Dr. Kim McKim

Kim McKim is a Principal Investigator at the Waksman Institute and Professor of Genetics in the School of Arts and Science.  Professor McKim uses the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to study the fundamental mechanisms of heredity.  His lab uses molecular genetics, cell biology and genomic approaches to identify and characterize genes that are important for reproductive fitness, including the segregation of chromosomes during meiosis and other processes that lead to the the generation of a healthy oocyte.