Kayla King
Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, UBC
Dr. King (she/her) is a Professor in the Departments of Zoology and Microbiology & Immunology at the University of British Columbia, and she is also a Professorial Fellow at Oxford University. Her group investigates the contemporary evolution and ecology of host-pathogen interactions using experiments of animal-pathogen systems in the lab, comparative analyses across species, and hypothesis-driven pathogen surveillance in wild terrestrial and aquatic animals. She is interested in the effects of a warming climate and biodiversity loss on wildlife health during infection. Her research also explores the microbiome dynamics underlying animal health across environments.
She is a founding Director of the UBC PrePARE (Prepare for Pandemics through Advanced Research in Evolution) research cluster whose mission is to leverage our understanding of infectious disease evolution in host species to reduce the burden of infection amidst global change.
