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Dr. Johnson received an undergraduate degree in Biopsychology from the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1994. His graduate work was conducted in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at UCSB where he received his PhD in 2000. Dr. Johnson's graduate work focussed on the development of rod and cone photoreceptors cells in the retina and included the novel observation that a subpopulation of rod and cone photoreceptors transiently grow processes to the inner plexiform layer during development. During his graduate career he co-authored 11 papers, 5 of which were first-authorships. Following his graduate training he was awarded a 2-year Faculty Fellowship by UCSB to pursue research on retinal degeneration in the lab of Dr. Steven Fisher. Dr. Johnson has recently joined the Center for the Study of Macular Degeneration as a Post-doctoral Fellow studying the degeneration of the retina in the neurodegenerative disease Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD).
Contact Information
Phone (805) 893-3611
Fax: (805) 893-2005
E-Mail: p_johnso@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Office: Bio II, Room 6123
Mailing Address
Center for the Study of Macular Degeneration
Neuroscience Research Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106
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