Karen Cone

Personnel summary

Science Advisor

Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)

Contact information

  • Email kccone@nsf.gov
  • Direct (703) 292-4967
  • Fax (703) 292-9061
  • Room E 12461

Biography

Cone is currently the Acting Division Director of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB). She previously served as a program director in MCB and as a science advisor in the Office of the Assistant Director for Biological Sciences. Prior to joining NSF, Cone was a professor in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Her research expertise is in plant genetics and genomics, with emphasis on epigenetics and chromatin-mediated regulation of gene expression.

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