CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

CONTACT INFORMATION
Address:   Museum of Comparative Zoology Laboratories, Room 515
               26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Telephone:   617-495-5600
Fax:        617-496-4079
Email:    cjohnson@oeb.harvard.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Influence of environmental factors on various developmental stages of marine bryozoans. Previous research focused on the impact dissolved organic matter had on metamorphic success and size of the post-metamorphic individual (ancestrula). More recently, I investigated the effect of salinity on anatomical variation in ancestrulae of Bugula stolonifera. In addition, I began using molecular tools to examine the extent of outcrossing in B. stolonifera, and plan to use these tools to examine potential phylogeographic structure associated with this species.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2007 Johnson, C.H. and D.E. Wendt. Availability of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) Offsets Ecological Costs Associated with a Protracted Larval Period for Bugula neritina (Bryozoa). Marine Biology 151: 301-311).

2006 Wendt, D.E. and C.H. Johnson. Using latent effects to determine the ecological importance of dissolved organic matter to marine invertebrates.  Integrative and Comparative Biology 46: 634-642.