Research Interests

Education

Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD Bachelors of Science in Chemistry, May 1999

Awards/Honors

Pre-doctoral Scholarship, University of Southern California Department of Chemistry, 2002-2005

Jamaica Awareness Association of California Local Scholarship Award, 2004

Jay Struckhoff Memorial Award, University of Southern California Department of Chemistry, 2004

Merit Fellow, University of Southern California Department of Chemistry (08/99 - 05/02)

Summa Cum Lade Graduate, Morgan State University, 1999

Dean's List, Morgan State University, 1995-1999

The American Chemical Society Award, for outstanding performance in Organic Chemistry

Outstanding Accomplishment in Chemistry: Morgan State University, Department of Chemistry, 1997

American Gastroenterology Association Student Research Fellowship Award

The Maryland Section American Chemical Society (ACS) Award

Full Academic Morgan State Honors Scholarship

Professional Affiliations

Member, American Chemical Society

Member, Grant-Brett Promethean Kappa-Tau Beta

Member, Kappa Chi Honor Society

Publications

Investigation of the ultrafast spectroscopy of macrocyclic poly (9,9-dimethyl-2-vinyl-fluorene) as an artificial light harvester, Johnson, J.M.; Chen, R.; Chen, X.; Germaine, A.C.; Zang, X.; Alberty, K.; Hogen-Esch, T.E. and Bradforth, S.E. (in preparation)

Evidence of energy transfer in macrocyclic Poly (9, 9-dimethyl-2-vinylfluorene) using exciton annihilation dynamics. Johnson, J.M.; Chen, R., Hogen-Esch, T.E. and Bradforth, S.E. (in preparation)

Ultraviolet Absorption and Fluorescence Emission Spectroscopic Studies of Macrocyclic and Linear Poly (9, 9-dimethyl-2-vinylfluorene). Evidence for Ground State Chromophore Interactions. Chen, R.; Johnson, J.M.; Bradforth, S.E. and Hogen-Esch, T.E. Macromolecules, 2003, 36, 9966-9970.

Spectroscopy of macrocyclic poly (9, 9-dimethyl-2-vinyl-fluorene) as an artificial light harvester, Johnson, J.M.; Chen, X.; Germaine, A.C.; Zang, X.; Alberty, K.; Hogen-Esch, T.E. and Bradforth, S.E.

Proceedings Article in Ultrafast Phenomena XIII, ed. Miller, Springer-Verlag, 2003, 517-519.

Solid-state structural and electrical characterization of N-benzyl and N-alkyl naphthalene 1, 4, 5, 8-tetracarboxylic diimides, Katz, H.E.; Siegrist, T.; Schön, J.H.; Kloc, C.; Batlogg, B.; Lovinger, A. J. and Johnson, J.M. ChemPhysChem. 2001, 2 (No.3), 167-172.

Design of organic transistor semiconductors for logic elements, displays, and sensors: Proceeding Article in Organic Field Effect Transistors, ed, Fichou, D.; Bao, Z.; Katz, H.E.; Lovinger, A.J.; Hong, X.M.; Dodabalapur, A.; Johnson, J. M.; Wang, B.; Raghavachari, K. Proc. SPIE Organic Field Effect Transistors. 2001, 4466, 20-30.

Transactivation and growth suppression by the gut-enriched Kruppel-like factor (Kruppel-like factor 4) are dependent on acidic amino acid residues and protein-protein interaction. Geiman, D.E.; Ton-That, H.; Johnson, J.M.; Yang, V.W. Nucleic Acids Research, 2000, 28 (No.5), 1106-1113.

A soluble and air-stable organic semi-conductor with high electron mobility. Katz, H.E.; Lovinger, A.J.; Johnson, J.M.; Kloc, C.; Siegrist, W.; Li, W.; Lin, Y.-Y.; Dodabalapur, A. Nature, 2000, 404,478-81.

Naphthalenetetracarboxylic Diimide-Based n-Channel Transistor Semiconductors: Structural Variation and Thiol Enhanced Gold Contacts. Katz, H.E.; Johnson, J.M.; Lovinger, A.J.; Li, W.J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 32.