Joshua Johnson

Joshua Johnson

Research laboratory at the CU-Anschutz School of Medicine | DRS | REI | Basic/translational studies of the mammalian ovary

Talks and presentations

Rogerio Lobo, M.D. Award Acceptance Talk: Control of Primordial Follicle Growth Activation by IkappaB/NFkappaB Signaling.

July 09, 2021

Talk, SRI 68th Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, MA, USA

Our publication with University of Colorado-AMC collaborator Dr. Clyde Wright received the 2020 Rogerio Lobo Award at the Society for Reproductive Investigation meeting in Boston. This award is given to manuscript selected as the best published in the society’s journal Reproductive Sciences in a calendar year. Link to published manuscript

Ovarian Recovery in Cancer Survivorship. Keynote Lecture

May 21, 2021

Talk, Fertility Preservation and Late Effects Conference, CU-Anschutz Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aurora, CO, USA

This lecture for a fertility preservation provider audience provided a backdrop of basic and translational ovarian biology. In it, we asked the question: when we cryopreserve patient ovarian cortex, what is it that needs to “go right” so ovarian function recovers? So that the patient has the highest chances for ongoing ovarian function and potential conception? Special consideration was given to potentially compromised ovarian function due to the underlying cancer.

Gene Profiling in Uterosacral Ligaments in Premenopausal Women with Prolapse

September 25, 2019

Talk, AUGS/IUGA Joint Scientific Meeting 2019, Nashville, TN, USA

Dr. Kathleen Connell, Division Director of the Division of Urogynecology and Pelvic Floor Reconstructive Surgery, presented these data on behalf of co-authors Johnson, J., Guess, M.K., Rascoff, L., Orlicky, D., Bales, E.S., Arruda, J., Kumar, R. This lecture is included because this collaborative abstract was awarded the best basic science abstract and presented in the plenary opening session at the AUGS/IUGA Joint Scientific Meeting.

Controlling the Rate of Primordial Ovarian Follicle Growth Activation

March 15, 2019

Talk, SRI/SSR Joint Session Minisymposium, SRI 66th Annual Scientific Meeting, Paris, France

Designed an accepted Minisymposium on this topic for the 2019 Paris Society for Reproductive Investigation Meeting (Paris, France). Co-speakers included Dr. Amanda Kallen (Yale University School of Medicine), Celine Guigon, PhD (University of Paris Diderot-CNRS), and Francesca Duncan (Northwestern University).

Physiological Compromise in Carriers of The Fragile X Premutation: Lessons from the Ovary

June 05, 2017

Talk, University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

A ‘general research interests’ talk for the UC-Denver Integrated Physiology Graduate Program, with focus on our work on Fragile X Premutation. I will cover recent progress in studying basic follicle development and survival, challenges in quantifying ovarian follicles, and the interface between reproductive physiology and reproductive medicine.

Fragile X Primary Ovarian Insufficiency

April 27, 2017

Talk, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.

Research update on FXPOI and our work using CRISPR genome editing to modify Fragile X premutation alleles.

Primordial Follicle Growth Activation

February 27, 2017

Talk, UC-Denver, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aurora, CO

Presentation for Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellows on the genetics and biochemical/signaling regulation of primordial follicle growth activation.

In Vitro Derived Oocytes

July 25, 2016

Talk, Expert Working Group on IVDOs, OvaScience, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Co-leader of expert working group, developing position paper on the state-of-the-science and practicality of generating human eggs in vitro.

Ovarian Follicle Dynamics

November 17, 2015

Talk, University of Milan/Universita San Raffaele, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere., Milan, Italy

Provided a brief survey of the field and original data on the development of individual ovarian follicles within dynamic population(s).

Crime Scene Ovary: Forensic Evaluation of the Mammalian Ovarian Follicle.

September 23, 2015

Talk, Center for Reproductive Biology, Washington State University and the University of Idaho., Pullman, WA

Seminar covered original data describing the growth of “healthy/intact” ovarian follicles and the death and clearance of “dying/atretic” follicles; mechanistic implications also discussed.