Julie Dragon
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Larner College of Medicine
BIO
I am a bioinformatician interested in finding high performance computing solutions to the analysis of every-increasing genomics data. I am particularly interested in the integration of data sets of different resolutions, expression analysis, systems biology, basket studies, and machine learning to identify expression or variant patterns that can lead to improved diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease. My work focuses on multi-variate and uni-variate approaches to data analysis, for a wide range of basic science and translational research projects, including those related to cancer, Immunobiology, autoimmune disease, and DNA repair. In 2014 I became Director of the Bioinformatics Shared Resource (BSR), the Larner College of Medicine’s bioinformatics core facility. In 2016, I became Director of the Vermont Integrative Genomics Resource (VIGR), which fused the BSR with the Advanced Genome Technologies Core (AGTC) to provide wrap around genomics services to investigators. As director of VIGR, my role is to expand and continually update the capacity of the core to create and support cutting-edge genomics-based research for the investigator community at UVM and regionally. Myself and my team assist investigators from the experimental design through to publication of their –omics data.
Area(s) of expertise
Integration of data sets of different resolutions, Expression analysis, Systems biology, Basket studies, Machine learning
Bio
I am a bioinformatician interested in finding high performance computing solutions to the analysis of every-increasing genomics data. I am particularly interested in the integration of data sets of different resolutions, expression analysis, systems biology, basket studies, and machine learning to identify expression or variant patterns that can lead to improved diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease. My work focuses on multi-variate and uni-variate approaches to data analysis, for a wide range of basic science and translational research projects, including those related to cancer, Immunobiology, autoimmune disease, and DNA repair. In 2014 I became Director of the Bioinformatics Shared Resource (BSR), the Larner College of Medicine’s bioinformatics core facility. In 2016, I became Director of the Vermont Integrative Genomics Resource (VIGR), which fused the BSR with the Advanced Genome Technologies Core (AGTC) to provide wrap around genomics services to investigators. As director of VIGR, my role is to expand and continually update the capacity of the core to create and support cutting-edge genomics-based research for the investigator community at UVM and regionally. Myself and my team assist investigators from the experimental design through to publication of their –omics data.
Areas of Expertise
Integration of data sets of different resolutions, Expression analysis, Systems biology, Basket studies, Machine learning