Christopher A. Francis

Research.com Recognitions

• 2006 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Best Publications

• Ubiquity and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in water columns and sediments of the ocean

  Christopher A. Francis;Kathryn J. Roberts;J. Michael Beman;Alyson E. Santoro

  2666
  Citations

• New processes and players in the nitrogen cycle: the microbial ecology of anaerobic and archaeal ammonia oxidation.

  Christopher A Francis;J Michael Beman;Marcel M M Kuypers

  969
  Citations

• Changes in Bacterial and Archaeal Community Structure and Functional Diversity along a Geochemically Variable Soil Profile

  Colleen M. Hansel;Scott Fendorf;Phillip M. Jardine;Christopher A. Francis

  611
  Citations

• Combined niche and neutral effects in a microbial wastewater treatment community

  Irina Dana Ofiteru;Mary Lunn;Thomas P Curtis;George F Wells

  606
  Citations

• Molecular and biogeochemical evidence for ammonia oxidation by marine Crenarchaeota in the Gulf of California

  J Michael Beman;J Michael Beman;Brian N Popp;Christopher A Francis

  553
  Citations

• Occurrence of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in wastewater treatment plant bioreactors.

  Hee-Deung Park;George F. Wells;Hyokwan Bae;Craig S. Criddle

  513
  Citations

• Activity, abundance and diversity of nitrifying archaea and bacteria in the central California Current

  Alyson E. Santoro;Alyson E. Santoro;Karen L. Casciotti;Christopher A. Francis

  467
  Citations

• Shifts in the relative abundance of ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria and archaea across physicochemical gradients in a subterranean estuary

  Alyson E. Santoro;Christopher A. Francis;Nicholas R. De Sieyes;Alexandria B. Boehm

  441
  Citations

• Relative abundance and diversity of ammonia‐oxidizing archaea and bacteria in the San Francisco Bay estuary

  Annika C. Mosier;Christopher A. Francis

  438
  Citations

• Genome of a Low-Salinity Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeon Determined by Single-Cell and Metagenomic Analysis

  Paul C. Blainey;Annika C. Mosier;Anastasia Potanina;Christopher A. Francis

  376
  Citations

• Oligonucleotide microarray for the study of functional gene diversity in the nitrogen cycle in the environment.

  Gaspar Taroncher-Oldenburg;Erin M. Griner;Chris A. Francis;Bess B. Ward

  329
  Citations

• Ammonia‐oxidizing communities in a highly aerated full‐scale activated sludge bioreactor: betaproteobacterial dynamics and low relative abundance of Crenarchaea

  George F. Wells;Hee Deung Park;Chok Hang Yeung;Brad Eggleston

  320
  Citations

• Diversity of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria in the Sediments of a Hypernutrified Subtropical Estuary: Bahía del Tóbari, Mexico

  J. Michael Beman;Christopher A. Francis

  318
  Citations

• Enzymatic Manganese(II) Oxidation by Metabolically Dormant Spores of Diverse Bacillus Species

  Chris A. Francis;Bradley M. Tebo

  244
  Citations

• Dissimilatory Metal Reduction by the Facultative Anaerobe Pantoea agglomerans SP1

  Chris A. Francis;Anna Y. Obraztsova;Bradley M. Tebo

  237
  Citations

• Denitrifier Community Composition along a Nitrate and Salinity Gradient in a Coastal Aquifer

  Alyson E. Santoro;Alexandria B. Boehm;Christopher A. Francis

  237
  Citations

• Core and Intact Polar Glycerol Dibiphytanyl Glycerol Tetraether Lipids of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea Enriched from Marine and Estuarine Sediments

  Angela Pitcher;Ellen C. Hopmans;Annika C. Mosier;Soo-Je Park

  204
  Citations

• Enzymatic Manganese(II) Oxidation by a Marine α-Proteobacterium

  Chris A. Francis;Edgie Mark Co;Bradley M. Tebo

  202
  Citations

• Diversity of ammonia monooxygenase ( amoA ) genes across environmental gradients in Chesapeake Bay sediments

  Chris A. Francis;Gregory D. O'Mullan;Bess B. Ward

  196
  Citations

• Fine-scale bacterial community dynamics and the taxa–time relationship within a full-scale activated sludge bioreactor

  George F. Wells;Hee Deung Park;Brad Eggleston;Christopher A. Francis

  175
  Citations