Julie Jung is currently an Assistant Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at Weber State University in Ogden, UT.
Previously as a postdoc at the University of Utah (Werner Lab), Julie spent her days pushing around small sterile volumes of liquid and studying plasticity in several systems, which gave her a chance to do something new pretty much every day. Before that, Julie spent her Ph.D. (Warkentin Lab, Boston University) chasing frogs conducting fieldwork at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Gamboa, Panama where she examined vibration-cued early hatching behavior (plasticity!) in Agalychnis callidryas (red-eyed treefrogs). Julie’s time as a tropical ecologist at STRI living among the caimans, bullet ants, and potoos really confirmed that working outdoors in sweaty, soggy, buggy, humid, normally deplorable conditions makes her really happy. To learn more about Julie’s current and past projects, please visit this site’s Research page or her CV.
Julie is a 1st generation college graduate and a 1st generation US citizen. She credits everything good in her life to her loving parents, who rededicated and rearranged their entire lives to facilitate the success of their children.
Outside of lab, Julie loves doing typical Utah things like ski mountaineering, ice climbing, and rock scrambling. She also quite enjoys SCUBA diving, biking, doodling, and going on very slow hikes trying to identify all the creatures. Her dream is that someday she can think of a way to incorporate some of these extreme hobbies into a grant proposal to collect and study (non-human) extremophiles from some of her favorite places. If you’re in need of a graphic designer or an outdoorsing partner, here’s how to contact her:
jungjulie2 [at] gmail.comjulie.jung [at] utah.edu@drjuliejung@jung.jules@julie.s.cribbles@drjuliejung@julie_jung@julie-jungJulie has been sporadically blogging about random things tangentially related to academia. It started out purely as a way to share some useful tips and tricks in R, but has metamorphosed into a random mishmash of feelings and announcements. Enjoy!