Kayla King

Professor

mail kayla.king@ubc.ca

call 604-822-0217

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Research Focus Teams

Climate Change

Research Interests

Host-pathogen interactions, Evolution, Ecology, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Genomics

Departments

Zoology, Microbiology & Immunology

Bio

Kayla King is a Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair in the Departments of Zoology and Microbiology & Immunology at the University of British Columbia, as well as Professorial Fellow of Evolutionary Ecology in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the evolution, ecology, and genomics of host-parasite interactions using a combination of experimental evolution, computational approaches, and collections from the wild. Dr. King received a BSc (2004) from UBC, followed by a MSc (2006) at Concordia University in Montreal, a PhD (2011) at Indiana University, followed by a prestigious Royal Society Newton Post-doctoral Fellowship at the University of Liverpool. She started as an Associate Professor (2013) before being promoted to Full Professor (2019) at Oxford. Dr. King was hired at UBC in 2023. Her honours include the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Mid-Career Excellence Award (2023), Canadian Society of Zoologists R.A. Wardle Medal (2023), the Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal (2022), the Linnean Society Bicentenary Medal (2020), the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Biology (2018), a European Research Council Starting Grant (2018), and the American Society of Naturalists Early Career Investigator Prize (2013). She is also an elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (2023) and Zoological Society of London (2022).

Recent Publications

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Using the microbiota to study connectivity at human-animal interfaces

MHC Diversity Across Time and Space

Within-host competition causes pathogen molecular evolution and perpetual microbiota dysbiosis

Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution

Order among chaos: High throughput MYCroplanters can distinguish interacting drivers of host infection in a highly stochastic system

Microbial Primer: Microbiome and thermal tolerance - a new frontier in climate resilience?

Insecticide susceptibility in a planthopper pest increases following inoculation with cultured Arsenophonus.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health-care use among patients with cancer in England, UK: a comprehensive phase-by-phase time-series analysis across attendance types for 38 cancers.

Warming alters life-history traits and competition in a phage community

The impacts of host association and perturbation on symbiont fitness

Incomplete immunity in a natural animal-microbiota interaction selects for higher pathogen virulence

Within- and between-host dynamics of producer and non-producer pathogens