Erin E. Johnson

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

Telephone: 216-397-4253
Email: exjohnson@jcu.edu
Office: Dolan W245

B.S. in Biology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Ph.D. in Medical Sciences, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH
Post-doctoral research in Iron Metabolism and Infectious Disease, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Research Interests

Regulation of iron metabolism and infectious disease

Recent Courses

BL 155 - Principles of Biology I lecture
BL 310/310L - Microbiology lecture and laboratory

Selected Publications

Deb, S., Johnson, E.E., Robalinho-Teixeira, R.L., and Wessling-Resnick, M. (2009) Modulation of Intracellular Iron Levels by Oxidative Stress Implicates a Novel Role for Iron in Signal Transduction.
Biometals (Epub): DOI 10.1007/s10534-009-9214-7.

Wang, L., Johnson, E.E., Shi, H.N., Walker, W.A., Wessling-Resnick, M. and Cherayil, B.J. (2008) Attenuated Inflammatory Responses in Hemochromatosis Reveal a Role for Iron in the Regulation of Macrophage Cytokine Translation. The Journal of Immunology 181(4): 2723-31.

Overmeyer, J.H.*, Kaul, A.*, Johnson, E.E., Maltese, W.A. (2008) Active Ras Triggers Death in Glioblastoma Cells Through Hyperstimulation of Macropinocytosis. Molecular Cancer Research 6 (6): 965- 977. *These authors contributed equally to the work.

Johnson, E.E. and Wessling-Resnick, M. (2007) Flatiron Mice and Ferroportin Disease. Nutrition Reviews
65 (7): 341-345.

Chlosta, S., Fishman, D.S., Harrington, L., Johnson, E.E., Knutson, M.D., Wessling-Resnick, M., and Cherayil, B.J. (2006) The Iron Efflux Protein Ferroportin Regulates the Intracellular Growth of Salmonella enterica. Infection and Immunity 74 (5): 3065-3067.

Johnson, E.E., Overmeyer J.H., Gunning, W.T., and Maltese, W.A. (2006) siRNA-Mediated Gene Silencing Reveals a Specific Function of Mammalian Vps34 Phophatidylinositol 3-Kinase in Late Versus Early Endosomes. Journal of Cell Science 119 (7): 1219-1232.

Links

• American Society for Microbiology
  
• American Society for Cell Biology