Postdoctoral Scholar, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine

Education

2004 – 2010


2000 – 2003


Professional Experience

2010 – present

    Postdoctoral Scholar
    Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine
    Advisor: Dr. Anthony Long

Research Interests

    Genomics, Quantitative Genetics, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Modeling,
    Resource Allocation, Phenotypic Plasticity, Life History Evolution, Trade-offs

Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications


  1. King, E.G., Eckhart, V.M., and Mohl, E.C. 2007. Magnitudes and mechanisms of shoot-damage compensation in annual species of Linum (Linacaea) in Iowa. The American Midland Naturalist 159: 200-213. Link to article
  2. Fairbairn, D.J. and King, E.G. 2009. Why do Californian striders fly? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 36-49. Link to article.
  3. King, E. G. and Roff, D. A. 2010. Modeling the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in resource allocation in wing dimorphic insects. The American Naturalist 175(6): 702-716. Link to article. (Faculty of 1000 Selection)
  4. King, E.G., Roff, D.A., and Fairbairn, D.J. 2011. Trade-off acquisition and allocation in Gryllus firmus: a test of the Y model. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 24: 256-264. Link to article. (Faculty of 1000 Selection)
  5. King, E.G., Roff, D.A., and Fairbairn, D.J. 2011. The evolutionary genetics of acquisition and allocation in the wing dimorphic cricket, Gryllus firmus. Evolution 65(8): 2273-2285. Link to article.
  6. King, E.G. Macdonald, S.J., and Long, A.D. 2012. Properties and power of the Drosophila Synthetic Population Resource for the routine dissection of complex traits. Genetics 191(3):935-949. Link to article. (Cover Article)
  7. King, E.G., Merkes, C.M., McNeil, C.L., Hoofer, S.R., Sen, S., Broman, K.W., Long, A.D., and Macdonald, S.J. 2012. Genetic dissection of a model complex trait using the Drosophila Synthetic Population Resource. Genome Research 22:1558-1566. Link to article.
  8. King, E.G., Roff, D.A., and Fairbairn, D.J. 2012. Extracting the underlying physiological determinants of resource based trade-offs: A principal components approach. The American Naturalist. 180(3):394-402. Link to article.

Software

    DSPRqtl
      The DSPRqtl package and accompanying data packages: DSPRqtlA and DSPRqtlB, are R packages containing the genotype data for the Drosophila Synthetic Population Resource and analytical tools for users of this community resource.


Honors, grants, and fellowships

2012-2014

    NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Award
      ”The genetics of the Drosophila IIS pathway response to changing nutrition”

2012

    Dean’s Award for Postdoctoral Research Excellence

2009

    Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Biology, University of California, Riverside

2008

    National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant
      "DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Genetic and phenotypic variation in resource acquisition and allocation: testing the fundamental model for life-history evolution”

    Newell Award, University of California, Riverside

2007

    Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Research Grant, University of California, Riverside
    SICB Grant-in-Aid-of-Research

2005

    GAANN Fellowship, University of California, Riverside
    Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2004

    Dean’s Fellowship, University of California, Riverside

Teaching experience

2012

    Guest Lecturer, Biostatistics (California State University, San Bernardino)

2010

    Teaching assistant, Evolution (University of California, Riverside)

2009

    Teaching assistant, Organisms in their Environment (University of California, Riverside)
    Teaching assistant, Introductory Evolution and Ecology (University of California, Riverside)

2008

    Teaching assistant, Introductory Evolution and Ecology (University of California, Riverside)
    Teaching assistant, Human Reproduction and Sexual Behavior (University of California, Riverside)
    Teaching assistant, Introductory Organismal Biology (University of California, Riverside)
    Teaching assistant, Organisms in their Environment (University of California, Riverside)

2007

    Teaching assistant, Introductory Evolution and Ecology (University of California, Riverside)

2003

    Teaching assistant, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology (Grinnell College)
    Teaching assistant, Organic Chemistry I (Grinnell College)

Invited Presentations

    University of California, Irvine (March 2010)
    Systems Genetics Resources Workshop (May 2011)
    California State University, San Bernardino (November 2011)

Workshops

    Summer Institute for Statistical Genetics
    Modules:
      Gene Expression Profiling
      MCMC for Genetics

Presentations

  1. King, E.G. and McGranahan, D.A. 2004. The extraordinary botanical diversity of Yucateca Maya home gardens in Belize. AAAS Annual Meeting.
  2. King, E.G. 2004. The compensatory responses of Linum sulcatum and Linum rigidum. Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference.
  3. King, E.G. 2006. The evolutionary genetics of wing dimorphism in a water strider. UCR Department of Biology Gradfest.
  4. King, E.G. , Fairbairn, D.J., and Roff, D.A. 2006. The evolutionary genetics of wing dimorphism in a water strider. Society for the Study of Evolution.
  5. King, E.G. and Roff, D.A. 2008. Modeling the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in resource allocation. Society for the Study of Evolution.
  6. King, E.G., Roff, D.A., and Fairbairn, D.J. 2009. Modeling the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in resource allocation in wing polymorphic insects. European Society for Evolutionary Biology.
  7. King, E.G., Roff, D.A., and Fairbairn, D.J. 2010. The genetics of phenotypic plasticity in resource acquisition and allocation in the wing dimorphic cricket, Gryllus firmus. Society for the Study of Evolution.
  8. King, E.G., Macdonald, S.J., and Long, T.D. 2011. Estimating complete genotype data from a collection of dense semi-codominant SNP markers in the Drosophila Synthetic Population Resource (DSPR). Genetics Society of America.
  9. King, E.G., Macdonald, S.J., and Long, A.D. 2012. Properties and Power of the Drosophila Synthetic Population Resource. Fourth International Conference of Quantitative Genetics.
  10. King, E.G., Macdonald, S.J., and Long, A.D. 2012. Properties and Power of the Drosophila Synthetic Population Resource. Society for the Study of Evolution.

Memberships

    The Genetics Society of America
    The American Society of Naturalists
    Society for the Study of Evolution

Reviewer

    American Naturalist
    Evolution
    Evolutionary Ecology