Dymonn Johnson

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Amber Stratman, PhD

Undergraduate university: Jackson State University, 2017

Enrollment year: 2019

Research summary

My research focuses on a mutation in the dynein motor protein subunit LIC1 (Dync1li1) that leads to increased angiogenesis through enhanced Rab11-mediated endosomal recycling, decreased lysosomal degradation, and increased SRC signaling.

Graduate publications
Johnson D, Colijn S, Richee J, Yano J, Burns M, Davis AE, Pham VN, Saric A, Jain A, Yin Y, Castranova D, Melani M, Fujita M, Grainger S, Bonifacino JS, Weinstein BM, Stratman AN. 2024 Angiogenesis is limited by LIC1-mediated lysosomal trafficking. Angiogenesis, 27(4):943-62. PMCID: PMC11653708

Mason D, Chamacho P, Goeckel M, Tobin B, Vega S, Wu P, Johnson D, Heo S, Wirtz D, Burdick J, Wood L, Chow B, Stratman A, Boerckel J. 2024 Mechanotransductive feedback control of endothelial cell motility and vascular morphogenesis. Elife, 12(RP86668):. PMCID:

Sleat DE, Banach-Petrosky W, Larrimore KE, Nemtsova Y, Wiseman JA, Najafi A, Johnson D, Poole TA, Takahashi K, Cooper JD, Lobel P. 2023 A mouse mutant deficient in both neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis-associated proteins CLN3 and TPP1. J Inherit Metab Dis, 46(4):720-34. PMCID: