The Banfield Lab

Located at the University of California-Berkeley. Purveyors of Microbial Ecology, Bioinformatics, & Nanogeoscience. RT≠endorsements.

[The Banfield Lab @BanfieldLab]

We're moving off of X! Find us at BlueSky at https://t.co/Ps7qOa5RPU. Hope to see you there!

[The Banfield Lab @BanfieldLab]

🌊 Through metagenomics and hydrographic data, Bethany Kolody and team uncovered 6 microbial cohorts and 10 functional zones structured by ocean circulation in the South Pacific. Congrats on this breakthrough in ocean microbial ecology!🌎https://t.co/V9bqvaqRCN

[Bethany Kolody @science_doodles]

I’m very excited to finally share the results of a passion project that has been on my mind for nearly a decade. You can find the pre-print below, but what follows is the saga of how this project came to be:

[The Banfield Lab @BanfieldLab]

Proteomics confirmed many new Pyl-containing proteins, raising questions about the role of this amino acid in protein structure and function. We also used Pyl machinery from Code 34 archaea to introduce new-to-nature pyrrolysine analogs into proteins in E. coli! @v_kivenson (2/2)

[The Banfield Lab @BanfieldLab]

🚨 We discovered a new genetic code, "Genetic Code 34," sporadically distributed in archaea. Select archaea have genome-wide recoding of the TAG stop codon to pyrrolysine; the adoption of this code was likely driven by metabolic processes. (1/2) https://t.co/wzEKFpSPxE

[The Banfield Lab @BanfieldLab]

Recent research from our lab, led by @LingDongShi1, unveils "mini-Borgs" – smaller linear extrachromosomal elements in Methanoperedens archaea. These mini-Borgs resemble previously described Borgs and could modulate their hosts' activity.

Read more: https://t.co/ikt86SZjA5

[Pengfan Zhang @alvinpf1]

Excited to share this amazing work led by @TheHessLab and @Dr__Diamond at @igisci and sponsored by @TheAudaciousPrj. We use multi-omics to show how the rumen microbiome responds to methanogenesis suppression and identify a Duodenibacillus Sp. as an alternative hydrogen sink. https://t.co/kpZ9MSqWlc I'd like to highlight major findings in this study. Thread is here:

[The Banfield Lab @BanfieldLab]

COBRA, a method for joining viral contigs in metagenomic assembly, significantly improves accuracy and completeness, leading to more reliable analysis of gene content, diversity, and evolution @ChenLinxing @BanfieldJill https://t.co/je9VxPnXas

[The Banfield Lab @BanfieldLab]

Check out Clare's newly published paper on bacteriophage dynamics in the infant gut microbiome!

[Yue Clare Lou, Ph.D. @ClareLou9]

🦠What are the early-life colonization & assembly dynamics of bacteriophages? Out today online in
@cellhostmicrobe, our paper took a strain-resolved approach to investigate early phage colonizers.

Article:
https://t.co/C74GsnNFAB

[The Banfield Lab @BanfieldLab]

New research from @AndrejaKust and the @Dr__Diamond lab on cyanobacterial communities! Which microbes like to live with Cyanobacteria in model communities? Take a look here and find out: https://t.co/pvQmWFASz6

[Andreja Kust @AndrejaKust]

Excited to share our preprint on cyanobacterial communities and their core microbiome, with @Dr__Diamond as corresponding author and incredible help from @jkzorz, @K_BoumaGregson, @catacruanas, @BanfieldLab. #microbiome #Genomics #WomenInSTEM

https://t.co/zhMjA8qslJ

[Jacob West-Roberts @Jwestrob]

Enormously excited to share the Nature article written about our recent work with the giant proteins! https://t.co/jcr9F0PkMW

[🎗Ella Sieradzki 🐈🐕 @SieraVirus]

Trust @Jwestrob and @BanfieldLab to come up with nature's weirdest. 1/2
The world’s largest proteins? These mega-molecules turn bacteria into predators https://t.co/pLejcOwiKA

[ShihLab @LabShih]

It's (double) prime time: now in @CurrentBiology, our latest rubisco work with @NogalesLab, @BanfieldLab, @SibylsSAXS, and more! Structural studies of metagenomic form Iα and I′′ enzymes illuminate the evolutionary trajectory of rubisco oligomerization:
https://t.co/NjJm83wDyi

[The Banfield Lab @BanfieldLab]

And the second part of our two-part preprint bonanza- @Jwestrob (your esteemed banfield lab twitter admin) and the giant proteins! Click through for some beautiful alphafold-predicted protein structures from the biggest (predicted) proteins you've ever seen.

[Jacob West-Roberts @Jwestrob]

I'm thrilled to present the research I've been working on for the last few years in preprint format. We've found giant genes (>30,000 amino acids!!) across domain bacteria, but concentrated in the candidate phylum Omnitrophota. https://t.co/QeTIirCTZN

[Jacob West-Roberts @Jwestrob]

I'm thrilled to present the research I've been working on for the last few years in preprint format. We've found giant genes (>30,000 amino acids!!) across domain bacteria, but concentrated in the candidate phylum Omnitrophota. https://t.co/QeTIirCTZN

[The Banfield Lab @BanfieldLab]

The first of our two-part preprint bonanza: @luisarchaeota and his fantastic preprint on the newly presented phylum of Asgard Archaea, the Atabeyarchaeota!

[Luis E. Valentín-Alvarado @luisarchaeota]

1/🧵 I’m really excited to share our new pre-print on #AsgardArchaeaa manuscript now on #bioRxiv with co-first @katy_appler! We described soil-associated Asgard archaea predicted to be non-methanogenic acetogens. Kuddos to @val_deanda @BanfieldLab @MSchoelmerich

[The Banfield Lab @BanfieldLab]

Shouts out to the stellar @luisarchaeota for winning Best Graduate Student Oral Presentation at SACNAS!

[Luis E. Valentín-Alvarado @luisarchaeota]

Deeply honored and humbled to receive the Best Graduate Student Oral Presentation at @SACNAS . With so many incredible speakers, this recognition means a lot. Thanks to my advisor @BanfieldLab and collaborators.

Luis Valentin-Alvarado de Santa Isabel, PR 🇵🇷 para el mundo 🌎

[Yue Clare Lou, Ph.D. @ClareLou9]

thanks @igisci ☺️💕

[The Banfield Lab @BanfieldLab]

Check out Clare's new preprint on phage ecology in infant gut microbiomes!

[Yue Clare Lou, Ph.D. @ClareLou9]

🚨 New preprint: #phage strain colonization dynamics in infant gut #microbiomes🧵

https://t.co/Rm98TGO3of

[Jill Banfield @BanfieldJill]

1. Borgs with active nanowires ⛓️ and a constellation of mini-Borgs, viruses, plasmids and mysterious elements circling the mothership of methane-oxidizing archaea! 🚀