Professor Barrie Johnson

Emeritus Professor

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

    Significance of Microbial Communities and Interactions in Safeguarding Reactive Mine Tailings by Ecological Engineering

    Ňancucheo, I. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Dec 2011, In: Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 77, 23, p. 8201-8208

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Solid and liquid media for isolating and cultivating acidophilic and acid-tolerant sulfate-reducing bacteria

    Nancucheo, I., Rowe, O. F., Hedrich, S. & Johnson, D., 1 May 2016, In: FEMS Microbiology Letters. 363, p. fnw083

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Sulfate Removal from Extremely Acidic Wastewaters Using Consortia of Acidophilic Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

    Ñancucheo, I. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Oct 2013, In: Advanced Materials Research. 825, p. 487-490

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Sulfidogenesis and selective precipitation of metals at low pH mediated by Acidithiobacillus spp. and acidophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria

    Jameson, E., Rowe, O. F., Hallberg, K. B. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Oct 2010, In: Hydrometallurgy. 104, 3-4, p. 488-493

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Sulfidogenesis in low pH (3.8-4.2) media by a mixed population of acidophilic bacteria

    Kimura, S., Hallberg, K. B. & Johnson, B., 1 Mar 2006, In: Biodegradation. 17, 2, p. 159-167

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Sulfobacillus benefaciens sp nov., an acidophilic facultative anaerobic Firmicute isolated from mineral bioleaching operations.

    Johnson, D. B., Joulian, C., d'Hughes, P. & Hallberg, K. B., 1 Nov 2008, In: Extremophiles. 12, 6, p. 789-798

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Sulfur-enhanced reductive bioprocessing of cobalt-bearing materials for base metals recovery

    Araujo Santos, A. L., Dybowska, A., Schofield, P., Herrington, R. & Johnson, B., 1 Aug 2020, In: Hydrometallurgy. 195, 105396.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    The BIOMOre Project – A New Mining Concept for Extracting Metals from Deep Ore Deposits Using Biotechnology

    Fillipov, L., Izart, C., Hejny, H., Hirsch, K., Johnson, B., Kahnt, R., Marten, H. & Slabbert, W., Oct 2017, In: Mining Report. 153, 5, p. 436-445

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    The Bioshale project: search for a sustainable way of exploiting black shale ores using biotechnology

    d'Hughes, P., Grotowski, A., Luszczkiewicz, A., Sadawski, Z., Farbiszewska, T., Sklodowska, A., Loukola-Riskeeniemi, K., Langwaldt, J., Palma, J., Norris, P., Glombitza, F., Groudev, S., Pasava, J. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Jan 2007, In: Advanced Materials Research. 20-21, p. 42-45

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  11. Published

    The Evolution, Current Status, and Future Prospects of Using Biotechnologies in the Mineral Extraction and Metal Recovery Sectors

    Johnson, D. B., 8 Aug 2018, In: Minerals. 8, 8, 343.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    The Use of Algal Biomass to Sustain Sulfidogenic Bioreactors for Remediating Acidic Metal-Rich Waste Waters

    Santos, A. L. & Johnson, D. B., 2017, In: Solid State Phenomena. 262, p. 577-581

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    The effects of temperature and pH on the kinetics of an acidophilic sulfidogenic bioreactor and indigenous microbial communities

    Santos, A. L. & Johnson, D. B., Mar 2017, In: Hydrometallurgy. 168, p. 116-120

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  14. Published

    The microbiology of acidic mine waters.

    Johnson, D. B. & Hallberg, K., 1 Sept 2003, In: Research in Microbiology. 154, 7, p. 466-473

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  15. Published

    The microbiology of biomining: development and optimization of mineral-oxidizing microbial consortia.

    Rawlings, D. E. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Feb 2007, In: Microbiology - SGM. 153, 2, p. 315-324

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  16. Published

    The significance of pH in dictating the relative toxicities of chloride and copper to acidophilic bacteria

    Falagan, C. & Johnson, D. B., Dec 2018, In: Research in Microbiology. 169, 10, p. 552-557

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Toxicity of flotation reagents to moderately thermophilic bioleaching microorganisms

    Okibe, N. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Dec 2002, In: Biotechnology Letters. 24, 23, p. 2011-2016

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Uncovering a microbial enigma: isolation and characterization of the streamer-generating, iron-oxidizing acidophilic bacteriam, "Ferrovum myxofaciens"

    Johnson, D. B., Hallberg, K. B., Hedrich, S. & Hedrich, S. (ed.), Jan 2014, In: Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80, 2, p. 672-680

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Upconversion of Cellulosic Waste Into a Potential “Drop in Fuel” via Novel Catalyst Generated Using Desulfovibrio desulfuricans and a Consortium of Acidophilic Sulfidogens

    Mikheenko, I. P., Gomez-Bolivar, J., Merroun, M. L., Macaskie, L. E., Sharma, S., Walker, M., Hand, R. A., Grail, B., Johnson, D. B. & Orozco, R. L., 10 May 2019, In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 10, 970.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  20. Published

    You have free access to this content Biodiversity, metabolism and applications of acidophilic sulfur-metabolizing microorganisms

    Dopson, M. & Johnson, D. B., 1 Oct 2012, In: Environmental Microbiology. 14, 10, p. 2620-2631

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  21. Meeting Abstract › Research › Peer-reviewed
  22. Published

    Deconstructing and reconstructing microbial communities that promote the natural attenuation of acidic mine waters

    Johnson, B., 2 Apr 2017, In: Abstracts of papers - American Chemical Society. 253

    Research output: Contribution to journalMeeting Abstractpeer-review

  23. Published

    Novel approaches for the selective capture of transition metals from mine waters using low pH sulfur- and sulfate-reducing bioreactors

    Holanda, R., Santos, A. & Johnson, D. B., 2 Apr 2017, In: Abstracts of papers - American Chemical Society. 253

    Research output: Contribution to journalMeeting Abstractpeer-review

  24. Chapter › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  25. Published

    Biodiversity of acidophilic moderate thermophiles isolated from two sites in Yellowstone National Park, and their roles in the dissimilatory oxido-reduction of iron.

    Johnson, D. B., Body, D. A., Bridge, T. A., Bruhn, D. F., Roberto, F. F., Reysenbach, A. L. (ed.), Voytek, M. (ed.) & Mancinelli, R. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Thermophiles: Biodiversity: Ecology and Evolution. 2001 ed. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, p. 23-39

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  26. Published

    Bioleaching of pyrite by defined mixed cultures of moderately thermophilic acidophiles.

    Okibe, N., Johnson, D. B., Ciminelli, V. S. (ed.) & Garcia Jr, O. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Biohydrometallurgy: Fundamentals: Technology and Sustainable Development. 2001 ed. Elsevier, p. 443-451

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  27. Published

    Biological versus abiotic oxidation of iron in acid mine drainage waters: an important role for moderately acidophilic, iron-oxidising bacteria.

    Dennison, F., Johnson, D. B., Sen, A. M., Hallberg, K. B., Ciminelli, V. S. (ed.) & Garcia Jr, O. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Biohydrometallurgy: Fundamentals: Technology and Sustainable Development. 2001 ed. Elsevier, p. 493-501

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  28. Published

    Demonstration of sulfide production by mixed populations of bacteria in low pH bioreactors

    Rowe, O. F., Kimura, S., Hallberg, K. B., Johnson, D. B., Harrison, S. T. (ed.), Rawlings, D. E. (ed.) & Petersen, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2005, The 16th International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium: Book of Abstracts. 2005 ed. 16th International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium, p. 257-259

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  29. Published

    Genus II. Leptospirillum

    Johnson, D. B., Boone, D. R. (ed.) & Castenholtz, R. W. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria v. 1. 2001 ed. Springer, p. 453-457

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  30. Published

    Isolation, enumeration, growth, and preservation of acidophilic prokaryotes.

    Hallberg, K. B., Johnson, D. B., Hurst, C. J. (ed.), Crawford, R. L. (ed.), Garland, J. L. (ed.), Lipson, D. A. (ed.), Mills, A. L. (ed.) & Stetzenbach, L. D. (ed.), 1 Jan 2007, Manual of Environmental Microbiology: 3rd Edition. 2007 ed. American Society for Microbiology, p. 1155-1165

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  31. Published

    Partial characterisation of a colored organic metabolite isolated from cultures of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans grown on elemental sulfur.

    Ceskova, P., Zak, Z., Havlis, J., Johnson, D. B., Janiczek, O., Mandl, M., Ciminelli, V. S. (ed.) & Garcia Jr, O. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Biohydrometallurgy: Fundamentals: Technology and Sustainable Development. 2001 ed. Elsevier, p. 363-367

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  32. Published

    Passive mine water treatment at the former Wheal Jane tin mine, Cornwall: important biogeochemical and microbiological lessons

    Hallberg, K. B., Johnson, D. B. & Nuttall, C. A. (ed.), 1 Jan 2002, Mine Water Treatment: a Decade of Progress. 2002 ed. HERO, p. 143-151

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  33. Published

    Passive treatment of acidic mine waters in subsurface-flow systems: exploring RAPS and permeable reactive barriers

    Younger, P. L., Jayaweera, A., Elliot, A., Wood, R., Amos, P., Daugherty, A., Martin, A., Bowden, L., Aplin, A., Johnson, D. B. & Nuttall, C. A. (ed.), 1 Jan 2002, Mine Water Treatment: a Decade of Progress. 2002 ed. HERO, p. 40-50

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  34. Published

    Physiology and ecology of acidophilic microorganisms.

    Johnson, D. B., Gerday, C. (ed.) & Glansdorff, N. (ed.), 1 Jan 2007, Physiology and Biochemistry of Extremophiles. 2007 ed. American Society for Microbiology, p. 257-270

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  35. Published

    Role of pure and mixed cultures of gram-positive eubacteria in mineral leaching.

    Johnson, D. B., Bacelar-Nicolau, P., Okibe, N., Yahya, A., Hallberg, K. B., Ciminelli, V. S. (ed.) & Garcia Jr, O. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Biohydrometallurgy: Fundamentals: Technology and Sustainable Development. 2001 ed. Elsevier, p. 461-470

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  36. Published

    Techniques for detecting and identifying acidophilic mineral-oxidising microorganisms.

    Johnson, D. B., Hallberg, K. B., Rawlings, D. E. (ed.) & Johnson, D. B. (ed.), 1 Jan 2007, Biomining. 2007 ed. Springer Verlag, p. 237-262

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  37. Published

    The Microbiology of Extremely Acidic Environment

    Johnson, D. B. & Aguilera, A., May 2016, Manual of Environmental Microbiology. Yates, M. V., Nakatsu, C. H., Miller, R. V. & Pillai, S. D. (eds.). 4th ed.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  38. Published

    The effects of pesticides on soil microflora.

    Jones, S. E., Johnson, D. B., Young, J. E. (ed.), Griffin, M. N. (ed.), Alford, D. V. (ed.) & Oglivy, S. E. (ed.), 1 Jan 2002, Reducing Agrochemical Use on the Arable Farm: The Talisman and Scarab Projects.. 2002 ed. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, p. 255-276

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  39. Published

    The geochemistry of acid mine drainage

    Blowes, D. W., Ptacek, C. J., Jamboor, J. L., Weisner, C. G., Paktunc, D., Gould, W. D. & Johnson, D., 8 Nov 2013, Treatise on Geochemistry . Holland, H. D. & Turekian, K. K. (eds.). 2nd ed. Elsevier Science, Vol. 11. p. 131-190

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  40. Chapter › Research › Peer-reviewed
  41. Published

    Acidophile microbiology in space and time

    Johnson, D. B. & Quatrini, R., 2016, Acidophiles: Life in Extremely Acidic Environments. Johnson, D. B. & Quatrini, R. (eds.). Caister Academic Press Limited, p. 3-16

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  42. Published

    Biological removal of sulfurous compounds and metals from inorganic wastewaters

    Johnson, B. & Santos, A. L., Oct 2020, Environmental Technologies to Treat Sulfur Pollution: Principles and Engineering. Lens, P. N. L. (ed.). 2nd ed. IWA Publishing, p. 215-246

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  43. Published

    Microbial communities and interactions in low pH environments

    Johnson, D. B., 2016, Acidophiles: Life in Extremely Acidic Environments. Quatrini, R. & Johnson, D. B. (eds.). Caister Academic Press Limited, p. 121-138

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  44. Published

    Sulfidogenesis at low pH by acidophilic bacteria and its potential for the selective recovery of transition metals from mine waters

    Johnson, D. B., Jameson, E., Rowe, O. F., Wakeman, K. & Hallberg, K. B., 24 Sept 2009, Biohydrometallurgy: a meeting point between microbial ecology,metal recovery processes and environmental remediation. Trans Tech Publications, Vol. 71-73. p. 693-696 (Advanced Materials Research).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  45. Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › Research › Peer-reviewed
  46. Published

    Extremophiles and Acidic Environments

    Johnson, D. B. & Aguilera, A., 2019, Encyclopedia of Microbiology . 4tk ed. p. 206-227

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingEntry for encyclopedia/dictionarypeer-review

  47. Conference contribution › Research › Peer-reviewed
  48. Published

    Biologically-induced precipitation of aluminium in synthetic acid mine water

    Falagan Rodriguez, C., Johnson, D. B., Sanchez-Espana, J. & Yusta, I., Jun 2016, Biohydromet 2016 Proceedings.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  49. Published

    Developing Sustainable Biotechnologies for Mine Water Treatment in the 21st Century

    Johnson, B., Santos, A. L., Falagan, C., Jones, R. M., Grail, B. M., Holanda, R. & Hedrich, S., Jul 2016, Procddings IMWA 2016. p. 782-789

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  50. Published

    In situ bioleaching: an alternative approach of metal extraction from deep-buried sulfide ores

    Pakostova, E., Grail, B. & Johnson, D. B., Jun 2016, Biohydromet 2016 Proceedings.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  51. Published

    Microbial communities in passive remediation systems at three abandoned coal mine sites in the United Kingdom

    Falagan Rodriguez, C., Smail, I., Grail, B. & Johnson, D. B., Jul 2016, Proceedings IMWA 2016 . p. 796-803

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  52. Published

    New approaches for recovering metals from mine wastes

    Falagan Rodriguez, C., Grail, B. & Johnson, D. B., Jun 2016, Biohydromet 2016 Proceedings.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  53. Published

    New insights into the microbiology of meromictic acidic pit lakes in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Spain)

    Falagan Rodriguez, C., Sanchez-Espana, J., Yusta, I. & Johnson, D. B., Jul 2016, Proceedings IMWA 2016. p. 192-198

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  54. Published

    Oxidative and reductive bioprocessing of cobalt bearing ores, and recovery of cobalt minerals via biosulfidogenesis

    Smith, S., Grail, B. & Johnson, D. B., Jun 2016, Biohydromet 2016 Proceedings.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  55. Published

    Remediation of acidic metal-rich waste waters using sulfidogenic bioreactor sustained by algal biomass

    Santos, A. L. & Johnson, D. B., Jun 2016, Biohydromet 2016 Proceedings.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  56. Published

    The development and future impact on biotechnologies for mineral processing and metal recovery

    Johnson, B., Aug 2019, Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits. p. 1516-1619

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review