Emeritus Professor
- About
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- Email Address
- j.prosser@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
External Memberships
The Microbiology Society
The Society for Applied Microbiology (Honorary Membership)
The American Society for Microbiology
The American Academy of Microbiology
The International Society for Microbial Ecology
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Biology
The Royal Society
Latest Publications
Nitrosotalea devaniterrae gen. nov., sp. nov., and Nitrosotalea sinensis sp. nov., two acidophilic ammonia oxidising archaea isolated from acidic soil, and proposal of the new order Nitrosotaleales ord. nov. within the class Nitrososphaeria of the phylum Nitrososphaerota
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, vol. 74, no. 9Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNiche breadth specialisation impacts ecological and evolutionary adaptation following environmental change
The ISME Journal, wrae183Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHow and why in microbial ecology: an appeal for scientific aims, questions, hypotheses and theories
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 4973-4980Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesChronic environmental perturbation influences microbial community assembly patterns
Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 2300-2311Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRevisiting plant biological nitrification inhibition efficiency using multiple archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidising cultures
Biology and Fertility of Soils, vol. 58, pp. 241-249Contributions to Journals: Articles
Prizes and Awards
1994 Election as Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
2005 Election as Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
2007 Francis Clark Distinguished Lecture in Soil Biology, Soil Science Society of America
2010 Russell Lecture, Rothamsted Experimental Station
2011-13 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow
2012 Election as Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
2013 OBE for Services to Environmental Science
2013 Visiting Fellow, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
2013 Honorary Membership of the Society for Applied Microbiology
2014 Society for Applied Microbiology Environmental Microbiology Lecture
2016 Election as Fellow of the Royal Society
2017 Honorary Life Membership of the Society for Applied Microbiology
2017 Honorary Degree Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Ljubljana
2018 West Riding Lecture in Microbiology, University of Sheffield
2018 Dean’s Lecture in Agriculture, University of Melbourne
2019 Chuck and Sue Rice International Agronomy Lecture, Kansas State University
2019 Chinese Academy of Sciences Distinguished International Professor
2019 Marine Environmental Science, Zhengzhong Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, University of Xiamen
- Publications
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Molecular analysis of methanogenic archaeal communities in managed and natural upland pasture soils
Global Change Biology, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 1451-1457Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00673.x
A model for bacterial conjugal gene transfer on solid surfaces
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 67-78Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCommunity structure of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria within anoxic marine sediments
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 1359-1371Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.69.3.1359-1371.2003
The impact of grassland management on archaeal community structure in upland pasture rhizosphere soil
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 152-162Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00399.x
Effect of anoxia and high sulphide concentrations on heterotrophic microbial communities in reduced surface sediments (black spots) in sandy intertidal flats of the German Wadden Sea.
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 44, pp. 291-301Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-6496(03)00076-X
Potential bias of fungal 18S rDNA and internal transcribed spacer polymerase chain reaction primers for estimating fungal biodiversity in soil
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 36-47Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00383.x
Spatial analysis of archaeal community structure in grassland soil
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 69, no. 12, pp. 7420-7429Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.69.12.7420-7429.2003
The diversity of bacteria associated with natural aphid populations.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 69, pp. 7216-7223Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.69.12.7216-7223.2003
Cultivation-based and molecular approaches to characterisation of terrestrial and aquatic nitrifiers
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek , vol. 81, no. 1-4, pp. 165-179Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020598114104
Grassland management regimens reduce small-scale heterogeneity and species diversity of beta-proteobacterial ammonia pxidizer populations
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 20-30Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.68.1.20-30.2002
Identification of active methylotroph populations in an acidic forest soil by stable-isotope probing
Microbiology , vol. 148, no. Pt 8, pp. 2331-2342Contributions to Journals: ArticlesImpact of protozoan grazing on bacterial community structure in soil microcosms
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 6094-6105Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.68.12.6094-6105.2002
Impacts of soil faunal community composition on model grassland ecosystems
Science, vol. 298, no. 5593, pp. 615-618Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1075805
Molecular analysis of a bacterial chitinolytic community in an upland pasture
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 68, no. 10, pp. 5042-5050Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.68.10.5042-5050.2002
Molecular and functional diversity in soil microorganisms.
Plant and Soil, vol. 244, pp. 9-17Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020208100281
The influence of selection pressures on species diversity, functional gene diversity and activity of ammonia oxidising bacteria
Genes in the Environment: 15th Special Symposium of the British Ecological Society. Hails, R., Beringer, J., Godfray, H. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 187-202Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2277/0521549345
The potential for anaerobic mineralisation of hydrocarbon constituents of oily drill cuttings from the North Sea seabed
Journal of Environmental Monitoring, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 553-557Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/b203991p
The ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase gene cluster of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath).
Archives of Microbiology, vol. 177, pp. 279-289Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-001-0387-x
Characterisation of bacterial communities associated with toxic and non-toxic dinoflagellates: Alexandrium spp. and Scrippsiella trochoidea
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 161-173Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2001.tb00864.x
Numerical analysis of grassland bacterial community structure under different land management regimens by using 16S ribosomal DNA sequence data and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis banding patterns
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 67, no. 10, pp. 4554-4559Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.67.10.4554-4559.2001
Autotrophic ammonia oxidation at low pH through urea hydrolysis
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 2952-2957Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.67.7.2952-2957.2001
Detection of Escherichia coli O157: H7 in soil and water using multiplex PCR
Journal of Applied Microbiology, vol. 91, pp. 1004-1010Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2672.2001.01465.x
Impact of cultivation on characterisation of species composition of soil bacterial communities
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 220, no. 1, pp. 37-48Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2001.tb00786.x
Species Diversity of Uncultured and Cultured Populations of Soil and Marine Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria
Microbial Ecology, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 228-237Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-001-0016-x
Luminescence-based microbial marker systems and their application in microbial ecology
Tracking Genetically Engineered Microorganisms: Biotechnology Intelligence Unit 2. Jansson, J., van Elsas, J., Bailey, M. (eds.). Landes Bioscience, pp. 69-85Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters