2023
July 2023: Kayla received the Mid-Career Excellence Award from the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.
June 2023: Manisha Dosanjh joins the King Lab as our UBC Lab Manager. Welcome!
June 2023: Leah Fulton, Melissa Chen, and Sarzana Hossain have joined our lab in conjunction with Prof. Cara Haney’s lab at UBC. Welcome!
May 2023: The first of the new recruits to the UBC-based lab. James Forward joins as a Directed Studies undergraduate. Welcome!
May 2023: Judy joins us at UBC from Oxford in the final months of her DPhil.
March 2023: Kayla has moved to the University of British Columbia! The King Lab group will be split between UBC Vancouver and Oxford until 2026.
Feb 2023: Kayla, Justyna Wolinska (FU Berlin), and Matt Hall (Monash) organised a special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society on ‘Infectious disease ecology and evolution in a changing world‘
Feb 2023: Georgia and Iela (summer undergraduate student) had a paper accepted in Biology Letters. Congratulations!
Jan 2023: Very exciting! Kayla was elected as a Fellow in the Linnean Society of London. https://www.linnean.org/The-Socie
2022
Nov 2022: Kayla was awarded the Zoological Society of London’s prestigious Scientific Medal
Oct 2022: Georgia (and former student, Suzie Ford) had a paper accepted in Heredity.
Oct 2022: Kim published a dispatch in Current Biology and was interviewed by The Scientist
Sept 2022: Judy’s first PhD paper was accepted in Global Change Biology. Extreme cooling and heating in experiments can reduce host microbiota diversity!
Sept 2022: Emma joins us from the University of Amsterdam on a MSc internship. Welcome!
July 2022: Sam officially joins the King Lab and will be co-advised by Prof. Craig Maclean. Very exciting! Sam will be exploring the impacts of fever-like temperatures on bacteria-phage coevolution.
July 2022: Kim, Toby, and Judy have published a collaborative effort on symbiosis and heating in TREE.
June 2022: Yunyun joins us on a CSC visiting student internship from China. Welcome!
May 2022: Kayla was interviewed by Current Biology on her career.
April 2022: Former labbies – Charlotte, Alice, and Jordan – as well as collaborators have published a long-standing project on host-parasite coevolution in Current Biology.
April 2022: Kim published her first paper with the King Lab. An extensive review on immune priming by symbionts in Microbiology.
Feb 2022: Kim was awarded an American Naturalist Young Investigator Prize. Amazing, Kim!