Dr. Creasey utilized several whole-genome approaches to elucidate how transposons were regulated when the epigenome was perturbed. Notably, her and colleagues discovered a novel microRNA pathway that targeted transposon transcripts promoting epigenetically-activated siRNA biogenesis, contributing to the basic understanding of epigenetic regulation of transposons in plants.

For over a decade she has lectured and mentored undergraduate and graduate students. She joined the faculty of Stony Brook University as an Adjunct Professor of Statistics and Molecular Biology in 2016.

In 2017 she founded and currently serves as President of Grow More Foundation. Her philanthropic efforts stem from the belief that nobody should go hungry, that all should have access to safe and affordable food. That starvation and malnutrition are a disease and that plants can be the cure.

At an FDA meeting in 2018 she clearly stated that all biotechnology should first be transparently and independently assessed by scientist for safety and potential environmental impacts.