Dr. Megan King

Biography

Megan received a B.A. in Biochemistry from Brandeis University, working with Dr. Susan Lowey. She earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked with Dr. Mark Lemmon. Megan completed her postdoctoral training with Dr. Günter Blobel at Rockefeller University, where she discovered new mechanisms for targeting integral inner nuclear membrane proteins. In 2009, she founded her own research group, focusing on a broad array of biological functions related to the integrated nuclear envelope and its impacts on DNA repair and cellular mechanics. Megan was named a Searle Scholar in 2011 and is currently an Allen Distinguished Investigator, receiving the NIH New Innovator Award. Her major research focus is on the macromolecular complexes embedded in the nuclear envelope that physically couple the cytoskeleton to the nucleus (LINC complexes), and she seeks to define the fundamental mechanisms underpinning nuclear force response in contexts of direct force transduction affecting nuclear lamina and cell function.

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