kingkc@indiana.edu
Indiana University,
1001 East Third Street,
Bloomington, IN 47405-3700, USA
Tel: 1-812-855-3282
Fax: 1-812-855-6082
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Biology, kingkc@indiana.edu Indiana University, 1001 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-3700, USA |
E-mail:
kingkc@indiana.edu Tel: 1-812-855-3282 Fax: 1-812-855-6082 |
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Education |
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| 2006-present | PhD in Ecology,
Evolution, and Behaviour, Indiana University. Advisor: Curtis M. Lively |
| 2004-2006 | MSc in Biology,
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Advisor: David J. Marcogliese (Environment Canada) Co-advisor: J. Daniel McLaughlin |
| 2000-2004 | BSc in Ecology
and Environmental Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada. Labs of Dolph Schluter (Centre for Biodiversity Research) and Martin L. Adamson |
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Research Experience |
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| 2006-present | Indiana University. PhD project. |
| 2010 |
University of Edinburgh. Visiting researcher, Little lab. Project: Selection on bacterial parasites by Daphnia hosts |
| 2009 | Eawag/ETH-Zurich. Visiting researcher, Jokela lab. Project: Parasite-mediated selection on host life-history traits. |
| 2004-2006 | Concordia University. MSc project: Parasite communities of leopard frogs (Rana pipiens) from wetland habitats impacted by agriculture. |
| 2004 | St. Lawrence Centre, Environment Canada. Research Assistant, Marcogliese lab: Agriculture and amphibian disease project. |
| 2003-2004 | University of British Columbia. BSc Independent research project, Adamson lab: Two new species of Gyrodactylus infecting Bay Pipefish (Sygnathus fuscus), from Burrard Inlet, BC, Canada. |
| 2003 | University of British Columbia. Undergraduate Research Assistant, Schluter lab: DNA/phylogenetics of neotropical songbirds project, stickleback adaptive radiation project. |
| 2003 | Malaspina University-College. Tropical Biology Field School, Research project: Larval parasite biodiversity in marine and freshwater snails from Belize, Central America. |
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Competitive Grants and Scholarships (2003-present) |
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| 2010 |
Indiana University Fellowship |
| 2009 | Society for the
Study of Evolution International Travel Grant ThinkSwiss Scholarship Indiana University College of Arts & Science Award |
| 2007 | Natural Science
and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) International Doctoral Scholarship |
| 2006 | Indiana
University Fellowship METACyt Molecular Evolution Award Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) PGS Doctoral Scholarship (declined) UK Overseas Research Student Award (declined) Canadian Society of Zoology, Parasitology Section, Murray Fallis Award |
| 2005 | NSERC Canadian Graduate Scholarship |
| 2004 | Concordia
University Graduate Fellowship Concordia University Entrance Scholarship |
| 2003 | NSERC
Undergraduate Research Student Award University of British Columbia ScholarProgram Queen’s Golden Jubilee Award Canadian Millennium Provincial Scholarship |
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Publications |
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| King, K.C., Jokela, J., and Lively, C.M. Parasites, sex, and clonal diversity in natural snail populations. Evolution. In press. | |
| King, K.C., Jokela, J., and Lively, C.M. Trematode parasites infect or die in snail hosts. Biology Letters. In press. | |
| King, K.C and Hurst, G.D.D. (2010). Losing the desire: selection can promote obligate asexuality. BMC Biology 8: 101 | |
| King, K.C., McLaughlin, J.D., Boily, M., and Marcogliese, D.J. (2010). Effects of agricultural landscape and pesticides on parasitism in native bullfrogs. Biological Conservation143, 302-310 | |
| King,
K.C., Delph, L.F., Jokela, J., and Lively, C.M. (2009).
The geographic mosaic of sex and the Red Queen. Current Biology 19:
1438-1441. *see related dispatch by Thompson, J.N. (2009). Coevolutionary biology: sex and the geographic mosaic of coevolution. Current Biology 19: R735-R736. |
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| King, K.C. and Lively, C.M. (2009). Geographic variation in sterilizing parasite species and the Red Queen. Oikos 118: 1416-1420 | |
| Wolinska, J. and King, K.C. (2009). Environment can alter selection in host-parasite interactions. Trends in Parasitology 25: 236-244. | |
| Marcogliese, D.J., King, K.C., Salo, H., Fournier, M., Brousseau, P., Spear, P., Champoux, L., McLaughlin, J.D., and Boily, M. (2009) Interactions between agriculture and parasitism: effects on biomarkers in the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana. Aquatic Toxicology: 91, 126-134. | |
| Wolinska, J., King, K.C., Vigneux, F., and Lively, C.M. (2008) Virulence, cultivating conditions, and phylogenetic analyses of oomycete parasites in Daphnia. Parasitology: 135, 1667-1678. | |
| King, K.C., Gendron, A.D., McLaughlin, J.D., Giroux, I., Brousseau, P., Cyr, D., Ruby, S.M., Fournier, M., and Marcogliese, D.J. (2008) Short-term seasonal changes in parasite community structure in northern leopard froglets (Rana pipiens) inhabiting agricultural wetlands. Journal of Parasitology: 94, 13-22. | |
| King, K. C., McLaughlin, J. D., Gendron, A. D., Pauli, B. D., Giroux, I., Rondeau, B., Boily, M., Juneau, P., and Marcogliese, D. J. (2007) Impacts of agriculture on the parasite communities of northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens) in southern Quebec, Canada. Parasitology: 134, 2063-2080. | |
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Press |
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| NSF LiveScience: Why have sex? To fend off
parasites (October 2009) Link Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Sex defends against parasites (July 2009) Link Eurekalert: Parasites keep things sexy in "hotspots" (July 2009) Link IU News Room: Parasitic worms make sex worthwhile (July 2009) Link |
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Conferences |
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| 2010 |
Presenter: British Society of Parasitology, Cardiff, UK |
| 2009 | Presenter:
European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Torino, Italy Presenter: Evolution of Sex and Recombination, Iowa City, Iowa, USA Presenter: Canadian Society of Zoology, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada |
| 2008 | Presenter:
Canadian
Society of Ecology and Evolution, Vancouver, BC, Canada Presenter: Society for the Study of Evolution, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| 2007 | Presenter:
Canadian Society of Zoology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, Ithaca, New York, USA International Evolutionary Biology Workshop, Guarda, Switzerland |
| 2006 | Presenter:
International Congress of Parasitology XI, Glasgow, Scotland Presenter: Canadian Society of Zoology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| 2005 | Presenter:
Canadian Society of Zoology, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Université du Québec á Montréal TOXEN, Montreal, Canada |
| 2004 | Université du Québec á Montréal TOXEN, Montreal, Canada |
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Invited Presentations |
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| 2010 |
University of
Liverpool, Liverpool, England University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK |
| 2009 |
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf, Switzerland |
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Society Memberships |
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| American Society of Parasitology Association for Women in Science Canadian Society of Zoology Sigma Xi Research Society Society for the Study of Evolution Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution |
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