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Louise Johnson

Portrait of Louise Johnson

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