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Margaret Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University, where she has been since 2013. Her research group focuses on self-assembly and self-organization in cellular systems, with emphasis on clathrin-mediated endocytosis, viral exit mechanisms, and transcriptional regulation.
Education:
- B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University
- Ph.D. in Bioengineering from University of California, Berkeley
Her multidisciplinary research combines statistical mechanics, computational modeling, and experimental collaborations to study how macromolecular self-assembly is spatially and temporally controlled in biological systems. Key areas include dimensional reduction effects in protein binding, membrane remodeling dynamics, and reaction-diffusion modeling of cellular processes.
Recent publications highlight her group's work on
- optimal kinetic pathways for self-assembly
- membrane-associated assembly mechanisms
- dimensional reduction effects in biological systems
- parallelized simulation algorithms
- temporal control of viral assembly
- membrane energy and protein lattice formation
Scientific Awards:
- NIH Pathway to Independence Award
- NSF CAREER Award
- NIH MIRA Award
Margaret's group has trained numerous graduate and postdoctoral researchers, with recent graduates securing academic positions and PhD programs at top institutions. Her lab actively develops open-source simulation tools and maintains collaborations across disciplines to advance understanding of non-equilibrium biological systems.
