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Nicole King

Nicole King

UC Berkeley & Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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While fossils sparked Nicole King’s childhood interest in evolution, she realized that the fossil record doesn’t explain fully how animals first evolved from their single celled ancestors. To answer this question, King decided to study modern day choanoflagellates. Choanoflagellates are single celled organisms that can also develop into multicellular assemblages.

King first learned about choanoflagellates while she was a graduate student with Richard Losick at Harvard University. She moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to do a post-doctoral fellowship focusing on choanoflagellates. In 2003, King joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, she is a Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at Berkeley and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

King’s innovative studies have been recognized with a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a Pew Scholarship. King is also a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

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Choanoflagellates and the Origin of Animal Multicellularity

Using a group of fascinating organisms called choanoflagellates, Nicole King explains how multicellular animals evolved from their single-celled ancestors. (Talk recorded in September 2014)

  • Part 1: The origin of animal multicellularity
    Part 1: The origin of animal multicellularity
    Audience:
    • Student
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 26:53
  • Part 2: Choanoflagellate colonies, bacterial signals and animal origins
    Part 2: Choanoflagellate colonies, bacterial signals and animal origins
    Audience:
    • Student
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 36:12

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences under Grant No. 2122350 and 1 R25 GM139147. Any opinion, finding, conclusion, or recommendation expressed in these videos are solely those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of the Science Communication Lab/iBiology, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, or other Science Communication Lab funders.

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