Faculty Fellows

Thomas E. Johnson

447 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0447
phone: (303) 492-0279
fax: (303) 492-8063
email:
johnsont@colorado.edu
website:
The Johnson Lab (ibg.colorado.edu/tj-lab)

Research Interests:

Genetics dissection of the longevity-enhancing properties of dietary restriction in both the nematode worm and in the mouse. Studies of stochasticity in longevity and rate of aging in the nematode. Predictions of longevity.

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Selected Publications:

1. Tissenbaum, H.A. and Johnson, T.E., (2008) Aging Processes in Caenorhabditis elegans, in Molecular Biology of Aging. Guarente, L., Partridge, L., & Wallace, D., (Eds) Cold Spring Harbor Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., pp. 153-183.

2. Budovskaya, Y.V. Wu K, Southworth, L. K., Jiang, M., Tedesco, P., Johnson, T. E., and Kim, S. K., (2008). An elt-3/elt-5/elt-6 GATA transcription circuit guides aging in C. elegans. Cell, 134: 291-303. PMID: 18662544 | pubmed abstract |

3. Rea, S. L., Ventura, N and Johnson, T. E., (2007) Relationship between mitochondrial electron transport chain dysfunction, development and life extension in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLOS Biology, 5(10): e259.| pubmed article |

4. Rikke, B. A., and Johnson, T. E., (2007) Physiological genetics of dietary restriction: uncoupling the body temperature and body weight responses. Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol., 293:R1522-R1527. | pubmed abstract |