Sonke Johnsen, Ida Stephens Owens Distinguished Professor  

Sonke Johnsen

Education:
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1996
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1988

Office Location: 301 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: sjohnsen@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.biology.duke.edu/johnsenlab/
Additional Web Page: http://opticsoflife.org/

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. Bolin, J; Moreno, V; Johnsen, S; Schweikert, L, Humpback whale (<i>Megaptera novaeangliae</i>) visual acuity allows silhouette detection but not fine detail discrimination over ecological distances., Proceedings. Biological sciences, vol. 292 no. 2047 (May, 2025), pp. 20243101 [doi]  [abs].
  2. Phillips, ML; Granger, JN; Johnsen, S, Collective movement increases initial accuracy and path efficiency in talitrid amphipod orientation., Biology letters, vol. 20 no. 12 (December, 2024), pp. 20240497 [doi]  [abs].
  3. McCoy, DE; Burns, DH; Klopfer, E; Herndon, LK; Ogunlade, B; Dionne, JA; Johnsen, S, Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses., Nature communications, vol. 15 no. 1 (November, 2024), pp. 9445 [doi]  [abs].
  4. Notar, JC; Go, MC; Johnsen, S, Correction to: Learning without a brain: classical conditioning in the ophiuroid Ophiocoma echinata(Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 10.1007/s00265-023-03402-x), Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 78 no. 8 (August, 2024) [doi]  [abs].
  5. Caves, EM; Davis, AL; Johnsen, S, Nanoscale ultrastructures increase the visual conspicuousness of signalling traits in obligate cleaner shrimps., The Journal of experimental biology, vol. 227 no. 16 (August, 2024), pp. jeb248064 [doi]  [abs].