Dr. Julie Dragon

Research Associate

BACKGROUND

Dr. Dragon received her BA in Anthroplogoy from the University of Florida and her PhD in Plant Biology from the University of Vermont (UVM). She was a visiting professor at Middlebury College for one year teaching Ecology and Plant Biology, and then completed a two-year postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Plant Science at McGill University researching plant hybridization and salt tolerance before joining the Vermont Genetics Network (VGN) as a research professor at Norwich University. From Norwich, she served as a data analyst in the VGN Bioinformatics Core and Outreach Team, assisting researchers with microarray data analysis and supported the Outreach Team with technology transfer and science education.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Dragon JA and Barrington DS. East vs. West: monophyletic clades within the paraphyletic Carex acuta complex, section Phacocystis (CYPERACEAE) in Sedges: uses, diversity, and systematics of the Cyperaceae, eds. RFC Naczi and BA Ford. Monographs in systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden: St. Louis, Missouri 2008

Dragon JA, Barrington DS. Systematics of the Carex aquatilis and C. lenticularis lineages: Geographically and ecologically divergent sister clades of Carex section Phacocystis (Cyperaceae). Am J Bot. 2009 Oct;96(10):1896-906.

Carlson LA, Tighe SW, Westcott NW; Kenefick RW, Dragon J, and LeClair RJ. Global gene expression and immunophenotyping results in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells following resistance exercise. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2011 Online First