Kathleen Xie
KathleenT_Xie@dfci.harvard.edu 

EDUCATION
PhD in Biochemistry, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (Lab of Dr. David M. Kingsley)

SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

​AWARDS AND HONORS
William Guy Forbeck Scholar Award (2019)

Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship (2018)

Damon Runyon Fellowship (2018, declined)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship (2009)

Josephine de Karman Fellowship (2008)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
KT Xie, G Wang, AC Thompson, JI Wucherpfennig, TE Reimchen, ADC MacColl, D
Schluter, MA Bell, KM Vasquez, and DM Kingsley. DNA fragility in the parallel evolution of
pelvic reduction in stickleback fish. Science 363: 81-84 (2019).

TF Cooke, CR Fischer, P Wu, TX Jiang, KT Xie, J Kuo, E Doctorov, A Zehnder, C Khosla,
CM Chuong, and CD Bustamante. Genetic mapping and biochemical basis of yellow feather
pigmentation in budgerigars. Cell 171: 427-439 (2017).

IA Drinnenberg*, DE Weinberg*, KT Xie*, JP Mower, KH Wolfe, GR Fink, and DP Bartel.
RNAi in budding yeast. Science 326: 544-550 (2009)