Professor James Prosser

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
2024 - Published
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
2024 - Published
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
2022 - Published
Prosser, J.
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 4973-4980
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Chronic environmental perturbation influences microbial community assembly patterns
2022 - Published
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
2022 - Published
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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