Professor Barrie Johnson

Emeritus Professor

  1. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    Influence of mobile genetic elements and insertion sequences in long- and short-term adaptive processes of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans strains

    Moya-Beltrán, A., Gajdosik, M., Rojas-Villalobos, C., Beard, S., Mandl, M., Silva-García, D., Johnson, D. B., Ramirez, P., Quatrini, R. & Kucera, J., 5 Jul 2023, In: Scientific Reports. 13, 1, 10876.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Insights into the pathways of iron- and sulfur-oxidation, and biofilm formation from the chemolithotrophic acidophile Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans CF27

    Talla, E., Hedrich, S., Mangenot, S., Ji, B. Y., Johnson, D. B., Barbe, V. & Bonnefoy, V., 19 Aug 2014, In: Research in Microbiology. 165, 9, p. 753-760

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Investigation of the microbial diversity of an extremely acidic, metal-rich water body (Lake Robule, Bor, Serbia)

    Johnson, D. B., Stanković, S., Morić, I., Pavić, A., Vasiljević, B., Johnson, B. D. & Cvetković, V., 30 Jan 2014, In: Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society. 79, 6, p. 729-741

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Iron Kinetics and Evolution of Microbial Populations in Low-pH, Ferrous Iron-Oxidizing Bioreactors

    Jones, R. M. & Johnson, D. B., 2 Aug 2016, In: Environmental Science and Technology. 50, 15, p. 8239-45 7 p.

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  6. Published

    Iron and carbon metabolism by a mineral-oxidizing Alicyclobacillus-like bacterium

    Yahya, A., Hallberg, K. B. & Johnson, D. B., 15 Nov 2007, In: Archives of Microbiology. 189, 4, p. 305-12 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Iron-mineral accretion from acid mine drainage and its application in passive treatment

    Florence, K., Sapsford, D. J., Johnson, D. B., Kay, C. & Wolkersdorfer, C., 2016, In: Environmental Technology. 37, 11, p. 1428-1440

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Isolation and characterisation of mineral-oxidizing “Acidibacillus” spp. from mine sites and geothermal environments in different global locations

    Holanda, R., Hedrich, S., Nancucheo, I., Oliveira, G., Grail, B. & Johnson, D., Sept 2016, In: Research in Microbiology. 167, 7, p. 613-623

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Isolation and characterization of Acidicaldus organivorus, gen. nov., sp nov.: a novel sulfur-oxidizing, ferric iron-reducing thermo-acidophilic heterotrophic Proteobacterium.

    Johnson, D. B., Stallwood, B., Kimura, S. & Hallberg, K. B., 1 Apr 2006, In: Archives of Microbiology. 185, 3, p. 212-221

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  10. Published

    Isolation and characterization of a novel acidophilic zero-valent sulfur- and ferric iron-respiring Firmicute

    Holanda, R. & Johnson, D. B., 18 Aug 2020, In: Research in Microbiology. 171, 7, p. 215-221

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  11. Published

    Isolation and phylogenetic characterisation of acidophilic microorganisms indigenous to acidic drainage wartes at an abandoned Norwegian copper mine

    Johnson, D. B., Rolfe, S., Hallberg, K. & Iversen, E., 1 Oct 2001, In: Environmental Microbiology. 3, 10, p. 630-637

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Macroscopic 'acid streamer' growths in acidic, metal-rich mine waters in north Wales consist of novel and remarkably simple bacterial communities

    Hallberg, K., Coupland, K., Kimura, S. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Mar 2006, In: Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72, 3, p. 2022-2030

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  13. Published

    Microbial Communities in Sediments in Acidic, Metal-Rich Mine Lakes: Results from a Study in South-West Spain

    Falagan Rodriguez, C., Sánchez-España, F. J., Yusta, I. & Johnson, D. B., Nov 2015, In: Advanced Materials Research. 1130, p. 7-10

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Microbial Diversity in Acidic Anaerobic Sediments at the Geothermal Caviahue-Copahue System, Argentina

    Willis, G., Hedrich, S., Ñancucheo, I., Johnson, D. B. & Donati, E. R., 1 Oct 2013, In: Advanced Materials Research. 825, p. 7-10

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  15. Published

    Microbial communities and geochemical dynamics in an extremely acidic, metal-rich stream at an abandoned sulfide mine (Huelva, Spain) underpinned by two functional primary production systems

    Rowe, O. F., Sanchez-Espana, J., Hallberg, K. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Jul 2007, In: Environmental Microbiology. 9, 7, p. 1761-1771

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  16. Published

    Microbial communities in a porphyry copper tailings impoundment and their impact on the geochemical dynamics of the mine waste

    Diaby, N., Dold, B., Pfeifer, H. R., Holliger, C., Johnson, D. B. & Hallberg, K. B., 1 Feb 2007, In: Environmental Microbiology. 9, 2, p. 298-307

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Microbial generation of sulfuric acid from granular elemental sulfur in laboratory-scale bioreactors

    Pakostova, E. & Johnson, D. B., Dec 2019, In: Hydrometallurgy. 190, 105152.

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  18. Published

    Microbial poulations in a 110 ton-scale column for the recovery of metals from black schist ores

    Hallberg, K. B., Johnson, D. B., Langwaldt, J. & Joulian, C., 1 Jan 2007, In: Advanced Materials Research. 20-21, p. 170

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Microbiological Communities in Two Acidic Mine Pit Lakes in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB), Spain

    Falagan, C., Sánchez-España, F. J. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Oct 2013, In: Advanced Materials Research. 825, p. 19-22

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Microbiological and Geochemical Dynamics in Simulated-Heap Leaching of a Polymetallic Sulfide Ore.

    Wakeman, K., Auvinen, H. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Nov 2008, In: Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 101, 4, p. 739-750

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Microbiology of a wetland ecosystem constructed to remediate mine drainage from a heavy metal mine.

    Hallberg, K. B. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Feb 2005, In: Science of the Total Environment. 338, 1-2, p. 53-66

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Microorganisms in subterranean acidic waters within Europe's deepest metal mine

    Kay, C. M., Haanela, A. & Johnson, D. B., 22 Jul 2014, In: Research in Microbiology. 165, 9, p. 705-712

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Mineralogy affects prokaryotic community composition in an acidic metal mine

    Kelly, L., Rivett, D. W., Pakostova, E., Creer, S., Cotterell, T. & Johnson, B., 1 Jan 2023, In: Microbiological Research. 266, 127257.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Mobilisation of metals in mineral tailings at the abandoned Sao Domingos copper mine (Portugal) by indigenous acidophilic bacteria.

    Bryan, C. G., Hallberg, K. B. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Sept 2006, In: Hydrometallurgy. 83, 1-4, p. 184-194

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  25. Published

    Molecular systematics of the genus Acidithiobacillus: insights into the phylogenetic structure and diversification of the taxon

    Nuñez, H., Moya-Beltrán, A., Covarrubias, P. C., Issotta, F., Cárdenas, J. P., González, M., Atavales, J., Acuña, L. G., Johnson, D. B. & Quatrini, R., 19 Jan 2017, In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 8, 30.

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  26. Published

    Multi Locus Sequence Typing scheme for Acidithiobacillus caldus strain evaluation and differentiation

    Nuñez, H., Loyola, D., Cárdenas, J. P., Holmes, D. S., Johnson, D. & Quantrini, R., Nov 2014, In: Research in Microbiology. 165, 9, p. 735-742

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  27. Published

    New Insights into Salt-Tolerance in Acidophilic Iron-Oxidising Bacteria

    Johnson, D. B., Grail, B. & Bonnefoy, V., Nov 2015, In: Advanced Materials Research. 1130, p. 3-6

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  28. Published

    New approaches for extracting and recovering metals from mine tailings

    Falagan Rodriguez, M. D. C., Grail, B. & Johnson, D., 15 May 2017, In: Minerals Engineering. 106, p. 71-78

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  29. Published

    New insights into the biogeochemistry of extremely acidic environments revealed by a combined cultivation-based and culture-independent study of two stratified pit lakes

    Falagan, C., Sánchez-España, J. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Jan 2014, In: Fems Microbiology Ecology. 87, 1, p. 231-243

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  30. Published

    New microbiological strategies that enable the selective recovery and recycling of metals from acid mine drainage and mine process waters

    Ňancucheo, I., Hedrich, S. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Nov 2012, In: Mineralogical Magazine. 76, 7, p. 2683-2692

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  31. Published

    Novel acidophiles isolated from moderately acidic mine drainage waters

    Hallberg, K. B. & Johnson, B., 1 Oct 2003, In: Hydrometallurgy. 71, 1-2, p. 139-148

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  32. Published

    Novel thermo-acidophilic bacteria isolated from geothermal sites in Yellowstone National Park: physiological and phylogenetic characteristics.

    Johnson, D. B., Okibe, N. & Roberto, F. F., 1 Jul 2003, In: Archives of Microbiology. 180, 1, p. 60-68

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  33. Published

    Oxidation of arsenite by Thiomonas strains and characterization of Thiomonas arsenivorans sp nov.

    Battaglia-Brunet, F., Joulian, C., Garrido, F., Dictor, M. C., Morin, D., Coupland, K., Johnson, D. B., Hallberg, K. B. & Baranger, P., 1 Jan 2006, In: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology. 89, 1, p. 99-108

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  34. Published

    Performance and key biogeochemical reactions in full-scale passive mine water treatment systems.

    Aplin, A. C., Fabian, D., Morrison, M. I., Younger, P. L., Hallberg, K. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Jul 2008, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 72, 12, p. A30

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  35. Published

    Production of Glycolic Acid by Chemolithotrophic Iron- and Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria and Its Role in Delineating and Sustaining Acidophilic Sulfide Mineral-Oxidizing Consortia.

    Nancucheo, I. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Jan 2010, In: Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76, 2, p. 461-467

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  36. Published

    Recent Developments in Microbiological Approaches for Securing Mine Wastes and for Recovering Metals from Mine Waters

    Johnson, D. B., 14 Apr 2014, In: Minerals. 4, 2, p. 279-292

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  37. Published

    Redox transformations of iron at extremely low pH: fundamental and applied aspects

    Johnson, D. B., Kanao, T. & Hedrich, S., 16 Mar 2012, In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 3, p. 96

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  38. Published

    Reduction and Complexation of Copper in a Novel Bioreduction System Developed to Recover Base Metals from Mine Process Waters

    Hedrich, S., du Plessis, C. A., Mora, N. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Oct 2013, In: Advanced Materials Research. 825, p. 483-486

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  39. Published

    Reduction of ferric iron by acidophilic heterotrophic bacteria: evidence for constitutive and inducible enzyme systems in Acidiphilium spp.

    Johnson, D. B. & Bridge, T. A., 1 Feb 2002, In: Journal of Applied Microbiology. 92, 2, p. 315-321

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  40. Published

    Reductive Dissolution of a Lateritic Ore Containing Rare Earth Elements (REE) Using Acidithiobacillus Species

    Nancucheo, I., Johnson, D. B., Lopes, M. & Oliveira, G., Aug 2017, In: Solid State Phenomena. 262, p. 299-302

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  41. Published

    Reductive bioprocessing of cobalt-bearing limonitic laterites

    Smith, S., Grail, B. & Johnson, D., 15 May 2017, In: Minerals Engineering. 106, p. 86-90

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  42. Published

    Reductive dissolution of ferric iron minerals by Acidiphilium SJH.

    Bridge, T. A. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Jul 2000, In: Geomicrobiology Journal. 17, 3, p. 193-206

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  43. Published

    Reductive dissolution of minerals and selective recovery of metals using acidophilic iron- and sulfate-reducing acidophiles

    Johnson, D. B., 1 Oct 2012, In: Hydrometallurgy. 127-128, p. 172-177

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  44. Published

    Remediation and selective recovery of metals from acidic mine waters using novel modular bioreactors

    Hedrich, S. & Johnson, D. B., 24 Sept 2014, In: Environmental Science and Technology. 48, 20, p. 12206–12212

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  45. Published

    Remediation of acidic waste waters using immobilised, acidophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria.

    Kolmert, A. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Aug 2001, In: Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology. 76, 8, p. 836-843

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  46. Published

    Removal of Zinc From Circum-Neutral pH Mine-Impacted Waters Using a Novel “Hybrid” Low pH Sulfidogenic Bioreactor

    Holanda, R. & Johnson, D. B., 10 Mar 2020, In: Frontiers in Environmental Science. 8, 22.

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  47. Published

    Removal of sulfate from extremely acidic mine waters using low pH sulfidogenic bioreactors

    Nancucheo, I. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Dec 2014, In: Hydrometallurgy. 150, p. 222-226

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  48. Published

    Salt Stress-Induced Loss of Iron Oxidoreduction Activities and Reacquisition of That Phenotype Depend on rus Operon Transcription in Acidithiobacillus ferridurans

    Bonnefoy, V., Grail, B. M. & Johnson, D. B., Apr 2018, In: Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84, 7

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  49. Published

    Selective Chemical and Biological Metal Recovery from Cu-Rich Bioleaching Solutions

    Hedrich, S., Kermer, R., Aubel, T., Martin, M., Schippers, A., Johnson, D. B. & Janneck, E., Aug 2017, In: Solid State Phenomena. 262, p. 107-112

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  50. Published

    Selective Metal Removal from Scandinavian Mine Waters Using Novel Biomineralization Technologies

    Kay, C. M., Hedrich, S. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Oct 2013, In: Advanced Materials Research. 825, p. 479-482

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  51. Published

    Selective removal of transition metals from acidic mine waters by novel consortia of acidophilic sulfidogenic bacteria

    Ňancucheo, I. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Jan 2012, In: Microbial Biotechnology. 5, 1, p. 34-44

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