Medical High School

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EDUCATION

NSF Predoctoral Fellow

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PhD Candidate: Biophysics Track of Biology

Chemistry and Medical Prerequisites

2002-2004 University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO

GPA 3.76 GRE: 760q 620v

Master of Arts

1995-1997 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, MD

Dept. of Art as Applied to Medicine

See awards and scholarships below

Bachelor of Arts: Scientific Illustration

1991-1995 St. Mary s College of Maryland St. Mary s City,

MD

Cum laude, Dean s List 1991- 1995,

St. Mary s Scholar, 4 years varsity lacrosse

Public High School Diploma

1987-1991 Joppatowne High School Joppa, MD

National Honor Society, 3 years varsity lacrosse,

3 years varsity soccer

ILLUSTRATION EXPERIENCE

Design Consultant

2010-present ImmuneAttack (educational game), Federation of American Scientists,

Washington D.C.

Teaching Assistant and Lecturer

2008-2010 (Molecular Graphics and Protein-Ligand Docking), Structural Biology,

instructed by Ian Wilson, The Scripps Research Institute

NSF Predoctoral Fellow

2005-present Dr. Arthur Olson, PhD Candidate in Biophysics, Molecular Graphics

Lab, The Scripps Research Institute

Illustrator/Coauthor

1999-present Textbook Cell Biology versions 1 and 2 by Tom Pollard, Bill Earnshaw

and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Freelance Medical Illustrator & Cofounder fiVth.com now GrahamJ.com

1997-present

Animator and Narration Collaborator

2000-2002 Molecular Biology of the Cell 4e by Bruce Alberts et al

Macintosh Technical Support Scholar

1996-1997 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Freelance Apprentice

1996 Medical Arts Medical Illustration Services, Dr. Levente Efe, Melbourne,

Australia

Paleontological Illustrator

1995-1996 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Anatomy

AWARDS & FUNDING

Award of Merit

2010 Promiscuous Membrane Drug Transporters Provide Novel Pharmaceutical

Targets, Association of Medical Illustrators, Portland, OR

Visionary Grant

2009-present Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Education.

In Search of Best Methods to Illustrate Complex Information

Predoctoral Fellowship

2006-present The National Science Foundation

NSF: 1st place in illustration

2005 The Synapse Revealed, NSF Science Visualization Challenge, National

Science Foundation and Science Magazine

Certificate of Merit

2005 The Synapse Revealed, Association of Medical Illustrators, Los Angeles, CA

Award of Excellence Cell Biology text, Association of Medical Illustrators, Austin, TX

2002

Annette Burgess Award

1997 Ophthalmological Illustration, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Vesalius Trust Scholarship

1996-1997 Johns Hopkins University, for Masters Thesis entitled 3D Applications in

an Archetype for Education: A Multimedia Computer Frog Dissector with

Accompanying Plastic Model

Certificate of Merit

1996 Dynamic Vasculature of the Politeal Fossa, Association of Medical

Illustrators, Cincinnati, OH

St. Mary s Scholar

1991-1995 4 years deans list, cum laude, St. Mary's College

William P. Didusch Scholarship

1995-1997 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

REFERENCES

Thomas Pollard Yale University, New Haven, CT

William C. Earnshaw University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Arthur Olson The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

Ron Milligan The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

Ian Wilson The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

Gary P. Lees Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Additional references available upon request.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/COMPETITIVELY SELECTED OR INVITED PRESENTATIONS

2010 Guest Speaker, Automated Modeling and Visualization of Subcellular Environments, Link pings University, Sweden (October)

2010 Invited Speaker, Modeling and Animating Molecular and Cellular Biology, Nanoscale Informal Science Education Outreach, National

Informal Science Education Network, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (October)

2010 Workshop Instructor, embedded Python Molecular Viewer, National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) Summer Institute,

UCSF, San Francisco, CA

2010 Invited speaker, Automated Modeling and Visualization of Subcellular Environments, UCSF, San Francisco, CA

2010 Workshop Instructor, embedded Python Molecular Viewer, National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) Summer Institute,

UCSD, La Jolla, CA

2010 Invited speaker, Automated Modeling and Visualization of Subcellular Environments, National Biomedical Computation Resource

(NBCR) Summer Institute, UCSD, La Jolla, CA

2010 Invited Speaker, Automated Modeling and Visualization of Subcellular Environments, World Molecular Engineering Network 20th annual

meeting, San Jose del Cabo, Baja, Mexico

2010 Selected speaker, Automated Visualization of Subcellular Environments, Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, joint

session for Structural Biology and Structural Genomics on Pushing the Limits of Structural Biology: New and Innovative Methods,

Breckenridge, CO

2009 Invited Speaker, Automated Modeling and Visualization of Subcellular Environments, Mini-Symposium Exploring Cell Biology at the

Frontier of 3D Visualization, at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

2009 Informal Presentations at the Educational Resources/Minorities Affairs Committee Booth, Scientific Animation for Research and

Education, at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

2009 Poster, Iterative Probabilistic Deposition Algorithm Fills Subcellular Volumes with Molecular Detail, at the American Society for Cell

Biology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA with authors Graham Johnson, Mostafa Al-Alusi, David Goodsell, and Arthur Olson

2009 Poster, Novel Techniques for the Rapid Visual Inventory & Comparison of 3D Organelle Maps Generated from Cellular Tomograms, at the

American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA with authors Graham Johnson, Andrew Noske, Garry Morgan,

and Brad Marsh

2009 Poster, Structure-Function Complexity of the Insulin Secretory Pathway Revealed from Comparative Whole Cell Maps of Insulin-Secreting Beta

Cells Reconstructed in 3D at 10-15nm Resolution Using Cellular Electron Tomography BJ Marsh, AB Noske, GP Morgan, O Cairncross, MA

Ragan, G Johnson, at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

2009 Poster, Automated Visualization of Subcellular Environments: The Role of Tomography in the Proteomics Era, Gordon Research Conference

on Visualization in Science and Medicine, Oxford, UK

2009 Selected speaker, Automated Visualization of Subcellular Environments: The Role of Tomography in the Proteomics Era, Asia Pacific

Congress on Electron Tomography, Brisbane, Australia

2009-2010 Workshop Instructor, Introduction to Protein Structure via PyMOL and FOLDIT, The Scripps Research Institute Summer

Internship Program, La Jolla, CA

2008 Invited Plenary Lecturer, Automated Visualization of Subcellular Environments: Step Two, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual

Meeting, Indianapolis, IN

2008 Workshop Instructor, Photoshop for Scientists, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

2007 Workshop and Poster, Seeing What Can t yet Be Seen: Life on the Mesoscale, Nanoscale Informal Science Education Outreach, National

Informal Science Education Network, San Francisco, CA

2007 Invited Speaker, Automated Visualization of Subcellular Environments and Complexes: Early Steps, Center for Molecular and Cellular

Dynamics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

2007 Workshop Instructor, Cell and Molecular Biology for the Medical Illustrator, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Meeting,

Boseman, MO

2007 Invited Panelist, Futures Forum, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Meeting, Bozeman, MO

2007 Workshop Instructor, Introduction to Drawing for the Scientist, Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Medicine,

Providence, RI

2007 Invited Speaker, Visualizing Complexity in the Cell, Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Medicine,

Providence, RI

2007, 2008 Short presentation updates, Automated Visualization of Subcellular Environments, World Molecular Engineering Network 18th

and 19th annual meetings, San Jose del Cabot, Baja, Mexico

2007 Invited lectures, Automated Visualization of Subcellular Environments: Step One, Wake Forest University Department of Physics, and

Painting with Numbers, Wake Forest University Department of Art, Winston-Salem, NC

2006, 2007, 2008 Posters, Automated Visualization of Subcellular Environments, Graduate Student Symposium, La Jolla, CA

2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Techniques Instructor, Molecular Graphics for Illustrators, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Meetings,

varied cities, USA

2005 Invited speaker and instructor, Photoshop for Scientists, Conference on The Teaching of Signal Transduction, IECB, Bordeaux, France.

1999 Arron Price Fellows program speaker, Alternative Careers in Science, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA

1997 Vesalius Trust Award Presentation, 3D Applications in an Archetype for Education: A Multimedia Computer Frog Dissector With

Accompanying Plastic Model. Association of Medical illustrators Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2007 G Johnson, D Goodsell. Molecule of the Month: Clathrin. Protein Data Bank, www.rcsb.org.

2007 DS Goodsell, GT Johnson, Filling in the gaps: artistic license in education and outreach. PLoS Biology. 2759-2762

T Pollard, W Earnshaw, J Lippincott-Schwartz, G Johnson. Cell Biology 2e. Elsevier, NY, 2007.

T Pollard, W Earnshaw, J Lippincott-Schwartz, G Johnson. Cell Biology 1e. Elsevier, NY, 2002.

David Goodsell. Ga l McGill, Ph.D. & Graham Johnson, Molecular Animators http://

www.pdb.org/pdb/static.do?p=/education_discussion/animation/McGill-Johnson-QA.html, 2009.

G Johnson, L Autin, M Sanner, D Goodsell, A Olson. ePMV Embeds Molecular Modeling

into Professional Animation Software Environments, Structure, submitted.

A Al-Almoudi, G Johnson, A Frangakis, et al.. The Three-Dimensional Structure of the Desmosomal Plaque, Science, submitted.

G Johnson, M Sanner, M Al-Alusi, L Autin, D Goodsell, A Olson. Automated Modeling and Visualization of

Subcellular Environments, in preparation for Structure.

G Johnson, A Desai, M Cheeseman, A Joglekar, B Earnshaw. The Inner Kinetochore, in prepartion for

Journal of Cell Science

L Autin, G Johnson, M Sanner, D Goodsell, A Olson. ePMV: Embedding Molecular

Modeling into Professional Animation Software, in preparation for Computer Graphics.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS for ILLUSTRATION

Goodsell DS, Johnson GT, Filling in the gaps: artistic license in education & outreach.

PLoS Biol. 2007 Dec. 5 (12):e308. -Coauthored article on artistic license.

Pollard and Earnshaw, Cell Biology 2e. Elsevier, New York, January 2007. -Coauthored 2nd edition of my textbook.

Muhlrad and Michalowski, Howard Hughes Medical Inst. Bulletin, Sept 2005. -Alt splicing and proteasome illustations

Olson, Steve, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin, October 2004. -Synapse illustrations

Wortman, Marc, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin, September 2004. -DNA repair illustrations

Ronald Miller, M.D., Chair Dept. of Anesth. & Preop. Care, UCSF, 2004 -Synapse Illustrations/animations

Ronald Miller, M.D., Chair Dept. of Anesth. & Preop. Care, UCSF, 2004 -Anesthesia literalism cartoons

Bill Young, M.D., Dept. of Anesthesia and Preop. Care, UCSF, 2004 -Aneurysm Dynamics simulation film

Krogh, The Science of Life, Addison-Wesley, 2003. -300 biology watercolor illustrations

Jeanine Wiener-Kronish M.D., Vice Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia and

Preoperative Care, UCSF, 2003 -Pseudomonas animation movie qual.

Pollard and Earnshaw, Cell Biology Electronic Image Collection. W.B. Saunders,

Philadelphia, August 2002. -CD with 16 Flash animations

Pollard and Earnshaw, Cell Biology. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, May 2002. -1600 molecular and cell biology figs.

Alberts et. al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, Garland Science, San Francisco, March 2002. -5 original movies, 1 written script

Alberts et. al., Essential Cell Biology, Garland Science, San Francisco, TBA. -15 narration scripts and storyboards

David Bredt, Synaptic Strength Regulated by Palmitate Cycling on PSD-95. Cell, 2002

108; 849-863. -2 color figures

Susumu Tomita, PDZ Protein Interactions Journal of Cell Biology, pF22, V153, 2001. -2 color figures

Boyer, Concepts in Biochemistry. Brooks/Cole Publishing, Boston, MA, 2001. -Textbook cover co-illustrator

Ron Vale, Journal of Cell Biology. Rockefeller Press, San Francisco, November 27, 2000. -Journal cover art

Milligan, Vale, The Way Things Move. Science, Washington D.C., April 7, 2000. -Animations, illustrations for journal

Mathews, Van Holde, Biochemistry. Addison Wesley Longman, San Francisco, Fall 1999. -Textbook cover art, 40 biochem figs.

Traffic. Munksgaard, Denmark, Fall 1998. -Cover art for add campaign

Barbara Aehlert, EMT Basic Study Guide. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, Fall 1997. -110 ink/color figures

Graham Johnson, 3D Applications in an Archetype for Education: A multimedia

computer frog dissector with accompanying plastic model. JHU School of Med., 1997. -Masters Thesis

Save Our Streams, Macroinvertebrates in the Stream. 1997. -6 foot acrylic outdoor mural

Hand Surgery, Dr. Bruce Conolly, Churchill Livingstone, Feb. 1997. -32 pen and ink illustrations

William S. Peters, Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Replacement, Annals of Thoracic

Surgery, 1997. -6 tonal illustrations

Australian Family Physician, Vol. 25, journals 8, 9, &10, 1996. -8 tonal illustrations

Servier Pharmaceutical, 1996. -A3 size add campaign illustration

J. Walter Thompson, Sydney Agency for Glaxo, 1996. -Full color pharmaceutical ad

M. O leary, Dental Evolution in the Early Eocene Notharctinae (Primates, Adapiformes)

from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Documentation of Gradual Evolution in the Oldest

True Primates, JHU School of Medicine, 1996. -40 tonal rendering

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / ODD JOBS

Tim Harris, Peptimmune, Cambridge, MA 2003, 2004 -Animations for Biotech ad

FMR Graphics, Denver, CO -Courtroom instruction animations

John Ripple, Syntonix, Waltham, MA 2002, 2004 -Animations for pharmaceutical ad

Carolyn Cohen, Brandeis University, 2001 -Actin artwork template

Dan Kiehart, Duke University, 2002 -Actin assembly slide

Kurt Thorn, UCSF, 2000 -Kinesin/tubulin interaction

Anatomy and Physiology of Muscle Tissue, Addison Wesley, 1999 -12 minute animation

DNA Replication, Addison Wesley, 1999 -8 minute animation

David White, Symmetry, Addison Wesley, 1999 -4 minute animation

SKILLS

I have training and experience in the following media:

Carbon dust, Airbrush, Pen and ink, Sculpting, Watercolor, Oils, Pencil

I have training and experience in following computer programs:

Cinema 4D, Flash,Adobe's After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop. Numerous molecular

viewers, COFFEE scripting, C++, Python, Autodock, ePMV

BIOGRAPHY

To read or listen to selected biographies, interviews and articles about my work, please visit the website URL

http://www.grahamj.com/news.html

PORTFOLIO

To view samples of my illustration and animation artwork please visit the website URL

http://www.grahamj.com/portfolio2.html

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