Sonke Johnsen, Associate Professor  

Sonke Johnsen

Education:
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996
BA with Distinction (highest honor), Swarthmore College, 1988

Office Location: BioSci: 301
Office Phone: (919) 660-7321
Email Address: sjohnsen@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.biology.duke.edu/johnsenlab/

Specialties:
Organismal Biology and Behavior
Ecology and Population Biology
Evolution

Research Categories: Comparative physiology; focusing on vision, crypsis, optics, and bioluminescence in the open ocean

Research Description:

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. S. Johnsen and K. J. Lohmann, Magnetoreception in animals, Physics Today, vol. 61 no. 3 (2008), pp. 29-35 .
  2. Gilliland, K. O., Johnsen, S., Metlapally, S., Costello, M. J., Ramamurthy, B., Krishna, P. V. and D. Balasubramanian, Mie Light Scattering Calculations for Multilamellar Bodies in Indian Age-Related Nuclear Cataracts, Molecular Vision, vol. 14 (2008), pp. 572-582 .
  3. Metlapally, S., Costello, M. J., Gilliland, K. O., Ramamurthy, B., Krishna, P. V., Balasubramanian, D., and S. Johnsen, Analysis of nuclear lens fiber cell cytoplasmic texture in advanced cataractous lenses from Indian subjects using Debye-Bueche theory, Experimental Eye Research, vol. 86 (2008), pp. 434-444 .
  4. D. Speiser and S. Johnsen, Scallops visually respond to the presence and speed of virtual particles, Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 211 (2008), pp. 2066-2070 .
  5. Costello, M. J., Johnsen, S., Gilliland, K. O., Metlapally, S., Ramamurthy, B., Krishna, P. V., Balasubramanian, D., Ultrastructural analysis of damage to nuclear fiber cell membranes in advanced age-related cataracts from India, Experimental Eye Research, vol. 87 (2008), pp. 147-158 .

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