1. John Roger Speakman was born on 1958 and is a British biologist working at the University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, for which he was Director from 2007 to 2011.
10 Facts About John Speakman
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John Speakman leads the University's Energetics Research Group, which uses doubly labeled water to investigate energy expenditure and balance in animals.
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John Speakman was awarded Doctor of Science degrees by both the University of Aberdeen in 1996 and University of Stirling in 2009.
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John Speakman's work focuses on the causes and consequences of variation in energy balance, and in particular the factors that limit expenditure, the genetic and environmental drivers of obesity and the energetic contribution to ageing.
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John Speakman is an internationally recognised expert in the use of isotope methodologies to measure energy demands and has used these methods on a wide range of wild animals, model species and humans.
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John Speakman's group was the first to link genetic variation to differences in food consumption in humans by examining polymorphic variation in the fat mass and obesity associated FTO gene.
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John Speakman writes a monthly popular science column for the magazine 'Newton' and has published three popular science books consisting of the compiled English versions of these articles.
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John Speakman's peer reviewed publications can be found at Google Scholar, Europe PubMed Central, Scopus, The University of Aberdeen, ResearchGate, and academia.
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John Speakman was co-author with Patrick Butler, Anne Brown and George Stevenson of the textbook Animal Physiology published by Oxford University Press in 2020.
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John Speakman is one of only 28 scientists in the world to be simultaneously a fellow of the UK, US and Chinese National academies.