Graham Johnson (scientist)

Graham Johnson
Johnson in 2022
Born	1973 (age 49–50) Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater	St. Mary's College of Maryland (B.A.) Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (M.A.) The Scripps Research Institute (PhD in Biology with a Biophysics track)
Known for	Medical illustration, NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, NSF and Science Magazine Scientific Visualization Challenge, computational biology, and scientific visualization
Scientific career
Doctoral advisor	Arthur Olson TSRI

Graham Johnson is an animator, illustrator and, beginning in 2012, faculty fellow at the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences. He has a master's degree in medical illustration from Johns Hopkins, and a PhD in biophysics from Scripps. After graduating from Johns Hopkins and while working at the Salk Institute, he illustrated the textbook Cell Biology.

Johnson is the creator of the software applications "autoPACK" and "cellPACK" which enable modeling, simulation and visualization of mesoscopic three-dimensional spatial data utilizing packing algorithms.

Further reading

• Peer-reviewed article on the cellPACK software application: Johnson, Graham T.; Autin, Ludovic; Al-alusi, Mostafa; Goodsell, David S.; Sanner, Michel F.; Olson, Arthur J. (2015). "cellPACK: a virtual mesoscope to model and visualize structural systems biology". Nature Methods. 12 (1): 85–91. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3204. PMC 4281296. PMID 25437435.