Stephen M. King

Stephen M. King is Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology at the University of Connecticut Health Center, and also directs the Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Graduate Program and the Central Electron Microscopy Facility. He was awarded a B.Sc. (Hons) from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK in 1979 and received his Ph.D. from University College London in 1983. He began studying dynein molecular motors during his postdoctoral work at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury Massachusetts in the laboratory of Dr George B. Witman. He moved to Connecticut in 1993 following several months at Palmer Station Antarctica studying cold adaption of dyneins. Dr King received the 2000 Donaghue Investigator Award. His current research employs a broad array of structural, biochemical, genetic and cell biological approaches to address fundamental questions about dynein assembly, function and regulation.