Erynn Johnson, Phd Email & Phone Number

Stillwater, Minnesota, United States

In this position, I leverage strong scientific writing, leadership, and organizational skills to innovate automated in vitro diagnostic immunoassays and contribute to the portfolio of urgent, specialty, and routine diagnostic product offerings around the globe. I manage device development and validation through the design control process and create risk.

- Developing research initiatives for the identification of disease biomarkers and signaling mechanisms underlying stress co-morbidities in a rare and lethal genetic neuromuscular wasting disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy.- Managing daily laboratory operations and supervising junior research staff for the production of high-quality publications and data.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• PhD Dissertation: Metabolic and proteomic characterization of stress susceptibility in the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
• Collaborated to perform customized chemo-proteomics and discovery proteomics analyses to reveal novel redox and myokine signaling contributions to pathophysiology in the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
• Established and implemented targeted LC-MS/MS metabolomics panel to characterize metabolic dysfunction in mdx mice.
• Optimized and executed stress physiological assays and blood pressure measurements in mice.
• Generated three genetically edited mouse models to modulate skeletal muscle metabolism.
• Performed qPCR, western blotting, immunofluorescence, ELISA, and spectrophotometric assays for expression and enzyme activity analysis.

Lincoln, Nebraska

• Led cross-institutional collaborative research study with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to optimize analytical ultra-thin layer chromatography devices for pharmacological applications.
• Taught, mentored, and delivered lectures for over 30 organic chemistry students as interim head instructor.
• Developed and organized course materials and delegated tasks as head laboratory TA for undergraduate chemistry course.
• Worked independently to write research-based thesis paper as member of honors society.
• Received merit-based full-tuition scholarship and four awards for excellence in scholarship and chemistry research.
• Created and presented three original research posters and five research presentations for interdepartmental and national symposia.

Lincoln, Nebraska

West Lafayette, Indiana

• Developed interdisciplinary collaboration to characterize novel electrophilic chemistry of large anionic boron clusters for materials science and oncology applications.
• Acquired technical expertise in custom-built mass spectrometers for gas-phase molecular reactions.
• Performed data analysis including thermodynamic computational modeling.
• Drafted and reviewed manuscript to receive co-authorship on published work in International Journal of Mass Spectrometry.
• Created and presented a poster at two conferences, including regional ACS meeting.
• Presented novel findings as an invited oral presenter at a national symposium.

Lincoln, Nebraska Area

• Supported cross-functional collaboration between analytical chemistry and electrical engineering departments to develop high-throughput drug-protein interaction screening technology.
• Acquired technical experience in nanomaterial thin film construction and designed, prototyped, and tested microfluidic device technology.
• Drafted and presented thesis research manuscript and award-winning poster at institutional and national symposia.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biochemistry, Biophysics And Molecular Biology

Activities and Societies: Council of Graduate Students Institute for Biology of Aging and Metabolism working group member (2019-2022) NIH.

Chemistry