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

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@BanfieldLab
The Banfield Lab
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We're moving off of X! Find us at BlueSky at Hope to see you there!.
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@BanfieldLab
The Banfield Lab
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🌊 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!🌎
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Bethany Kolody
6 months
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:
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@BanfieldLab
The Banfield Lab
9 months
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).
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The Banfield Lab
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🚨 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)
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@BanfieldLab
The Banfield Lab
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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:
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The Banfield Lab
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RT @alvinpf1: Excited to share this amazing work led by @TheHessLab and @Dr__Diamond at @igisci and sponsored by @TheAudaciousPrj. We use m….
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The Banfield Lab
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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
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@BanfieldLab
The Banfield Lab
2 years
Check out Clare's newly published paper on bacteriophage dynamics in the infant gut microbiome!.
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Yue Clare Lou, Ph.D.
2 years
🦠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:.
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@BanfieldLab
The Banfield Lab
2 years
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:
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The Banfield Lab
2 years
RT @AndrejaKust: Excited to share our preprint on cyanobacterial communities and their core microbiome, with @Dr__Diamond as corresponding….
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The Banfield Lab
2 years
RT @Jwestrob: Enormously excited to share the Nature article written about our recent work with the giant proteins!
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The Banfield Lab
2 years
RT @SieraVirus: Trust @Jwestrob and @BanfieldLab to come up with nature's weirdest. 1/2.The world’s largest proteins? These mega-molecules….
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The Banfield Lab
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RT @LabShih: It's (double) prime time: now in @CurrentBiology, our latest rubisco work with @NogalesLab, @BanfieldLab, @SibylsSAXS, and mor….
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The Banfield Lab
2 years
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.
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Jacob West-Roberts
2 years
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.
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The Banfield Lab
2 years
RT @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….
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The Banfield Lab
2 years
The first of our two-part preprint bonanza: @luisarchaeota and his fantastic preprint on the newly presented phylum of Asgard Archaea, the Atabeyarchaeota!.
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Luis E. Valentín-Alvarado
2 years
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.
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The Banfield Lab
2 years
Shouts out to the stellar @luisarchaeota for winning Best Graduate Student Oral Presentation at SACNAS!.
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Luis E. Valentín-Alvarado
2 years
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 🌎
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@BanfieldLab
The Banfield Lab
2 years
RT @ClareLou9: thanks @igisci ☺️💕.
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@BanfieldLab
The Banfield Lab
2 years
Check out Clare's new preprint on phage ecology in infant gut microbiomes!.
@ClareLou9
Yue Clare Lou, Ph.D.
2 years
🚨 New preprint: #phage strain colonization dynamics in infant gut #microbiomes🧵.
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The Banfield Lab
2 years
RT @BanfieldJill: 1. Borgs with active nanowires ⛓️ and a constellation of mini-Borgs, viruses, plasmids and mysterious elements circling t….
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