Research output per year
Research output per year
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Research interests
Research in Prof. McDonald’s group focusses on the following broad themes:
- Investigating the role of the oak microbiome in health and disease, characterising microbial disease suppression, engineering the oak microbiome to future-proof tree health and combat tree disease.
- Characterising the microbial processes of waste biomass conversion to biogas in landfill sites and anaerobic digestion plants to develop engineered microbiomes for enhanced waste conversion to biogas.
- Integrating knowledge on microbiome engineering and microbiome science across diverse systems (e.g. plants, humans, industrial systems) to identify key scientific principles that underpin microbiome assembly and function.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Professor, Bangor University
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Investigating the impact of temperature on growth rate of the root rot fungus, Gymnopus fusipes
Pettifor, B. J., Kajamuhan, A., Denman, S. & Mcdonald, J. E., 25 Jun 2024, In: Access Microbiology. 6, 6, 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Soil metabolomics-current challenges and future perspectives
McDonald, J., 1 Jun 2024, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 109382.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Lutispora saccharofermentans sp. nov., a mesophilic, non-spore-forming bacterium isolated from a lab-scale methanogenic landfill bioreactor digesting anaerobic sludge, and emendation of the genus Lutispora to include species which are non-spore-forming and mesophilic
McDonald, J., 25 Jan 2023, In: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A comparison of precipitation and filtration-based SARS-CoV-2 recovery methods and the influence of temperature, turbidity, and surfactant load in urban wastewater
Kevill, J. L., Pellett, C., Farkas, K., Brown, M. R., Bassano, I., Denise, H., McDonald, J. E., Malham, S. K., Porter, J., Warren, J., Evens, N. P., Paterson, S., Singer, A. C. & Jones, D. L., 20 Feb 2022, In: Science of the Total Environment. 808, 151916.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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RNA-viromics reveals diverse communities of soil RNA viruses with the potential to affect grassland ecosystems across multiple trophic levels
Hillary, L. S., Adriaenssens, E. M., Jones, D. L. & McDonald, J. E., Dec 2022, In: ISME Communications. 2, 1, 10 p., 34.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Testing limitations to methanotrophy on tree stems
Chen, Y. (Co-Investigator), McDonald, J. (Co-Investigator) & Gauci, V. (Principal Investigator)
1/01/25 → 30/06/26
Project: Research
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A pipeline for high-throughput microbial isolation, sorting, screening and synthetic community assembly
McDonald, M. (Co-Investigator), van Schaik, W. (Co-Investigator), McDonald, J. (Principal Investigator), Quick, J. (Co-Investigator), Overton, T. (Co-Investigator), Cox, M. (Co-Investigator), Jackson, R. (Co-Investigator), Crouch, L. (Co-Investigator), Tsai, H.-J. (Co-Investigator) & Blair, J. (Co-Investigator)
Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
1/08/23 → 31/07/24
Project: Research Councils