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Kim Cooper

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Kim Cooper is a Professor at the University of California San Diego, Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology. She teaches BILD3: Organismal Evolution and Ecology and co-teaches an upper level undergraduate course on Stem Cells and Regeneration.

From 2006-2013, she was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Cliff Tabin in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Her interest in limb development and the diversity of form in animals drew her to the Tabin lab.

In 2005, she received her Ph.D. in the lab of Dr. Cecilia Moens at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as a student in the FHCRC/University of Washington Molecular and Cellular Biology Program. Her dissertation was on the genetics of hindbrain motor neuron specification and cellular behavior.

In 1999, she received her B.S. with Honors and Distinction from Cornell University where she majored in Biology with a concentration in Genetics and Development. She was an undergraduate researcher with Dr. Ross MacIntyre studying the genetic organization of the Drosophila dumpy gene.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

  • Member of Society for Developmental Biology
  • Member of Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology
  • Associate Editor Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B
  • Guest Editor for a Special Issue of Developmental Dynamics on Evolution of Morphology (scheduled for publication in 2015)

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Tata Chancellor's Endowed Chair 2021-2026
  • Pan American Society for Evo Devo Early Career Award 2019
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2019
  • Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering 2015-2019
  • Pew Biomedical Scholar Award 2015-2019
  • Searle Scholar Award 2015-2018
  • Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching 2010
  • Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NIH F32) 2006-2009
  • National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship 1999-2002

CONTACT

University of California, San Diego
Division of Biological Sciences
Natural Sciences Building, Room 6117
9500 Gilman Drive MC 0377
La Jolla, CA 92093-0377 
 
 

Ph: (858)534-1040

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