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Professor James Prosser

Professor James Prosser
Professor James Prosser
Professor James Prosser

Emeritus Professor

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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

  • Niche breadth specialisation impacts ecological and evolutionary adaptation following environmental change

    Gubry-Rangin, C., Aigle, A., Herrera Alsina, L., Lancaster, L., Prosser, J.
    The ISME Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, wrae183
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  • 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

    Lehtovirta-Morley, L. E., Ge, C., Ross, J., Yao, H., Hazard, C., Gubry-Rangin, C., Prosser, J., Nicol, G.
    International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, vol. 74, no. 9
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  • How and why in microbial ecology: an appeal for scientific aims, questions, hypotheses and theories

    Prosser, J.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 4973-4980
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  • Chronic environmental perturbation influences microbial community assembly patterns

    Potts, L. D., Douglas, A., Perez Calderon, L. J., Witte, U., Prosser, J., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 2300-2311
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  • Revisiting plant biological nitrification inhibition efficiency using multiple archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidising cultures

    Bhambra, J. K., Wardak, D. L. R., Prosser, J. I., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    Biology and Fertility of Soils, vol. 58, pp. 241-249
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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

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