Karen Cone

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.