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Ellinor Frank

Ellinor Frank

PhD student

Ellinor was an industrial PhD student at Sweden Water Research through Lund University and has participated in the Urbana Bad project since 2019. The work within the project continued during her Master’s thesis which was completed in the spring of 2020. After that she continued to work within the project as an industrial doctoral student with planned doctoral thesis defence in October 2025.

Ellinor’s part in the project has been to analyse Next Generation Sequencing data generated from sea floor sediment and water collected in Öresund. The purpose of the analysis is to evaluate the sediments’ role in the spread and resuspension of bacteria, as well as investigating connections between possible sources of faecal bacteria and the microbial communities in the sediments. The results from these analyses will be used as a foundation upon which the quality of the bathing water along Skåne’s west coast will be evaluated. Possible solutions to the issues will be investigated so that the bad water quality of our beaches can be solved.

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Ongoing Projects

Evaluation of the bacterial content in sediments in connection to bathing water quality

PHD PROJECT The project focused on investigating the source of poor bathing water quality using…

Training

Master of Science in Engineering, Biotechnology with a specialization in molecular biotechnology at Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Lund University.

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Relaterade publikationer

Ellinor Frank, Jon Ahlinder, Therese Jephson, Kenneth M. Persson, Elisabet Lindberg, Catherine J. Paul (2023) Marine sediments are identified as an environmental reservoir for Escherichia coli: Comparing signature-based and novel amplicon sequencing approaches for microbial source tracking Science of The Total Environment,

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Frank, E. M., Suarez, C., Erb, I. K., Jephson, T., Lindberg, E., Paul, C. J. (2025) Microbial Contamination in Urban Marine Sediments: Source Identification Using Microbial Community Analysis and Fecal Indicator Bacteria microorganisms, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms13050983

Isabel K Erb, Carolina Suarez, Ellinor M Frank, Johan Bengtsson-Palme, Elisabet Lindberg, Catherine J Paul (2024) Escherichia coli in urban marine sediments: interpreting virulence, biofilm formation, halotolerance and antibiotic resistance to infer contamination or naturalisation Fems Microbes , DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsmc/xtae024

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Ellinor Frank (2025) Microbial Source Tracking for Bathing Water Quality Assessment: E. coli and Bacterial Communities in Coastal Environment Department of Building and Environmental Technology, Lund University,

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