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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Nicole King, Ph.D., professor, department of molecular and cell biology, division of genetics, genomics and development, University of California, Berkeley; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Speaker bio(s)

The first animals evolved in oceans dominated by bacteria, and bacteria continue to shape the biology of all animals, including ourselves. How do these interactions work? An enigmatic group of marine organisms called choanoflagellates may help reveal conserved mechanisms by which bacterial cues influence animal biology.

 

Dr. King’s laboratory seeks to reconstruct the origin of animals and elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which bacteria influence eukaryotic biology. Her research has led to the establishment of choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals, as experimentally tractable organisms for the molecular, cellular, and genomics era.

 

Dr. King received her B.S. from Indiana University and her Ph.D. from Harvard University before conducting postdoctoral research with Dr. Sean Carroll at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She joined the University of California, Berkeley, faculty in 2003. She is the recipient of several honors, including a Pew Fellowship in the Biomedical Sciences and the George A. Bartholomew Award for research in comparative physiology, both in 2004; a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2005; and an honorary degree from Lehigh University in 2015. Dr. King is also a senior fellow in the Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Open to

Public

Host

Daniel Kronauer

Reception

Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge

Contact

Linda Hanssler

Phone

(212) 327-7714

Sponsor

Linda Hanssler
(212) 327-7714
lhanssler@rockefeller.edu

Readings

http://librarynews.rockefeller.edu/?p=4177