Following graduation, he served as a postdoctoral research fellow in the prestigious John B. Pierce Laboratory and Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale University School of Medicine, where he investigated the effects of exercise and diet
on gene regulation in muscle tissue.
After graduation, he served as a postdoctoral research fellow in the prestigious John B. Pierce Laboratory and department of cellular and molecular physiology at Yale University School of Medicine, where he investigated the effects of exercise and
diet on gene regulation in muscle tissue.
He's also eager to return full time to his HHMI - supported lab at the University of California, Berkeley, which has shifted its
work on gene regulation from wet biochemistry to imaging single molecules in living cells.
Lead researcher, Dr Luca Penso Dolfin from TGAC's Vertebrate & Health Genomics Group, said: «As miRNAs are so important in orchestrating a variety of cellular processes, the discovery of these 91 novel miRNAs provides a vital starting point to explore their potentially major
effects on gene regulation.»
We are also establishing novel functional strategies, based on targeted and high throughput reporter assays, to assess the relevance of the spatial
environment on gene regulation.
In brief, the studies consisted of seven
analyses on gene regulation in undifferentiated ES cells, focusing on LIF targets, Stat3 and PI3K regulated genes, as well as global gene expression changes through epigenetic mechanisms; and, four studies where ES cells were allowed to differentiate in monolayers or as embryoid bodies.
Johnson, whose name appears in the video, said that many people have been contacting him personally, wanting to hear about his research (which is
on gene regulation in cancer and HIV).