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Pellman Lab - Cell Division and Genome Instability

Pellman Lab - Cell Division and Genome Instability

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Whitney Johnson
WhitneyL_Johnson@dfci.harvard.edu 

EDUCATION
PhD in Biochemistry, Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA, USA

BS in Biochemistry, Southwestern University. Georgetown, TX, USA​
​AWARDS AND HONORS
Damon Runyon Fellowship Award (2018)

Paul and Mildred Berg Stanford Graduate Fellowship (2011)

​National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2011)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Bell, JC, Jukam, D, Teran, NA, Risca, VI, Smith, OK, Johnson, WL, Skotheim, J, Greenleaf, WJ,
Straight, AF. Chromatin-associated RNA sequencing (ChAR-seq) maps genome-wide
RNA-to-DNA contacts. eLIFE 12;7. pii: e27024 (2018).

Johnson, WL, Xie, KT, Kwon, M, Liu, S, Pellman, D. How the Genome Folds, Divides, Lives,
and Dies. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol., 82:349-360 (2017).

Johnson, WL, Yewdell, WT, Bell, JC, McNulty, SM, Duda, Z, O’Neill, RJ, Sullivan, BA, Straight, AF.
RNA-dependent stabilization of SUV39H1 at constitutive heterochromatin. eLIFE 1;6. pii:
e25299 (2017).

Johnson WL, Straight AF. RNA-mediated regulation of heterochromatin. Curr Opin Cell Biol,
46:102-109 (2017).

Lee, CS, Bhaduri, A, Mah, A, Johnson, WL, Ungewickell, A, Aros, CJ, Nguyen, CB, Rios, EJ,
Siprashvili, Z, Straight, AF, Kim, J, Aasi, SZ, Khavari, PA. Recurrent point mutations in the
kinetochore gene KNSTRN in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Nature Genetics, Oct;
46(10): 1060-1062 (2014).

Johnson, WL, Straight, AF. Fluorescent protein applications in microscopy. Methods Cell
Biol.,114: 99-123 (2013).

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