Awards

MacArthur Fellow - 2005

About Nicole King

Nicole King received a B.S. (1992) from Indiana University, Bloomington, and an A.M. (1996) and a Ph.D. (1999) from Harvard University. King held a postdoctoral fellowship (2000-2003) at the University of Wisconsin. She is a biologist who is reconstructing a critical event in the evolution of life – the emergence of multicellular organisms that form the base of the animal (metazoan) kingdom.

King is a professor of genetics and development in the Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology and Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a faculty affiliate of the UC Berkeley Center for Integrative Genomics, and an Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at the UC, Berkeley, where she continues to study the origin and early evolution of animals.

King's research has appeared in such academic journals as Nature, Science, and Developmental Cell.