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Johnson Lab

Welcome to the Dark Side of Biology

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Knee High in the waters of California

Unlike last year, now known as California's mega drought, this year has started with water in the ponds.

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Summer necropsy well underway!

The summer necropsy team has been busy dissecting and identifying amphibian parasites...

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Osprey's at the Denver Nature and Science Museum

Necropsy of osprey in search of unique trematode genus Scaphanocephalus which is linked to Black Spotted Syndrome (BSS) in Caribbean fishes. 

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New Paper! Worm-eat-worm world

Graduate student Brendan Hobart lead an investigation into the association of a snail predator Chaetogaster limnaei and nine trematodes...

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Science meets visual arts

Undergraduate student Madelyn Maclaughlin drew a visual representation of her group project in this years annual UROP Sidewalk Symposium...

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Congrats Wynne and Travis!

Both graduate students Wynne Moss and Travis McDevitt-Galles successfully completed their PhD’s and landed competitive post-doctoral positions...

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What We Do

Our research focuses on two pervasive and inter-related forms of biological change: disease emergence and species invasions. Both have important consequences not only for individuals and populations, but for entire ecological communities and ecosystem processes. Invasions and disease can also have costly economic and health repercussions for human society.  Our group strives to bring a broad perspective to these questions by combining field experiments, large-scale spatial and temporal field data, molecular tools and ecological modeling.

Disease Community Ecology, Parasites, Frogs, Ribeiroia

Disease Community Ecology

We apply approaches from community ecology to better understand and manage contemporary disease threats of humans and wildlife, which are often the product of interactions among multiple host species, coinfecting parasites, and other species.

Our troubled waters, ecosystem, Johnson Lab

Our Troubled Waters

Lakes, rivers, ponds and streams have become some of the most imperiled habitats on earth. Our group uses diverse tools ranging from genomics to ecosystem experiments to understand how freshwater systems are changing and at what cost.

Conservation, management, climate change, ecosystem, Johnson Lab

Complexity in Conservation

Effective management requires approaches than can measure, anticipate and ameliorate the consequences of interactive stressors, such as land use change, pollution, invasive species and climate shifts.

Check out our other projects!

Interested in learning more about the Johnson Lab? Find out more about specific projects by checking out our other websites. If you would like to support future research, click the link below to make a donation to the Johnson Lab.

Malformation Nation Parasite Observatory Donate Here!

Johnson Laboratory

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 
Ramaley N122, CB334
University of Colorado 
Boulder, CO 80309-0334
303.492.5623

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