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Nicole King (Berkeley)

Light regulated morphogenesis in a shape-shifting choanoflagellate

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Nicole King, Berkeley

Nicole King

Nicole King received her B.S. in Biology from Indiana University and her Ph.D. from Harvard University under the mentorship of Prof. Rich Losick.  In 2000, she began studying choanoflagellates as a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Sean Carroll at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  She started her lab at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003, where she is a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  She is interested in gaining mechanistic insights into the origin of animals.

Host: Burkhardt/Hejnol group