February 14, 2023 12:00pm - 1:00pm Beyond the Bench, PI: Everything you were never trained on with Lance Johnson, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology

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After their graduate and postdoc training many new tenure-track faculty have world class bench skills thanks to their training of designing experiments, learning new cutting-edge methods, and perfecting their research techniques. However, being a successful Prinicpal Investigator (PI) requires many skills outside of the lab.

This discussion will focus on the many of those critical skills that academics often don't get formalized training in, such as: finances and budgeting, human resource management, and administration among other necessary skills to succesfully run an academic lab.

About the speaker: Lance Johnson, PhD, grew up in Asheville, NC and attended the University of North Carolina for both his undergraduate and graduate studies. He completed his PhD in the prestigious joint laboratory of Excellence Professor Nobuyo Maeda and Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies. Under their exceptional guidance, Lance studied how the various isoforms of apolipoprotein E (APOE) affected atherosclerotic plaque development. Fascinated by advances in neuroscience and intrigued by the role of ApoE in the brain, Lance secured a position as a NIH-funded Postdoctoral Fellow at Oregon Health & Science University, in beautiful Portland, OR. Under the mentorship of Professor Jacob Raber, he investigated the role of ApoE in metabolism and cognitive function, and explored the mechanisms underlying insulin resistance-associated cerebrovascular dysfunction and recovery. Dr. Johnson joined the Department of Physiology and Sanders Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky in December 2016. In addition to tinkering around in the lab, Lance loves spending time with his wife and kids, being outdoors, cooking, and playing basketball (poorly).