Julie Watson, MA, VetMB, Dipl. ACLAM Assistant Professor, Molecular and |  |
Background and Training
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 completing 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.
Current Roles
Dr. Watson is director of rodent medicine and surgery at Johns Hopkins and in charge of the laboratory animal medicine clinical training program. She devises and implements the strategies for surveying rodent colonies at JHU for disease, maintains rodents free of compromising intercurrent infections, and investigates and eliminates disease outbreaks. She has introduced a diagnostic laboratory for rodent Helicobacters, a cross-fostering service to clean up contaminated rodents, a rodent technical services program for investigators and a comprehensive support program to mitigate research delays due to quarantine. She is webmaster for the Research Animal Resources website, moderates the JHU-mousers emailing list, and teaches classes for ACLAM board preparation.
Research
Dr.Watson investigates practical issues that can negatively affect research outcomes, and collaborates to investigate the effects of new environmental enrichment strategies. Current projects include: noise in the animal facility and its effect on age-related hearing loss, fenbendazole's synergistic effects (with vitamins) on tumor development, epidemiology of pinworm infection, dietary methods to eradicate Helicobacter sp., and impact of cage enrichments on stereotypic behavior in nonhuman primates.
Recent Articles
New Building, Old Parasite: Mesostigmatid mites- an ever present threat to barrier facilities. Julie Watson. ILAR J 49(3) Jun 2008 p 303-9.
Old enemies: still with us after all these years. Charles B Clifford and Julie Watson. ILAR J 49(3) Jun 2008 p. 292-302.
Impact of fenbendazole and supplementary vitamins on tumor growth in SCID mice. Ping Gao, Chi Dang and Julie Watson. Submitted JAALAS 5/08.
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 Blood. 4/08.
Temperature variations recorded during interinstitutional air shipments of laboratory mice. Eric Syverson, Fernando Pineda and Julie Watson. JAALAS 47 (1) Jan 2008.
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.[Epub ahead of print]. Laboratory Animals 2008 (42) p.92-98.
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. Epidemiol Infect. 2007 Jan 15;:1-8 [Epub ahead of print]
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:
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. Research in Otolaryngology Conference, Feb 2008
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. National 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. National AALAS Oct 2007.
Two Novel Swine Enrichments. AS Glenn, J Watson JAALAS Vol 46(4) July 2007. National AALAS 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. National AALAS 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. National AALAS 2006.
