Dr Louise Johnson
Responsibilities
Lecturer
- Admissions Tutor for BSc Zoology
Member of:
- School Athena SWAN Committee
- University-wide committee to promote undergraduate research
Areas of Interest
- 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
Member of the Evolution Research Group
Impact, Enterprise and Outreach
- 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
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
Teaching
- Part 1: Genes and Chromosomes, 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
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 groups / Centres
Publications
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Number of items: 16.
2017
- Taylor, T. B., Wass, A. V., Johnson, L. J. and Dash, P. (2017) Resource competition promotes tumour expansion in experimentally evolved cancer. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17. 268. ISSN 1471-2148 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1117-6
2015
- Taylor, T., Mulley, G., McGuffin, L., Johnson, L., Brockhurst, M., Arseneault, T., Silby, M. and Jackson, R. (2015) Evolutionary rewiring of bacterial regulatory networks. Microbial Cell, 2 (7). pp. 256-258. ISSN 2311-2638 doi: https://doi.org/10.15698/mic2015.07.215
- Taylor, T. B., Mulley, G., Dills, A. H., Alsohim, A. S., McGuffin, L. J., Studholme, D. J., Silby, M. W., Brockhurst, M. A., Johnson, L. J. and Jackson, R. W. (2015) Evolutionary resurrection of flagellar motility via rewiring of the nitrogen regulation system. Science, 347 (6225). pp. 1014-1017. ISSN 0036-8075 doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1259145
2014
- Alsohim, A. S., Taylor, T., Barrett, G., Gallie, J., Zhang, X.-X., Altamirano-Junqueira, A. E., Johnson, L., Rainey, P. B. and Jackson, R. (2014) The biosurfactant viscosin produced by Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 aids spreading motility and plant growth promotion. Environmental Microbiology, 16 (7). pp. 2267-2281. ISSN 1462-2920 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12469
2013
- Taylor, T. B., Johnson, L. J., Jackson, R. W., Brockhurst, M. A. and Dash, P. R. (2013) First steps in experimental cancer evolution. Evolutionary Applications, 6 (3). pp. 535-548. ISSN 1752-4571 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12041
2011
- Jackson, R. W., Johnson, L. J., Clarke, S. R. and Arnold, D. L. (2011) Bacterial pathogen evolution: breaking news. Trends in Genetics, 27 (1). pp. 32-40. ISSN 0168-9525 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2010.10.001
- Johnson, L. J., Cotton, J. A., Lichtenstein, C. P., Elgar, G. S., Nichols, R. A., Polly, P. D. and Le Comber, S. C. (2011) Stops making sense: translational trade-offs and stop codon reassignment. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11 (1). 227. ISSN 1471-2148 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-227
2010
- Johnson, L. J. (2010) Pseudogene rescue: an adaptive mechanism of codon reassignment. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23 (8). pp. 1623-1630. ISSN 1010-061X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02027.x
- Johnson, L. J. and Tricker, P. J. (2010) Epigenomic plasticity within populations: its evolutionary significance and potential. Heredity, 105 (1). pp. 113-121. ISSN 0018-067X doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2010.25
- Johnson, L. J., Giraud, T., Anderson, R. and Hood, M. E. (2010) The impact of genome defense on mobile elements in Microbotryum. Genetica, 138 (3). pp. 313-319. ISSN 1573-6857 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10709-009-9419-2
2008
- Johnson, L. J. (2008) Selfish genetic elements favor the evolution of a distinction between soma and germline. Evolution, 62 (8). pp. 2122-2124. ISSN 0014-3820 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00433.x
- Johnson, L. (2008) Transposon silencing: the extraordinary epigenetics of a transposon trap. Heredity, 100 (1). p. 5. ISSN 1365-2540 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.hdy.6801064
2007
- Antonovics, J., Abbate, J. L., Baker, C. H., Daley, D., Hood, M. E., Jenkins, C. E., Johnson, L. J., Murray, J. J., Panjeti, V., Rudolf, V. H., Sloan, D. and Vondrasek, J. (2007) Evolution by any other name: antibiotic resistance and avoidance of the E-word. PLoS Biology, 5 (2). e30. ISSN 1544-9173
- Johnson, L. J. (2007) The genome strikes back: The evolutionary importance of defence against mobile elements. Evolutionary Biology, 34 (3-4). pp. 121-129. ISSN 0071-3260 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-007-9012-5
2006
- Brookfield, J. F. and Johnson, L. J. (2006) The evolution of mobile DNAs: when will transposons create phylogenies that look as if there is a master gene? Genetics, 173 (2). pp. 1115-23. ISSN 0016-6731 doi: https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.104.027219
- Johnson, L. J. and Brookfield, J. F. (2006) A test of the master gene hypothesis for interspersed repetitive DNA sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 23 (2). pp. 235-9. ISSN 0737-4038 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msj034
Pre 2006
L.J. Johnson, J. Antonovics and M. E. Hood. The evolution of intratetrad mating rates. Evolution 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. Genetics 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).