CURRICULUM VITAE
JAMES CHADWICK JOHNSON
Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University,Campus Box 4120, Normal, IL 61790-4120, USA
Date and place of birth 10 August 1968, Atlanta, GA
e-mail jcjohns@ilstu.edu
Telephone: Office 309-438-5438 Fax 309-438-3722
EDUCATION
M.S. Biology, Illinois St. University, Normal, Illinois, Expected date of graduation: 12-97
Advisor: Scott K. Sakaluk, G.P.A. = 4.0/4.0.
B.S. Equivalent Zoology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 1994
B.A. Psychobiology, Honors, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana 1990
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am interested in the evolution of animal behavior. In particular, I study mating system dynamics. My research goals center around the experimental elucidation of animal behaviors which are predicted to be driven by sexual selection. Specifically, my thesis research investigates mechanisms of post-copulatory female mate choice in sagebrush crickets (Cyphoderris strepitans). In addition, I am interested in the intersection of animal behavior with other disciplines such as physiology, ecology, and phylogeny.
Return to home for individual project descriptions and abstracts.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant Dr. Scott K. Sakaluk, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Dr. Sakaluk currently provides me with financial support as his full time research assistant through a National Science Foundation Research Grant. My responsibilities include data collection, rearing and maintaining cricket populations in the lab, statistically analyzing data (SAS), and preparing manuscripts. Presently, we are conducting an intra-specific test of the sensory exploitation hypothesis as a mechanism underlying post-copulatory female mate choice in decorated crickets (Gryllodes sigillatus).
Research Assistant Dr. David Westneat, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Assisted on a study of extra-pair copulation in Red-Winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus). Responsibilities included: 1) trapping, color banding, bleeding, and measuring males, females, and nestlings 2) daily censuses documenting male territory boundaries 3) nest searching 4) focal male behavioral observations 5) dummy female presentations and sperm collection. April 1995 - July 1995
Research Assistant Dr. J.B. Dunning, The Univ. of Georgia, Institute of Ecology, Athens, GA
Field assistant on a study of avian habitat suitability across a range of dominant vegetation types. Responsibilities included censusing bird species. Special emphasis was placed on the density of Bachman's sparrow (Aimophila aestivalis). Behavioral observations focused on breeding success, territory choice and size, as well as distance of territory from effective clearcut edges. Other responsibilities included vegetation sampling, data entry and analysis, nest searching, and banding mist-netted adults and young. June 1994 - September 1994
Research Assistant Dr. Joe Wu, The Univ. of California's Brain Imaging Center, Irvine, CA
Coordinated several psychiatric research projects designed to investigate correlations between severe mental illness and brain tissue structure and metabolic activity using PET and MRI brain imagery. Responsibilities included recruiting and screening psychiatric patients, maintaining databanks, statistically analyzing data (BMDP), conducting comprehensive literature reviews, writing, editing, and proofreading manuscripts. June 1990 - June 1991
PUBLICATIONS
Johnson JC, Ivy TM, Sakaluk SK In prep. Sexual cannibalism delays female remating in sagebrush crickets: a mechanism of cryptic female choice.
Johnson JC, Ivy TM, Calos J, Sakaluk SK In prep. Post-copulatory mate guarding in the field cricket, Gryllus veletis: tests of the spermatophore-retention and rival male exclusion hypotheses. In preparation.
Johnson JC, Ivy TM, Eggert A-K, Sakaluk SK 1997. Post-copulatory female choice in sagebrush crickets (Cyphoderris strepitans). University of Wyoming / National Park Service Research Center Annual Report. In press.
Ivy TM, Johnson JC, Sakaluk SK In prep. Courtship feeding in decorated crickets: water as a nuptial gift.
Wu JC, Buchsbaum MS, Johnson JC, Hershey TG 1993. Magnetic resonance and PET imaging of the corpus callosum: Size, shape and metabolic rate in unipolar depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 28 (1): 15-25.
Wu JC, Gillin JC, Buchsbaum MS, Hershey TG, Johnson JC, Bunney WE 1992. Effect of sleep deprivation on brain metabolism of depressed patients. American Journal of Psychiatry, 149 (4): 538-543.
Wu JC, Buchsbaum MS, Hershey TG, Hazlett E, Johnson JC 1991. PET in Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 29: 81-99.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
In my first year of graduate school I served as a full time teaching assistant. Classes taught include introductory biology, evolutionary ecology, and biological diversity. Responsibilites included lecturing in laboratory sections, preparing quizzes, and grading lab reports. For the course in diversity I was named head teaching assistant which involved coordinating all aspects of the lecture and lab with the instructors.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Animal Behavior Society
International Society of Behavioral Ecologists
Phi Sigma Biological Sciences Honor Society
Society for the Study of Evolution
AWARDS AND HONORS
Omar Rilett Travel Scholarship, Illinois St. University, 1996, $125.00 & 1997, $235.00
Phi Sigma Research Grant, Illinois St. University, 1996, $300.00 & 1997, $353.00
Edward Mockford Summer Fellowship for Outstanding Thesis Research, Illinois St. University, 1997, $2100.00
PROFESSIONAL TALKS AND INVITED SEMINARS
Sexual cannibalism delays female remating in sagebrush crickets, Cyphoderris strepitans: a mechanism of cryptic female choice. 1997 Midwest Regional Animal Behaviour Society Conference. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Mechanisms of female choice in sagebrush crickets, Cyphoderris strepitans: the effect of nutrient load and opportunities for sexual cannibalsim on female propensity to mate. 1997 Departmental Seminar Series, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Return to home