June 2005

David D. King, Ph.D., joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Carbondale in 1978 as an assistant professor in anatomy. He is cross-appointed in the department of zoology, college of science. He became an associate professor in 1984.

He completed a two-year National Institutes for Health postdoctoral fellowship in neurogenetics at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. (1977).

King earned his doctoral degree in neuroscience at the University of California in San Diego, Calif., and his bachelor's in biological science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. (1975, 1970).

His research interests include genetic and evolutionary function of tandem repetitive DNA, evolution of evolvability by indirect selection, phylogenetic analysis of evolutionary innovation, invertebrate neurobiology and biological correlates of mental illness. His teaching specialty is histology. King has published more than 20 journal articles.

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