Dana King

Bioinformatics- Computational Biologist Senior

damki@med.umich.edu

Dana King is a bioinformatics-computational biologist with a passion for bridging wet and dry-bench approaches and enabling researchers to utilize powerful, high-throughput techniques with rigor and reproducibility. She received her Ph.D. in Genetics and Genomics from Washington University in St. Louis, where she focused on understanding TFBS regulatory logic using MPRAs in mouse embryonic stem cells. She then joined the University of Michigan as a bioinformatics analyst in the BCRF Bioinformatics Core, specializing in single-cell, single-nuceli, and spatial data analysis as well as leading Bioinformatics training outreach and workshop development. In 2026 she joined the Kaczorowski Lab, supporting work with genetically diverse Alzheimer's disease models to discover markers of cognitive resilience.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her partner and their dog, building her rock climbing skills (mostly indoors), and taking walks or hikes in her local green spaces and forests.