Associate Professor, Applied BioSciences - GIDP | Associate Professor, Immunobiology | Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Endowed Professor, Keating Family for Interdisciplinary Research at BIO5 Institute | Associate Dean, Basic Science Research and Graduate Studies
Michael D. L. Johnson received his bachelors from Duke University. He obtained a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied the effects of calcium on bacterial motility and attachment under the mentorship of Matthew Redinbo. For his postdoctoral training, Michael Johnson went to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in order to work with Jason Rosch on metal homeostasis of Streptococcus pneumoniae and subsequently with Douglas Green on the mechanisms of LC3-associated phagocytosis. Michael Johnson joined the faculty of the University of Arizona in 2016.