Sonke Johnsen, 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. Costello, M. J., Chauss, D., Mohamed, A., Gilliland, K. O., Johnsen, S., Bates, M., Brennan, L. A., and M. Kantorow, Autophagy and Mitophagy in the Ocular Lens, Journal of Cell Science (Submitted, 2012) .
  2. T. M. Frank and S. Johnsen, Light and vision in the deep-sea benthos. II. Special visual adaptations in deep-sea benthic crustaceans, Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 215 (2012), pp. 3344-3353 .
  3. Tedore, C. A., and S. Johnsen, The function of male-male threat displays in the jumping spider Lyssomanes viridis, Behavioural Processes, vol. 89 (2012), pp. 203-211 .
  4. S. Zylinski and S. Johnsen, Visual cognition in deep-sea cephalopods: what we don’t know and why we don’t know it, in Cephalopod Cognition, edited by S. Darmaillacq and J. Mather. (2012) .
  5. C. A. Tedore and S. Johnsen, Pheromones exert top-down effects on visual recognition in the jumping spider Lyssomanes viridis, Journal of Experimental Biology (Submitted, 2012) .

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