- Involved in outreach events to schools and the public including the Wellcome-funded "I'm a Scientist" and L'Oreal / ZSL "Soap Box Science"
- Contributor to "The Open Laboratory" popular science anthology
Louise Johnson
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+44 (0) 118 378 4432
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Associate Professor
Lecturer
Areas of interest
- Evolution
- Genetics
- Intragenomic conflict
- Genomics
- Levels of selection
- Genetic systems
- Cancer evolution
Teaching
- Part 1: Pathology: Introduction to Human Disease, Exploiters and Exploited
- Part 2: Evolutionary Biology, Animal, Plant and Microbial Development
- Part 3: Evolutionary Genetics and Phylogeny, Seminars in Biology , Mechanisms for Microbial Function, Research Project Supervision
Research centres and groups
International Collaborators
- Prof. Paul Rainey FRSNZ, New Zealand Institute of Advanced Study and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, New Zealand
- Prof. James Cook, University of Western Sydney, Australia
- Dr Tek Tay, CSIRO, Australia
National Collaborators
- Prof. Michael Brockhurst, University of York
- Prof. Richard Nichols, Queen Mary University, London
- Dr. James Cotton, Sanger Centre, Cambridge
- Dr. Steve Le Comber, Queen Mary University, London
Research projects
- Experimental evolution of the genetic code
- Multilevel selection in cancer and intragenomic conflicts
- Evolution of genetic systems, particularly breeding systems
- Funding from NERC and the Leverhulme Trust
Background
Member of:
- School Athena SWAN Committee
- University-wide committee to promote undergraduate research
Esteem Factors
- Member of Steering Committee of NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility
- Editorial Board, Journal of Evolutionary Biology and Mobile Genetic Elements
- Plenary Speaker, "Genomic Consequences of Unconventional Sex", University of Cape Town
Selected publications
Pre 2006
L.J. Johnson, J. Antonovics and M. E. Hood. The evolution of intratetrad mating rates. 59: 2525-2532 (2005).
L. J. Johnson, V. Koufopanou, M. R. Goddard, R. Hetherington, S Schaeffer and A. Burt. Population genetics of the wild yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus. 166: 43-52 (2004).
L. J. Johnson and J. F. Y. Brookfield. Evolution of spatial expression pattern. Evolution and Development 5: 593-599 (2003).
L. J. Johnson and J. F. Y. Brookfield. Evolutionary dynamics of a selfishly spreading gene that stimulates sexual reproduction in a partially sexual population. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15: 42-48 (2002).
Impact, Enterprise and Outreach