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Director, Rodent Medicine and Surgery Program, Research Animal Resources Dr. Watson received her veterinary degree from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 1980. She worked for several years in private practice (horses and small animals) before moving to the United States in 1985 and completng a fellowship in Comparative Medicine at Johns Hopkins. She then worked as Attending Veterinarian, Arts and Sciences, at the University of Pennsylvania for 5 years, becoming an American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine diplomate in 1990. From 1995 to 2002 she ran her own business helping institutions to develop their animal care and use programs and gain AAALAC accreditation. In 2002 she returned to Johns Hopkins as Asst. Professor.
Dr. Watson is in charge of rodent medical, surgical and special programs at Johns Hopkins. She devises and implements the strategies for surveying rodent colonies at JHU for disease, maintaining rodents free of compromising intercurrent infections, and investigating and eliminating disease outbreaks. She has introduced an on-site Helicobacter PCR diagnostic lab, a cross-fostering service to clean up contaminated rodents, a rodent technical services program and a comprehensive program to jump start research in quarantine. She is webmaster for the Research Animal Resources and MCP websites, moderates the JHU-mousers emailing list, and is in charge of clinical rotations for laboratory animal medicine postdoctoral students and residents. She teaches classes for ACLAM board preparation and lectures on environmental effects on phenotype and basic mouse behavioral phenotyping.
Dr.Watson investigates practical issues that can negatively affect research outcomes. Current
projects include: noise in the animal facility and its effect on age-related hearing loss, fenbendazole's synergistic effects on tumor development, epidemiology of pinworm infection and dietary methods to eradicate Helicobacter sp.
Temperature variations recorded during interinstitutional air shipments of laboratory mice. Eric Syverson, Fernando Pineda and Julie Watson. JAALAS 47 (1) Jan 2008. Steady state Fas-mediated apoptosis controls the tissue distribution but not generation of double negative ??T cells. Mohamood AS, Bargazte D, Xiao Z, Jie C, Yagita H, Ruben D, Watson J, Chakravarti S, Schneck J, Hamad ARA. Submitted 11/07. Old enemies: still with us after all these years. Charles Clifford and Julie Watson. Accepted pending revision for ILAR J. June 2008. New Building, Old Parasite. Mesostigmatid Mites: an Ever-Present Threat to Barrier Rodent Facilities. Watson, J. In Press for ILAR J. June 2008. J.D. Easterbrook1, J.B. Kaplan1, N.B. Vanasco3, W.K. Reeves4, R.H. Purcell5, M.Y. Kosoy6, G.E. Glass1, J. Watson2, and S.L. Klein1A survey of zoonotic pathogens carried by Norway rats in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Epidemiology and Infection EPub ahead of print 2007. J.D. Easterbrook1, J.B. Kaplan1, G.E. Glass1, J. Watson2, and S.L. Klein1.A survey of rodent-borne pathogens carried by wild-caught Norway rats: a potential threat to laboratory rodent colonies. In press. Laboratory Animals (UK). Singletary, SJ, Kirsch, AJ, Watson, J, Karim, BO, Huso, DL, Hurn, P, Murphy, SJ. Lack of Correlation of Vaginal Impedance Measurements with Hormonal Levels in the Rat., Contemporary Topics 44(6) Nov 2005 Watson J, Thompson KN, Feldman SN. Successful Rederivation of Immunocompetent Mice from Colonies infected with Multiple Organisms by Neonatal Transfer with Iodine Immersion. Comparative Medicine Vol 55 (5),October 2005. Recent Abstracts:
Research in Otolaryngology Conference, Feb 2008.
Sources and variability of noise in rodent vivariums: An uncontrolled variable with implications for studies of age-related hearing loss. Amanda M. Lauer, Bradford J. May, and Julie Watson
Impact of Dietary Fenbendazole and Supplemented Vitamins on Growth of Implanted Lymphomas in SCID Mice. P Gao, C Dang, J Watson. JAALAS Vol 46(4) July 2007. Presented AALAS Oct 2007. Novel Nonhuman Primate Puzzle Feeder Reduces Food Wastage and Provides Environmental Enrichment. AS Glenn, J Watson. JAALAS Vol 46(4) July 2007. Presented AALAS Oct 2007. Two Novel Swine Enrichments. AS Glenn, J Watson JAALAS Vol 46(4) July 2007. Presented Oct 07 Bradley RA, Watson J. Successful Rederivation of a Transgenic Rat Strain Infected with Several
Pathogens using Neonatal Transfer with Iodine Immersion. JAALAS Vol 45(4) July 2006. Syversen EA, Watson J. Temperature Fluctuations in Air-shipped Rodents: Impact of Ambient Temperature, Airline, Airport and Courier. JAALAS Vol 45(4) July 2006
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