Thomas E. JohnsonDr. Johnson is Associate Professor for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he teaches and conducts research on the genetics of aging and of alcoholism. He is widely recognized as "the major player" in the field of the enetics of aging. Among numerous other awards, he is the 1993 recipient of the Busse Research Award for Biomedical Gerontology, presented at the International Association for Gerontology meeting in Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Johnson is a member of biological and Clinical Again: An Initial Review Group of the NIA, is on the Board of Managing Editors for Mutation Research Experimental Gerontology and Journals of Gerontology, Biological Sciences. He received the 1995 Nathan Shock Award for The Gerontology Research Center and has been elected Chair for the Gordon Conference on the Biology of Aging in 1997. A major part of his work continues to focus on the genetic basis of the aging processes, primarily in C. elegans. Read More Read Less