| Sonke Johnsen, Professor of Biology
Please note: Sonke has left the "Computational Media, Arts & Cultures" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.
- Contact Info:
Teaching (Spring 2024):
- BIOLOGY 427S.01, SENSORY BIOLOGY
Synopsis
- Bio Sci 113, Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- (also cross-listed as NEUROSCI 427S.01, PSY 427S.01)
Teaching (Fall 2024):
- BIOLOGY 427S.01, SENSORY BIOLOGY
Synopsis
- Bio Sci 155, Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- (also cross-listed as NEUROSCI 427S.01, PSY 427S.01)
- Education:
Ph.D. | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 1996 |
B.A. | Swarthmore College | 1988 |
- Specialties:
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Organismal Biology and Behavior
ecology Ecology and Population Biology fisheries and fish ecology Evolution marine science
- Research Interests: Comparative physiology; focusing on vision, crypsis, optics, and bioluminescence in the open ocean
- Keywords:
- Adaptation, Physiological • Aggression • Agonistic Behavior • Algorithms • Amino Acid Sequence • Animal behavior • Animal Structures • Animals • Anisotropy • Aquatic Organisms • Bahamas • Behavior, Animal • Biological Evolution • Biology • Bioluminescence • Biophysical Phenomena • Biophysics • Birefringence • Brachyura • Butterflies • Calcium Carbonate • Career Choice • Cephalopoda • Choice Behavior • Cognition • Color • Color Perception • Color Vision • Competitive Behavior • Computer Simulation • Contrast Sensitivity • Courtship • Cryptochromes • Crystallins • Cues • Decapodiformes • Differentiation • Dimerization • Eavesdropping • Ecology • Ecosystem • Electromagnetic Fields • Electron microscopy • Electron Probe Microanalysis • Eye • Faculty • Feeding Behavior • Female • Fishes • Flavoproteins • Florida • Form Perception • Fourier Analysis • Glutathione Transferase • History, 21st Century • Invertebrates • Iron • Lens, Crystalline • Light • Luminescent Measurements • Luminescent Proteins • Magnetics • Male • Marine Biology • Mating Preference, Animal • Mechanoreceptors • Microspectrophotometry • Models, Biological • Models, Theoretical • Molecular Sequence Data • Mollusca • Molting • Monte Carlo Method • Moths • Motion Perception • Motor Activity • Movement • Nervous System Physiological Phenomena • Neurobiology • Oceans and Seas • Octopodiformes • Ocular Physiological Phenomena • Ocular Physiological Processes • Optics • Optics and Photonics • Orientation • Oxides • Pacific Ocean • Palaemonidae • Particle Size • Passeriformes • Pattern Recognition, Visual • Pectinidae • Perception • Pheromones • Photic Stimulation • Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate • Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate • Phylogeny • Pigmentation • Polychaeta • Polyplacophora • Predatory Behavior • Psychophysics • Quantum Theory • Refraction, Ocular • Refractometry • Retinal Pigments • Rhodopsin • Rod Opsins • Salinity • Scattering, Radiation • Scyphozoa • Sea Urchins • Seawater • Selection • Sexual Behavior, Animal • Silicon Dioxide • Species Specificity • Specimen Handling • Spectrometry, Fluorescence • Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization • Spectrum Analysis • Sperm Whale • Spiders • Static Electricity • Strongylocentrotus purpuratus • Temperature • Time Factors • United States • User-Computer Interface • Video Recording • Vision • Vision, Ocular • Visual Acuity • Visual Perception • Water • X-Ray Diffraction • Zooplankton
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Eleanor Caves
- Kate Thomas
- Laura E. Bagge
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- Postdocs Mentored
- Christine Bedore (May 01, 2013 - present)
- Karin Akre (April 01, 2013 - present)
- Yakir Gagnon (November 1, 2010 - July 01, 2013)
- Sarah Zylinski (November 1, 2009 - September 15, 2012)
- Sandra Cooke (September 1, 2008 - July 15, 2012)
- Dina Leech (September 1, 2001 - March 1, 2003)
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
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- Caves, EM; Davis, AL; Nowicki, S; Johnsen, S, Backgrounds and the evolution of visual signals.,
Trends in ecology & evolution, vol. 39 no. 2
(February, 2024),
pp. 188-198 [doi] [abs]
- Notar, JC; Go, MC; Johnsen, S, Learning without a brain: classical conditioning in the ophiuroid Ophiocoma echinata,
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 77 no. 11
(November, 2023) [doi] [abs]
- Nilsson, D-E; Johnsen, S; Warrant, E, Cephalopod versus vertebrate eyes.,
Current biology : CB, vol. 33 no. 20
(October, 2023),
pp. R1100-R1105 [doi] [abs]
- Caves, EM; Sutton, TT; Warrant, EJ; Johnsen, S, Measures and models of visual acuity in epipelagic and mesopelagic teleosts and elasmobranchs.,
Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, vol. 209 no. 5
(September, 2023),
pp. 807-826 [doi] [abs]
- McCoy, DE; Shultz, AJ; Dall, JE; Dionne, JA; Johnsen, S, The carotenoid redshift: Physical basis and implications for visual signaling.,
Ecology and evolution, vol. 13 no. 9
(September, 2023),
pp. e10408 [doi] [abs]
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