Dr. Kim Hoang
E-mail: kim.hoang@zoo.ox.ac.uk
I am broadly interested in the evolution of beneficial host-microbe interactions. The goal of my postdoctoral research is to examine the influence of microbe-mediated protective immunity on pathogen evolution (genomic and transcriptomic changes) and the consequences for host health.
Publications
Gerardo, N.M., Hoang, K.L., Stoy, K.S. 2020. Evolution of animal immunity in the light of beneficial symbioses. Philosophical Transactions B 375, 1-13.
Hoang, K.L., Morran, L.T., Gerardo, N.M. 2019. Can a symbiont (also) be food? 2019. Frontiers in Microbiology 10, 1–5.
Hoang, K.L., Gerardo, N.M., Morran, L.T. 2019. The effects of Bacillus subtilis on Caenorhabditis elegans fitness after heat stress. Ecology and Evolution 9, 3491–3499.
Tan, W-H, Reyes, M.L., Hoang, K.L., Acevedo, T., Leon, F., Barbosa, J.D., Gerardo, N.M. 2018. How symbiosis and ecological context influence the variable expression of transgenerational wing induction upon fungal infection of aphids. PLoS One, 1–15.
Hoang, K.L., Morran, L.T., Gerardo, N.M. 2016. Experimental evolution as an underutilized tool for studying beneficial host-microbe interactions. Frontiers in Microbiology 7, 1–14.
Hoang, K., Matzkin, L.M., Bono, J.M. 2015. Transcriptional variation associated with cactus host plant adaptation in Drosophila mettleri populations. Molecular Ecology 24, 5186–5199.
Bono, J.M.*, Matzkin, L.M.*, Hoang, K., Brandsmeier, L. 2015. Molecular evolution of candidate genes involved in post-mating-prezygotic reproductive isolation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28, 403–414. *Co-authors
Education
2019 PhD, Emory University
2014 BSc, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Awards
2020 Non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship, Kellogg College University of Oxford
2020 Graduate Program in Biology Academic and Professional Achievement Award, Emory University
2020 NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology
2020 Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution Program Scholar of the Year, Emory University
2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship