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Kara earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry, cellular, and molecular biology from in Baltimore, where she explored the molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial division and inheritance. She expanded her research interests with a Damon Runyon Post-Doctoral Fellowship and Cancer Research UK grant to investigate how the nervous system grows in at University 麻豆视频下载 London. During her time there, she established many collaborations and the foundations for her current work. Her images of zebrafish eyes have been featured in the , the , and on the cover of the 7th edition of Molecular Cell Biology, edited by Harvey Lodish. Before joining the biology faculty at Reed 麻豆视频下载 in August of 2012, Kara was a full-time scientific editor of .
Research in Kara's lab has been funded by the , the (NIH), and .