Philip Johnson

evolution & population genetics, particularly as applied to infectious diseases and metagenomics

• International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium. (2004). Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome. Nature 431, 931-945.
• Bulyk ML, Johnson PLF, Church GM. (2002). Nucleotides of transcription factor binding sites exert interdependent effects on the binding affinities of transcription factors. Nucleic Acids Research 30, 1255-1261.
• Cross PC, Lloyd-Smith JO, Johnson PLF, Getz WM. (2005). Duelling timescales of host movement and disease recovery determine invasion of disease in structured populations. Ecology Letters 8, 587-595.
• Johnson PLF, Slatkin M. (2006). Inference of population genetic parameters in metagenomics: a clean look at messy data. Genome Research 16, 1320-1327.
• Getz WM, Lloyd-Smith JO, Cross PC, Bar-David S, Johnson PLF, Porco TC, Sánchez MS. (2006). Modeling the invasion and spread of contagious disease in heterogeneous populations. In Feng, Z., Dieckmann, U., Levin, S.A. (Eds.), Disease Evolution: Models, Concepts and Data Analyses, AMS-DIMACS Series, pp. 113-144. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI.
• Cross PC, Johnson PLF, Lloyd-Smith JO, Getz WM. (2007) Utility of R0 as a predictor of disease invasion in structured populations. J R Soc Interface 4, 315-324.
• Johnson PLF, Slatkin M. (2008) Accounting for Bias from Sequencing Error in Population Genetic Estimates. Mol Biol Evol 25, 199-206.
• Briggs AW, Stenzel U, Johnson PLF, Green RE, Kelso J, Prüfer K, Meyer M, Krause J, Ronan MT, Lachmann M, Pääbo S. (2007). Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 104(37), 14616-21.
• Green R et al.. (2008) A Complete Neandertal Mitochondrial Genome Sequence Determined by High-Throughput Sequencing. Cell 134, 416-426.