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Oliver D. King PhD

TitleAssistant Professor
InstitutionUMass Chan Medical School
DepartmentNeurology
AddressWellstone Program
55 Lake Avenue North, S5-141
Worcester MA 01655
Phone774-455-1572
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    InstitutionT.H. Chan School of Medicine
    DepartmentNeurology
    DivisionWellstone Program

    InstitutionMorningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
    DepartmentNeuroscience


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    University of Hawaii at Manoa, Manoa, HI, United StatesBAMathematics
    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United StatesMSComputer Sciences
    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United StatesPHDMathematics

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    Dr. King is a computational biologist, with research interests in algorithm development and the analysis of high-throughput datasets. As part of a Wellstone Center focusing on facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) he studies transcriptional and epigenetic changes associated with disease, and genetic modifiers of disease severity.
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    Wellstone Program / Neurology

    Academic Background

    • 2016-present: Assistant Professor, Neurology, UMMS / UMass Chan
    • 2013-2016: Assistant Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, UMMS
    • 2007-2013: Scientist, Boston Biomedical Research Institute
    • 2004-2007: Postdoctoral Associate, Whitehead Institute
    • 2001-2004: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School
    • 2001: PhD in Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
    • 1999: MS in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
    • 1992: BA in Mathematics, University of Hawaii, Manoa

     


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    1. Guo L, Kim HJ, Wang H, Monaghan J, Freyermuth F, Sung JC, O'Donovan K, Fare CM, Diaz Z, Singh N, Zhang ZC, Coughlin M, Sweeny EA, DeSantis ME, Jackrel ME, Rodell CB, Burdick JA, King OD, Gitler AD, Lagier-Tourenne C, Pandey UB, Chook YM, Taylor JP, Shorter J. Nuclear-Import Receptors Reverse Aberrant Phase Transitions of RNA-Binding Proteins with Prion-like Domains. Cell. 2018 04 19; 173(3):677-692.e20. PMID: 29677512.
      Citations: 220     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    2. King OD, Poor C, Shurman J, Yuen DS. Using Katsurada's determination of the Eisenstein series to compute Siegel eigenforms. Mathematics of Computation. 2018; 87:879-892. View Publication.
    3. Lancaster AK, Nutter-Upham A, Lindquist S, King OD. PLAAC: a web and command-line application to identify proteins with prion-like amino acid composition. Bioinformatics. 2014 Sep 01; 30(17):2501-2. PMID: 24825614.
      Citations: 230     Fields:    
    4. Zhang Y, King OD, Rahimov F, Jones TI, Ward CW, Kerr JP, Liu N, Emerson CP, Kunkel LM, Partridge TA, Wagner KR. Human skeletal muscle xenograft as a new preclinical model for muscle disorders. Hum Mol Genet. 2014 Jun 15; 23(12):3180-8. PMID: 24452336.
      Citations: 37     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    5. Stadler G, Rahimov F, King OD, Chen JC, Robin JD, Wagner KR, Shay JW, Emerson CP, Wright WE. Telomere position effect regulates DUX4 in human facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2013 Jun; 20(6):671-8. PMID: 23644600.
      Citations: 56     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    6. Kim HJ, Kim NC, Wang YD, Scarborough EA, Moore J, Diaz Z, MacLea KS, Freibaum B, Li S, Molliex A, Kanagaraj AP, Carter R, Boylan KB, Wojtas AM, Rademakers R, Pinkus JL, Greenberg SA, Trojanowski JQ, Traynor BJ, Smith BN, Topp S, Gkazi AS, Miller J, Shaw CE, Kottlors M, Kirschner J, Pestronk A, Li YR, Ford AF, Gitler AD, Benatar M, King OD, Kimonis VE, Ross ED, Weihl CC, Shorter J, Taylor JP. Mutations in prion-like domains in hnRNPA2B1 and hnRNPA1 cause multisystem proteinopathy and ALS. Nature. 2013 Mar 28; 495(7442):467-73. PMID: 23455423.
      Citations: 750     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    7. Gallardo CM, Gunapala KM, King OD, Steele AD. Daily scheduled high fat meals moderately entrain behavioral anticipatory activity, body temperature, and hypothalamic c-Fos activation. PLoS One. 2012; 7(7):e41161. PMID: 22815954.
      Citations: 12     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    8. Luby MD, Hsu CT, Shuster SA, Gallardo CM, Mistlberger RE, King OD, Steele AD. Food anticipatory activity behavior of mice across a wide range of circadian and non-circadian intervals. PLoS One. 2012; 7(5):e37992. PMID: 22662260.
      Citations: 25     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    9. Sotocinal SG, Sorge RE, Zaloum A, Tuttle AH, Martin LJ, Wieskopf JS, Mapplebeck JC, Wei P, Zhan S, Zhang S, McDougall JJ, King OD, Mogil JS. The Rat Grimace Scale: a partially automated method for quantifying pain in the laboratory rat via facial expressions. Mol Pain. 2011 Jul 29; 7:55. PMID: 21801409.
      Citations: 275     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    10. Halfmann R, Alberti S, Krishnan R, Lyle N, O'Donnell CW, King OD, Berger B, Pappu RV, Lindquist S. Opposing effects of glutamine and asparagine govern prion formation by intrinsically disordered proteins. Mol Cell. 2011 Jul 08; 43(1):72-84. PMID: 21726811.
      Citations: 103     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    11. Cushman M, Johnson BS, King OD, Gitler AD, Shorter J. Prion-like disorders: blurring the divide between transmissibility and infectivity. J Cell Sci. 2010 Apr 15; 123(Pt 8):1191-201. PMID: 20356930.
      Citations: 167     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    12. Tian W, Zhang LV, Tasan M, Gibbons FD, King OD, Park J, Wunderlich Z, Cherry JM, Roth FP. Combining guilt-by-association and guilt-by-profiling to predict Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene function. Genome Biol. 2008; 9 Suppl 1:S7. PMID: 18613951.
      Citations: 44     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    13. King OD, Masel J. The evolution of bet-hedging adaptations to rare scenarios. Theor Popul Biol. 2007 Dec; 72(4):560-75. PMID: 17915273.
      Citations: 60     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    14. Steele AD, Jackson WS, King OD, Lindquist S. The power of automated high-resolution behavior analysis revealed by its application to mouse models of Huntington's and prion diseases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Feb 06; 104(6):1983-8. PMID: 17261803.
      Citations: 101     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    15. King OD, Gaborit P. Binary templates for comma-free DNA codes. Discrete Appl Math (Computational Molecular Biology Series, Issue V). 2007; 155(6-7):831-839. View Publication.
    16. Gaborit P, King OD. Linear constructions for DNA codes. Theor Comput Sci. 2005; 334:99-113. View Publication.
    17. King OD. Comment on "Subgraphs in random networks". Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2004 Nov; 70(5 Pt 2):058101; author reply 058102. PMID: 15600808.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    
    18. Zhang LV, Wong SL, King OD, Roth FP. Predicting co-complexed protein pairs using genomic and proteomic data integration. BMC Bioinformatics. 2004 Apr 16; 5:38. PMID: 15090078.
      Citations: 54     Fields:    
    19. Berriz GF, King OD, Bryant B, Sander C, Roth FP. Characterizing gene sets with FuncAssociate. Bioinformatics. 2003 Dec 12; 19(18):2502-4. PMID: 14668247.
      Citations: 205     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    20. King OD, Foulger RE, Dwight SS, White JV, Roth FP. Predicting gene function from patterns of annotation. Genome Res. 2003 May; 13(5):896-904. PMID: 12695322.
      Citations: 47     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    21. King OD. A mass formula for unimodular lattices with no roots. Math Comput. 2003; 72(242):839-863. View Publication.
    22. King OD, Lee JC, Dudley AM, Janse DM, Church GM, Roth FP. Predicting phenotype from patterns of annotation. Bioinformatics. 2003; 19 Suppl 1:i183-9. PMID: 12855456.
      Citations: 16     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    23. King OD. Bounds for DNA codes with constant GC-content. Electron J Comb. 2003; 10(1):#33. View Publication.
    24. He X, King O, Ma WY, Li M, Zhang HJ. Learning a semantic space from user's relevance feedback for image retrieval. IEEE Trans Circ Syst Vid. 2003; 13:39-48 . View Publication.
    25. Kobayashi, M, Dupret G, King O, Samukawa H. Estimation of singular values of very large matrices using random sampling. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 2001; 42(10-11):1331-1352. View Publication.
    26. King OD. The mass of extremal doubly-even self-dual codes of length 40. IEEE Trans Inform Theory. 2001; 47(6):2558-2560. View Publication.
    27. King O and Forsyth DA. How does CONDENSATION behave with a finite number of samples?. 6th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2000). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1842. 2000; 695-709. View Publication.
    28. Altunbasak Y, Patti AJ, King OD. On global parametric motion estimation with lens distortion correction. Proc IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). 1999; 3:686-690. View Publication.
    29. Kobayashi M, Dupret G, King O, Samukawa H, Takeda K. Multi-perspective retrieval, ranking and visualization of Web data. Proceedings of International Symposium on Digital Libraries. 1999; 159-162. View Publication.
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