Johnston J., 3D Printed Drinking Water Treatment Facility for Engineers at Small Private Liberal Arts College. ASEE Conference Paper. 2026
Lai D., Mosier D., Palmer M., Mayali X., Johnston J., Saldivar W., Covington J., Jiao J., Colman D., Seymour C., Boyd E., Liu L., Hua Z., Li W., Weber P., Pett-Ridge J., Nunoura T., Dodsworth J., Hedlund B. Branched-Chain amino acid specialization drove diversification within Calditenuaceae (Caldarchaeia) and enables their cultivation. Nature Communications. 2026.
Sinnott-Armstrong N., Forsythe D., Benoit J., Chappell C., Coe L., Francesco Rodrigues De Oliveira B., Evans N., Farge A., Gillian J., Hamilton M., Moran Henneberry C., Ishaq S., Johnston J., Krichilsky E., Alcira Lopez J., McMonigal K., Ortiz Alvarez De La Campa M., Rahman R., Schwartz N., Talluto L., Taylor E., Vargas-Muniz J., Weissman J.L. Protect Transgender Scientists. Science, 2025.
Johnston J., Vilardi K., Cotto I., Sudarshan A., Klaus S., Bachmann M., Parsons M., Wilson C., Bott C., Pinto A. Transcriptomic analysis reveals symbiotic relationship between anammox bacteria and comammox Nitrospira in an IFAS wastewater treatment facility. Environmental Science and Technology. 2024.
Johnston J., Nguyen Quoc B., Abrahamson B., Candry P., Ramon C., Cash K., Saccomano S., Samo T., Ye C., Weber P., Winkler M., Mayali X. Increasing aggregate size reduces single-cell organic carbon incorporation by hydrogel-embedded wetland microbes. ISME Communications, 2024
Weissman JL., Chappell C., Francesco Rodrigues de Oliveira B., Evans N., Fagre A., Forsythe D., Frese S., Gregor R., Ishaq S., Johnston J., Matsuda S., Vargas-Muñiz J., Sinnott-Armstrong N., Running a queer- and trans-inclusive microbiology faculty search. PLOS Biology, 2024.
Nou N. Covington J., Lai D., Mayali X., Seymour C., Johnston J., Jian J., Buesseker S., Mosier D., Muok A., Torosian N., Cook A., Sleezer S., Briegel A., Woyke T., Eloe-Fadrosh E., Sharpiro N., Bryan S., Hess M., Carlson R., Mewalal R., Harmon-Smith M., Blaby I., Chen J., Weber P., Li W., Dekas A., Pett-Ridge J., Dodsworth J., Palmer M., Hedlund B. Genome-guided isolation of Fervidibacter sacchari, an aerobic hyperthermophilic polysaccaharide-degrading specialist. Nature Communications, 2024.
Aghi K., Anderson B., Castellano B., Cunningham A., Delano M., Dickinson E., von Diezmann L., Forslun-Statceva S., Grijseels D., Groh S., Guthman E., Jayasinghe I., Johnston J., Long S., McLaughlin J., McLaughlin M., Miyagi M., Rajaraman B., Sancheznieto F., Scheim A., Sun S., Titmuss D., Walsh R., Weinberg Z., Rigorous science demands support of transgender scientists. Cell, 2024
Vilardi, K.J., Cotto, I., Johnston, J., Huo, L., Khan, S., Tuttle, E., Stubbins, A., Pieper, K., Pinto, A. Spatial distribution, and activity-based sorting of aerobic nitrifying bacteria as a function of nitrogen source, loading, and gradient concentration.
Qin W., Wei S., Zheng Y., Choi E., Li X., Johnston J., Wan X., Abrahamson B., Flinkstrom Z., Wang B., Li H., Hou L., Sun X., Wells M., Ngo L., Hunt K., Urakawa H., Tao X., Wang D., Wang D., Pan C., Weber P., Jiang J., Zhou J., Zhang Y., Stahl D., Ward B., Mayali X., Martens-Habbena W., Winkler M., Alternative nitrogen source preferences and transport-dependent ammonia oxidation in ammonia oxidizers
Gregor R.*, Johnston J.*, Coe L., Evans T., Forsythe D., Jones R., Muratore D., Francesco Rodrigues de Oliveira B., Szabo R., Wan Y., Williams J., Chappell, C., Matsuda, S., Ortiz Alvarez de la Campa, M., Queer and Trans Microbiology Consortium, Weissman JL.,* Building a Queer- and Trans-Inclusive Microbiology Conference
Palmer M., Covington J., Zhou E. Thomas S., Habib N., Seymour C., Lai D., Johnston J., Jiao J., Muok A., Dodsworth J., Liu L., Xian W., Zhi X., Silva L., Bowen B., Louis K., Briegel A., Tocheva E., Woyke T., Northern T., Mayali X., Li W., Hedlund B., Thermophilic Dehalococcodia with Unusual Traits Sheds Light on an Unexpected Past, ISME Journal, 2023
Johnston J., Du Z. Behrens S., Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria Maintain Abundance but Lower amoA-Gene Expression during Cold Temperature Nitrification Failure in a Full-Scale Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant, Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
Johnston J., Behrens S., Seasonal Activity and Community Composition Shifts in Full-Scale Activated Sludge Sequencing Batch Reactors, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2020
Johnston J., LaPara T., Behrens S., Composition and Dynamics of the Activated Sludge Microbiome during Seasonal Nitrification Failure, Scientific Reports, 2019
Millerick K., Johnston J., Finneran K. Photobiological Transformation of Hexahydro-1,3,5-Trintrio-1,3,5-Triazine (RDX) using Rhodobacter sphaeroides, Chemosphere, 2016