Biography

Graham Johnson is a computational biologist and Certified Medical Illustrator (CMI) with 18 years of professional experience. His lab at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) works to generate, simulate and visualize molecular models of cells. Graham recently joined the Allen Institute for Cell Science as the Director of the Animated Cell. At AICS, Graham and his team will compile heaps of 3D cell microscope images into multi-scale, spatiotemporal and interactive models of cells. They are building an Animated Cell Explorer, which will provide the user interface to a database of integrated cell atlases and all of the data sets used to generate those atlases.