Thrilled to share that my precious work on SpecImmune in Hong Kong is now published in Advanced Science!
This algorithm represents a major step forward in using long-read sequencing to decode the highly polymorphic immune genes. Read the paper: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🚨 New pre-print alert!
Jumbo circular extrachromosomal elements of methane-oxidizing archaea with variably extensive metabolic and defense gene repertoires
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Troubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes - @merenbey.bsky.social @banfieldlab.bsky.social go.nature.com/44P7nSm
My 2025 in GitHub
Congrats!
Out now in Nature Communications, from IGI's Jill Banfield (The Banfield Lab) and collaborators: Convergent evolution of viral-like Borg archaeal extrachromosomal elements and giant eukaryotic viruses
Read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65646-7
Incredible science coming out from our lab. Congrats @kivenson.bsky.social 🎉
We are thrilled to announce our latest publication in the Microbiome journal in collaboration with
@thehesslab.bsky.social
Supplementation with red seaweed in cows reduces methane and induces previously uncharacterized hydrogenotropic bacteria.
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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We're excited to help launch the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on #microbiome #GenomeEditing, coming up in January in Pomona, CA! Learn more and register here: https://ow.ly/63z150X9XkG
Most plasmids described in E. coli are small compared to the megaplasmids we identified here! Check out the preprint if you want to learn about these mysterious large elements and their potential functions 🧬. I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to work on this in @banfieldlab.bsky.social
