Education

• Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
• B.A. Biology, Bard College

Research Interests

• Microbial ecology
• Wetland and soil biogeochemistry
• Nitrogen cycling
• Environmental and public health microbiology

Select Publications

• Battistelli JM and RB Franklin. 2022. Online strategies to improve quantitative skills in microbiology laboratory courses. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education.
• Berrier, DJ, SC Neubauer, and RB Franklin. 2022. Cooperative microbial interactions mediate community biogeochemical responses to saltwater intrusion in wetland soils. FEMS Microbiology Ecology.
• Mahaney, AP and RB Franklin. 2022. Persistence of wastewater-associated antibiotic resistant bacteria in river microcosms. Science of the Total Environment.
• Giannopoulos G, KR Hartop, BL Brown, B Song, L Elsgaard, RB Franklin. 2020. Trace metal availability affects greenhouse gas emissions and microbial functional group abundance in freshwater wetland sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology.
• Dang C, EM Morrissey, SC Neubauer, and RB Franklin. 2019. Novel microbial community composition and carbon biogeochemistry emerge over time following saltwater intrusion in wetlands. Global Change Biology.

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Affiliations

• Affiliate Faculty, VCU Rice Rivers Center

Courses

• BIOL 401: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• BIOL 475: Capstone Seminar - Bacteria: Allies & Enemies 
• BIOL 509: Microbial Ecology
• BIOL 607: Science Communication Fundamentals