Microbial Ecology
of the
Built Environment
Research Interests
I love exploring unique relationships between microbes in complex communities and understanding how engineering decisions influence microbial behaviors. I predominantly work with wastewater nitrification, but have experience with graywater, carbon cycling in wetland microbial communities, extremophiles from hotsprings, microbial communities on drinking water granular activated carbon biofilters, iron cycling microbial communities, and even bee gut microbiomes!
Why Queer Ms Frizzle?
It’s a loving moniker given to me from past high school students after years of LGTBQ+ high school outreach with Queer Science
About
Dr. Juliet Johnston (she/they) is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Microbiology and Bioremediation at Hampshire College. She previously held positions as an ASEE eFellows Postdoctoral Researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology studying the transcriptomic expression of nitrifying bacteria in engineered environments with Dr. Ameet Pinto, and a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory studying wetland microbial community with Dr. Xavier Mayali.