Principal Investigator, Bond LSC

Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Marc Johnson

School of Medicine

Marco Johnson

Biography

Marc Johnson is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology (MMI).  The Johnson lab studies viral metagenomics through air and water sampling.  A primary focus of the lab is to work with public health to develop tools for monitoring the presence of new and emerging pathogens through wastewater surveillance.  Through their wastewater surveillance work, the lab also studies ‘cryptic lineages’, which are evolutionarily advanced viral lineages from individual with very long persistent infections that are detected from wastewater.  In addition to wastewater, the lab collects air and wastewater samples from diverse sources to establish a more complete picture of the complete virome on earth.