John Dawson, Ph.D.

Education

BS in Mathematics from the University of Iowa (2005); PhD in Statistics with emphasis in Biostatistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2012); Post-doctoral traineeship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (2014)

Courses

NS 5311 (Biostatistics)
NS 5330 - Introduction to Nutritional Sciences Research

Publications

• Dawson JA, Ye S and Kendziorski C. R/EBcoexpress: An empirical Bayesian framework for discovering differential co-expression. Bioinformatics (2012); vol. 28, no. 14, pp. 1939-40. 
• Dawson JA, Dhurandhar EJ, Vasquez AI, Peng B and Allison DB. Propagation of Obesity Across Generations: The Roles of Differential Realized Fertility and Assortative Mating by Body Mass Index. Human Heredity (2013) 25 (2-4), pp. 204-12. [PMC4010105]
• Dhurandhar EJ, Dawson JA, Alcorn A, Hingstrup L, Thomas E, Cardel M, Bourland A, Travers A, Astrup A, St-Onge M-P, Hill JO, Apovian C, Shikany J, Allison DB. The Effectiveness of Breakfast Recommendations on Weight Loss: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Am J Clin Nutr (2014) August, ajcn.089573. [PMC4095657]
• Casazza K, Brown AW, Astrup A, Bertz F, Baum C, Bohan Brown M, Dawson JA, Durant N, Dutton G, Fields DA, Fontaine KR, Levitsky D, Mehta T, Menachemi N, Newby P, Pate R, Raynor H, Rolls BJ, Sen B, Smith Jr. DL, Thomas D, Wansink B, Allison DB and Heymsfield S. Weighing the Evidence of Common Beliefs in Obesity Research. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr (2014) 20:0 June, DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2014.922044. [PMC4272668]
• Christopherson MR, Dawson JA, Stevenson D, Cunningham A, Bramhacharya S, Weimer PJ, Kendziorski C and Suen G. Unique aspects of fiber degradation by the ruminal ethanologen Ruminococcus albus 7 revealed by physiological and transcriptomic analysis. BMC Genomics (2014) Dec 4; 15: 1066. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-1066. [PMC4300822]