Melvin King

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Erik S. Musiek, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Dartmouth College, 2016

Enrollment year: 2018

Research summary

Graduate publications
McKee CA, Polino AJ, King MW, Musiek ES. 2023 Circadian clock protein BMAL1 broadly influences autophagy and endolysosomal function in astrocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 120(20):e2220551120. PMCID:

Lananna BV, McKee CA, King MW, Del-Aguila JL, Dimitry JM, Farias FHG, Nadarajah CJ, Xiong DD, Guo C, Cammack AJ, Elias JA, Zhang J, Cruchaga C, Musiek ES. 2021 Chi3l1/YKL-40 is controlled by the astrocyte circadian clock and regulates neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis. Sci Transl Med, 12(574):eaax3519. PMCID: PMC7808313