David Johnson

Employment

• Eawag

Education

• University of California

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Publications (80)

• Biosurfactants direct the evolutionary dynamics of surface-associated microbial systems
  Science Advances 2026 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aeh8127
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• Spatial constraints determine the spread of plasmid-encoded antibiotic resistance between bacterial colonies
  mSystems 2026 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00531-26
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• Managing microbial interactions in environmental biotechnology: can we scale interaction principles?
  Trends in Microbiology 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2026.04.003
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• Increased Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks Associate With Stronger Calcium–Microbial and Multi‐Trophic Interactions Under Warming
  Global Change Biology 2026 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70826
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• Sensitivity of microbial spatial self-organization to surface friction depends on metabolic interactions
  The ISME Journal 2026 DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wrag035
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• Plasmid transfer and loss probabilities interactively determine antibiotic resistance spread in surface-associated bacterial biomass
  2026 DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.08.698332
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• The balance between microbial arsenic methylation and demethylation in paddy soils underpins global arsenic risk and straighthead disease in rice
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2025 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2508311122
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• Phage-mediated peripheral kill-the-winner facilitates the maintenance of costly antibiotic resistance
  Nature Communications 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61055-y
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• Microbial community composition reflects water usage and storage conditions in a city-wide study of non-sewered wastewater (fecal sludge)
  PLOS Water 2025 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pwat.0000386
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• Evaporation controls contact-dependent bacterial killing during surface-associated growth
  2025 DOI: 10.1093/ismeco/ycaf034
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• Phage lysis facilitates the maintenance of costly antibiotic resistance in the absence of antibiotic pressure
  2025 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5879387/v1
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• Fungal hyphae promote bacterial contact-dependent killing during surface-associated growth
  The ISME Journal 2025 DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wraf135
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• Metabolic interactions control the transfer and spread of plasmid-encoded antibiotic resistance during surface-associated microbial growth
  Cell Reports 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114653
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• Phage predation accelerates the spread of plasmid-encoded antibiotic resistance
  Nature Communications 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49840-7
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• Bacteria spiral into control
  Nature Physics 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02509-w
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• Phage predation accelerates the spread of plasmid-encoded antibiotic resistance
  2024 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3875656/v1
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• Denitrification in low oxic environments increases the accumulation of nitrogen oxide intermediates and modulates the evolutionary potential of microbial populations
  Environmental Microbiology Reports 2024 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.13221
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• Making waves: Enhancing pollutant biodegradation via rational engineering of microbial consortia
  Water Research 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120756
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• Two-tiered mutualism improves survival and competitiveness of cross-feeding soil bacteria
  The ISME Journal 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-023-01519-5
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• Evaporation-induced hydrodynamics control plasmid transfer during surface-associated microbial growth
  npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41522-023-00428-x
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