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Thomas E. Johnson
Institute for Behavioral Genetics; Integrative Physiology;
Member of the Center for Neuroscience
Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Campus Box 447
RL1 Room 127
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309-0447
email: johnsont@Colorado.EDU
Phone: 303-492-0279
FAX: 303-492-8063
Website: http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/tj-lab
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Professor Johnson received his B.S. from MIT and his Ph.D.
from the Department of Genetics at the University of Washington
in 1975. From 1982 to 1988 he was an Assistant Professor of
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of California,
Irvine. In 1988 he became an Associate Professor of Psychology
at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado,
Boulder; in 1996, he was promoted to Professor.
Dr. Johnson has received numerous awards. These include in
2002 the Kleemeier Award from the Gerontological Society of
America (GSA); this is the Society’s top award; the
Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Award, and in 2002
and 2004 the Sam Goldstein Award. In 2005 he presented the
Hayflick Lecture at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Center for Aging. He was chair of the GSA Publications Committee
1998-2000, section editor of Genetics and Model Systems, Neurobiology
of Aging since 1998, on the National Scientific Advisory Council
for the American Federation for Aging Research(AFAR) since
1991. He chaired the Gordon Conference on the Biology of Aging
in 1997, which many feel heralded the emergence of the new
genetic approach to the analysis of aging. In 1999 he was
an author on the Report to Congress on QTL Mapping for the
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; he was
a member of the Extramural Scientific Advisory Board, Advisor
on Report to Congress for the NIAAA in 1997, and Advisory
on Genetics Portfolio for the NIAAA. He has served on many
grant review committees, including the NSF, the National Institute
on Aging, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, AFAR, and the
Veterans Administration. He is the author of almost 200 papers
and has been invited to present over 185 seminars.
Selected Publications:
http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/~tj-lab
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