Karl Andrew Johnson |
Department of Biology kjohnson@haverford.edu
Haverford College
(T) 610-896-1306
370 Lancaster Ave.
(F)
610-896-4963
Haverford PA 19041
www.haverford.edu/biology/johnson
Professional
Experience
2007-present Professor, Department of Biology,
Haverford College
2009-2012 Chair, Department of Biology, Haverford College
2001-2004 Chair, Department of Biology, Haverford College
1999-2007 Associate
Professor, Department of Biology,
Haverford College
1993-1999 Assistant
Professor, Department of Biology,
Haverford College
1992 Visiting
Assistant Professor, Yale College
(Summer Programs)
1992 Visiting
Assistant Professor, Connecticut
College (Spring Semester)
1991 Lecturer
in Biology, Yale University (Fall
Semester)
Education
1989-1993 Postdoctoral
Fellow, Yale University
Advisor:
Joel Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
1989 Ph.D.
in Biology, Yale University
Advisor: Ian Sussex, Ph.D.
1987 M.Phil.
in Biology, Yale University
Advisor:
Mary Helen Goldsmith. Ph.D.
1983 B.A.
in Biology, Swarthmore College
Senior
Research Advisor: Mark Jacobs, Ph.D.
Grants
(1999-present)
2000-2005 National
Science Foundation RUI Research Grant
Phage-Based Components for Nanoscale Assembly
$180,000 (to K.A.J.)
2000-2005 National
Science Foundation MRI Instrumentation Grant
Acquisition of Molecular and Cellular Imaging Instrumentation
$996,294 (co-PI)
2000-2005 National
Science Foundation RUI Research Grant
Tubulin
Folding and Assembly in Chlamydomonas
$247,000 (MCB-9982733 to K.A.J.)
2000-2006 David
and Lucille Packard Foundation Grant
Protein-Based
Biomaterials for Nanotechnology
$966,020 (co-PI)
2000-2002 National
Science Foundation Instrumentation Grant
RUI:
Advanced Microscopy and Manipulation Cluster for Biological and Biophysical
Studies. $169,271 (DBI-0070361,
co-PI)
2000-2002 National
Science Foundation Instrumentation Grant
A Confocal Microscope for Research in the Biological
Sciences
$165,985 (DBI-0070046, co-PI)
1999-2000 Zimmer
Corporation Instrumentation Grant
Atomic
Force Microscopy $100,000 (co-PI)
1995-1999 National
Science Foundation RUI Research Grant
Characterization
of a Molecular Chaperone in the Eukaryotic Flagellum $240,000 (MCB-9506236 to
K.A.J.)
And participation in program
grants to Haverford College from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Merck
Foundation, the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, and the Beckman Foundation
Awards, Honors and Fellowships (1999-present)
2004-2005 Accrued
Sabbatical leave (half-time)
2001-2002 Teaching
with Technology Development Award, Haverford College
2000-2001 Post-Tenure
Leave (full time)
1999 Faculty
Innovation in Teaching Award, Haverford College
Courses Taught at Haverford (1999-present)
HBiol 123 Perspectives
in Biology: Scientific Literacy- a
class for nonscientists
HBiol 200 Cell
Structure and Function – a year
long, team-taught gateway to the major
HBiol 300 Laboratory
in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
– intensive co-taught junior laboratory
HBiol 302 Cell
Architecture - a junior-level cell
biology lecture course
HBiol 351 Molecular
Motors and Biological Nanomachines -
a literature-based senior seminar
HBiol 407 Senior
Research Tutorial – senior
research theses (required for the major)
HBiol 499 Senior
Departmental Studies – a senior
collective experience
Publications
from Haverford (* denotes undergraduate co-authors)
Kurtuldu H, Guasto JS, Johnson KA, Gollub JP. (2011) Enhancement of biomixing by swimming algal cells in two-dimensional films. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jun 28;108(26):10391-5. Epub 2011 Jun 9. PMID: 21659630
Guasto JS, Johnson KA, Gollub JP. (2010) Oscillatory flows induced by microorganisms swimming in two dimensions. Phys Rev Lett. 105(16):168102. PMID: 21231018
Kokona B, *Kim AM, *Roden RC, *Daniels JP, *Pepe-Mooney BJ, *Kovaric BC, de Paula JC, Johnson KA, Fairman R. (2009) Self Assembly of Coiled-Coil Peptide-Porphyrin Complexes. Biomacromolecules. 2009 Apr 17. PMID: 19374349
*Shapiro J, *Ingram J, Johnson KA (2005) Characterization of a molecular chaperone
present in the eukaryotic flagellum.
Eukaryot Cell. 4(9):1591-4.
PMID: 16151252
*Rigotti DJ, Kokona B, *Horne T, *Acton
EK, *Lederman CD, Johnson KA, Manning RS, Kane SA, Smith WF, Fairman R. (2005) Quantitative atomic force microscopy image analysis
of unusual filaments formed by the Acanthamoeba castellanii myosin II rod domain. Anal Biochem. 346(2):189-200.
PMID: 16213459
Fossella J, Samant SA, Silver LM, King SM, Vaughan KT,
Olds-Clarke P, Johnson KA, Mikami A,
Vallee RB, Pilder SH. (2000) An axonemal dynein at the Hybrid Sterility 6
locus: implications for t haplotype-specific male sterility and the evolution
of species barriers. Mamm Genome.
11(1):8-15. PMID: 10602986
Johnson KA.
(1998) The axonemal microtubules of the Chlamydomonas flagellum differ in tubulin isoform content. J Cell Sci. 1998 111( Pt 3):313-20. PMID: 9427680
*Bloch MA, Johnson KA. (1995) Identification of a molecular chaperone in the
eukaryotic flagellum and its localization to the site of microtubule assembly.
J Cell Sci. 108 ( Pt 11):3541-5. PMID: 8586665
Johnson, K.A. (1995) Keeping the beat: form meets
function in the Chlamydomonas
flagellum. BioEssays 17:847-854.
DOI: 10.1002/bies.950171006
Johnson KA.
(1995) Immunoelectron microscopy. Methods Cell Biol. 1995;47:153-62. PMID: 7476481
Bernstein M, Beech PL, Johnson KA, Kozminski KG and Rosenbaum JL. (1995) New motilities
and motors in the flagella of Chlamydomonas. In: 45th Colloquium Mosbach: The Cytoskeleton, ed.
by B. Jockusch, E. Mandelkow and K. Weber. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg,
Germany, pp. 11-21.
Johnson KA,
Haas MA, Rosenbaum JL. (1994) Localization of a kinesin-related protein to the
central pair apparatus of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii flagellum.
J Cell Sci. 107 ( Pt 6):1551-6. PMID: 7962197
Publications
prior to Haverford
Kozminski KG, Johnson KA, Forscher P, Rosenbaum JL. (1993) A motility in the
eukaryotic flagellum unrelated to flagellar beating. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
90(12):5519-23. PMID: 8516294
Johnson KA,
Rosenbaum JL. (1993) Flagellar regeneration in Chlamydomonas: a model system for studying organelle assembly. Trends Cell Biol. 3(5):156-61. PMID: 14731610
Johnson KA,
Rosenbaum JL. (1992) Polarity of flagellar assembly in Chlamydomonas. J Cell Biol. 119(6):1605-11. PMID: 1281816
Johnson KA,
Rosenbaum JL. (1992) Replication of basal bodies and centrioles. Curr Opin Cell
Biol. 4(1):80-5. Review. PMID: 1558756
Johnson KA,
Rosenbaum JL. (1991) Basal bodies and DNA. Trends Cell Biol. 1(6):145-9. PMID: 14731856
Diener DR, Curry AM, Johnson KA, Williams BD, Lefebvre PA, Kindle KL, Rosenbaum JL.
Rescue of a paralyzed-flagella mutant of Chlamydomonas by transformation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
87(15):5739-43. PMID: 2377611
Johnson KA,
Rosenbaum JL. (1990) Basal bodies of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii do not contain immunologically detectable DNA. Cell.
62(4):615-9. PMID: 2386994
Johnson KA,
Sussex IM. (1990) Genomic amplification in the cotyledon parenchyma of common
bean. Chromosoma. 99(3):223-30. PMID: 2397660
Johnson, KA.
(1989) The cytologic and molecular analysis of the developmentally controlled
increase in nuclear DNA content in the cotyledon parenchyma of common bean, Phaseolus
vulgaris. Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Ad Hoc Search Committees
Instrument Specialies Search, 2011
Economics
Search Chair, 2006-2007
Biochemistry
Search (at Bryn Mawr College) 2006-2007
Physical
Chemistry Search Chair, 2005-2006
Molecular
and Cellular Evolution Search, 2003-2004
Ecology
Search (at Bryn Mawr College) 2002-2003
Biology/Chemistry
Business Manager Search, 2002
Molecular
Neurobiology Search, 2001-2002
Science
Librarian Search, 2000
Biology
Search, 1998-1999
Histology/microscopy workshop, Garnet Valley High
School AP Biology Class, 2005
Committee for Environmental Responsibility, Haverford
College, 2005-2008
First Interdisciplinary Science Summer Journal Club,
Haverford College, organizer, 2003
Howard Hughes Program Coordinating Committee 2002-2004
Institutional Review Board (Human Subjects), Haverford
College, 2002-2004
Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center Steering
Committee, 2002-2003
Radiation Safety Officer, Haverford College, 1999-2000
Beckman Scholars Selection Committee, 1999-2000
Distinguished Visitors Committee, 1997-2000 (Chair)
Faculty Advisor to First and
Second Year Students, and Majors (annually)
Biology Department Internal Committees (Equipment,
Building, Web Admin., etc.)
Ad Hoc Reviewer (Grant Applications): National Science
Foundation, National Institutes of Health (Minority Biomedical Research Support
Program)
Ad Hoc Reviewer (Manuscripts): Genomics, Trends in
Cell Biology, Journal of Cell Science, Chromosoma
Ad Hoc Reviewer/Glossator, Personnel Cases: Haverford,
Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, Reed and Loyola Colleges
Invited contributor, Graduate Record Examination in
Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology
Professional
Memberships
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society for Cell Biology
American Society for Microbiology
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