Adjunct Faculty
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Adjunct rank detailsJoseph N Paulson, PhD
Assistant Professor AdjunctAbout
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Featured Publications
Differential richness inference for 16S rRNA marker gene surveys
Kumar M, Slud E, Hehnly C, Zhang L, Broach J, Irizarry R, Schiff S, Paulson J. Differential richness inference for 16S rRNA marker gene surveys. Genome Biology 2022, 23: 166. PMID: 35915508, PMCID: PMC9344657, DOI: 10.1186/s13059-022-02722-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPaenibacillus infection with frequent viral coinfection contributes to postinfectious hydrocephalus in Ugandan infants
Paulson J, Williams B, Hehnly C, Mishra N, Sinnar S, Zhang L, Ssentongo P, Mbabazi-Kabachelor E, Wijetunge D, von Bredow B, Mulondo R, Kiwanuka J, Bajunirwe F, Bazira J, Bebell L, Burgoine K, Couto-Rodriguez M, Ericson J, Erickson T, Ferrari M, Gladstone M, Guo C, Haran M, Hornig M, Isaacs A, Kaaya B, Kangere S, Kulkarni A, Kumbakumba E, Li X, Limbrick D, Magombe J, Morton S, Mugamba J, Ng J, Olupot-Olupot P, Onen J, Peterson M, Roy F, Sheldon K, Townsend R, Weeks A, Whalen A, Quackenbush J, Ssenyonga P, Galperin M, Almeida M, Atkins H, Warf B, Lipkin W, Broach J, Schiff S. Paenibacillus infection with frequent viral coinfection contributes to postinfectious hydrocephalus in Ugandan infants. Science Translational Medicine 2020, 12: eaba0565. PMID: 32998967, PMCID: PMC7774825, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aba0565.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDifferential abundance analysis for microbial marker-gene surveys
Paulson J, Stine O, Bravo H, Pop M. Differential abundance analysis for microbial marker-gene surveys. Nature Methods 2013, 10: 1200-1202. PMID: 24076764, PMCID: PMC4010126, DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2658.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2026
A unified framework for pre-screening and screening tools in oncology clinical trials
Horgan D, Paulson J, Loaiza-Bonilla A, Svedman C, Malapelle U, Penault-Llorca F, Rahsheed H, Hofman P, Kachnowski S, Schneider D, Subbiah V. A unified framework for pre-screening and screening tools in oncology clinical trials. Npj Precision Oncology 2026, 10: 143. PMID: 41611789, PMCID: PMC13056990, DOI: 10.1038/s41698-026-01306-3.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus Statements
2025
Poor surgical outcomes following Paenibacillus infant infectious hydrocephalus
Ericson J, Natukwatsa D, Ssenyonga P, Onen J, Mugamba J, Mulondo R, Morton S, Movassagh M, Templeton K, Hehnly C, Mbabazi-Kabachelor E, Kulkarni A, Warf B, Broach J, Paulson J, Schiff S. Poor surgical outcomes following Paenibacillus infant infectious hydrocephalus. Journal Of Neurosurgery Pediatrics 2025, 36: 145-156. PMID: 40378477, PMCID: PMC12211056, DOI: 10.3171/2025.1.peds24254.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2024
Lubricating gel influence on vaginal microbiome sampling
Amitai Komem D, Hadar R, Paulson J, Mordechai Y, Eskandarian H, Efroni G, Amir A, Haberman Y, Tsur A. Lubricating gel influence on vaginal microbiome sampling. Scientific Reports 2024, 14: 18223. PMID: 39107405, PMCID: PMC11303677, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-68948-w.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchbacLIFE: a user-friendly computational workflow for genome analysis and prediction of lifestyle-associated genes in bacteria
Guerrero-Egido G, Pintado A, Bretscher K, Arias-Giraldo L, Paulson J, Spaink H, Claessen D, Ramos C, Cazorla F, Medema M, Raaijmakers J, Carrión V. bacLIFE: a user-friendly computational workflow for genome analysis and prediction of lifestyle-associated genes in bacteria. Nature Communications 2024, 15: 2072. PMID: 38453959, PMCID: PMC10920822, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46302-y.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPrediction of Benefit From Adjuvant Pertuzumab by 80-Gene Signature in the APHINITY (BIG 4-11) Trial
Krop I, Mittempergher L, Paulson J, Andre F, Bonnefoi H, Loi S, Loibl S, Gelber R, Caballero C, Bhaskaran R, Dreezen C, Menicucci A, Bernards R, van ’t Veer L, Piccart M. Prediction of Benefit From Adjuvant Pertuzumab by 80-Gene Signature in the APHINITY (BIG 4-11) Trial. JCO Precision Oncology 2024, 8: e2200667. PMID: 38237097, DOI: 10.1200/po.22.00667.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
Transcriptional immunogenomic analysis reveals distinct immunological clusters in paediatric nervous system tumours
Nabbi A, Beck P, Delaidelli A, Oldridge D, Sudhaman S, Zhu K, Yang S, Mulder D, Bruce J, Paulson J, Raman P, Zhu Y, Resnick A, Sorensen P, Sill M, Brabetz S, Lambo S, Malkin D, Johann P, Kool M, Jones D, Pfister S, Jäger N, Pugh T. Transcriptional immunogenomic analysis reveals distinct immunological clusters in paediatric nervous system tumours. Genome Medicine 2023, 15: 67. PMID: 37679810, PMCID: PMC10486055, DOI: 10.1186/s13073-023-01219-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchmbQTL: an R/Bioconductor package for microbial quantitative trait loci (QTL) estimation
Movassagh M, Schiff S, Paulson J. mbQTL: an R/Bioconductor package for microbial quantitative trait loci (QTL) estimation. Bioinformatics 2023, 39: btad565. PMID: 37707523, PMCID: PMC10516520, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btad565.Peer-Reviewed Original Research