Dr. King earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Harvard University and studied animal origins as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has received a MacArthur “Genius” Award, was selected for the Pew Scholar’s Program in the Biomedical Sciences, appointed as a Scholar in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and received the George Bartholomew Award in Comparative Physiology from the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Her research has been covered in the scientific and popular press, including the New York Times, SCIENCE, and National Public Radio.