@leymiloslavich
Follow us on: @banfieldlab.bsky.social University of California-Berkeley at the Innovative Genomics Institute. Purveyors of Microbial Ecology, Bioinformatics, & Nanogeoscience. Reposts or likes≠endorsements. www.banfieldlab.com
Excited to share our discovery of archaeal circular, jumbo extrachromosomal elements (up to ~535 kb genomes). One related, 409-kb genome is integrated in CH4-eating Methanoperedens, representing the largest integrative element in Archaea so far! Curious about what they are doing? See the paper
We are extremely excited to share our newly designed lab website with our friends and scientific community: www.diamondlab.bio
Design/coding performed by @gabo-bellamy.bsky.social with help from @leymiloslavich.bsky.social for infrastructure support. Huge thanks for bringing to fruition!!!
🚨 Our Lab is HIRING! If you are interested in characterizing model microbiomes using genome-resolved methods, statistical/metabolic modeling, and/or machine learning please submit an application here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05234
#postdoc #sciencejobs #biology #microbiome
Out now in Nature Communications: Convergent evolution of viral-like Borg archaeal extrachromosomal elements and giant eukaryotic viruses
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@luisvalentin.bsky.social @lingdong-shi.bsky.social @martianmicrobe.bsky.social @mschoelmerich.bsky.social
New paper out: An archaeal genetic code with all TAG codons as pyrrolysine: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Incredible science coming out from our lab. Congrats @kivenson.bsky.social 🎉
Congrats!
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....
luma.com/lg5d9cng
Newest preprint from the group on megaplasmids in E. coli led by @assemblerag.bsky.social. In addition to our findings in metagenomic datasets, we identified an RNA-seq project from a giant panda gut sample with evidence of megaplasmids. We would like to include the data creators in our study.
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
In a recent paper, IGI's @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social @doudna-lab.bsky.social and Jill Banfield @banfieldlab.bsky.social collaborate with UCLA's @jacobsenucla.bsky.social to create a new, tiny #CRISPR tool for quicker, easier plant genome editing! Read more in this Q&A with Steve: ow.ly/6Szs50VGElf
Out now:
Structure of an archaeal ribosome reveals a divergent active site and hibernation factor
@jhdcate.bsky.social @banfieldlab.bsky.social @diptinayak.bsky.social & co
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Many of you gave me so much encouragement when I posted here earlier about my 10 year long passion project to make a microbial map of the ocean. Pinch me because I can't believe I get to update you that today that research was published in the journal SCIENCE! @science.org
🥳🥳 Our work exploring the core microbiomes of stable cyanobacterial communities is now out in the @isme-microbes.bsky.social Journal!!! Excellent work by @andrejakust.bsky.social and company!
#microbiology #cyanobacteria #metagenomics
🚨 Fresh from the press! We created and analyzed over 100 in vitro cyanobacterial consortia using well-characterized model cyanobacterial hosts to better understand how cyanobacteria recruit and interact with their microbiomes.
Check it out: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
The 2025 Banfield Retreat was fantastic 🦠 so many talented scientists in one place is a sure way to come up with some great ideas!
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