{"id":4537,"date":"2026-08-11T10:35:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=4537"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:08:40","slug":"research-webinar-julie-dragon-transmissible-cancer-discovered-in-catfish-in-vermonts-lakes","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/event\/research-webinar-julie-dragon-transmissible-cancer-discovered-in-catfish-in-vermonts-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Seminar: Transmissible Cancer Discovered in Catfish in Vermont\u2019s Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"197\">Lake Champlain Sea Grant<\/a>\u00a0and the UVM\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/water\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/water\">Water Resources Institute<\/a> are pleased to announce a Fall 2026 Research Seminar Series. This series of five seminars will be held on select Mondays from 12\u20131 PM throughout the semester, with an approximately 30\u201340-minute presentation followed by 20-minutes for questions. Each presentation will be recorded and made available on our website after the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10\/5\u202f(Hybrid: Teams\/Davis Center Room 413) -\u202fJulie Dragon, Transmissible Cancer Discovered in Catfish in Vermont\u2019s Lakes<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>Join online\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/meet\/288623824831075?p=feo5XJ2czVNA4Igw6e\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/meet\/288623824831075?p=feo5XJ2czVNA4Igw6e\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Julie Dragon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular\u00a0Genetics, and\u00a0is Director of the Bioinformatics Core\u00a0in\u00a0the Larner College of Medicine and Director of the Data Science Core for the Vermont Biomedical Research Network. Her work centers on the use of large genomics data sets to address evolutionary, environmental, and biomedical questions.\u00a0Dr. Dragon is committed to\u00a0leveraging\u00a0genomics data to address many issues\u00a0impacting\u00a0our planet and lives.\u00a0She has a\u00a0Ph.D. in Plant Biology\u00a0from\u00a0UVM,\u00a0where she\u00a0studied\u00a0the evolution of an arctic-subarctic section of marsh sedges with Dr. David Barrington.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Champlain Sea Grant\u00a0and the UVM\u00a0Water Resources Institute are pleased&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[133],"tribe_events_cat":[132],"class_list":["post-4537","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-research-seminar","tribe_events_cat-research-webinar","cat_research-webinar"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4553,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4537\/revisions\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}