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

 Berkeley, CA
nanogeoscience.berkeley.edu
Joined March 2017
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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 (@Jwestrob) profile pictureJacob West-Roberts@Jwestrob23 Nov 2023
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. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Giant genes are rare but implicated in cell wall degradation by predatory bacteria

Giant genes are rare but implicated in cell wall degradation by predatory bacteria

Across the tree of life, gene lengths vary, but most are no more than a few thousand base pairs in length. The largest protein often reported is the ∼40,000 aa eukaryotic Titin. Even larger proteins...

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Celebrating that Jill receives the Leeuwenhoek Medal this year! It is is granted every ten years to the scientist judged to have made the most significant contribution to microbiology during the preceding decade. Cheers @BanfieldJill !
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Check out our latest research on the floodplain soil microbiome! doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-0… youtu.be/WzHrytNP66Y @MicrobiomeJ @researchsquare @EESAlbnl
Meanders as a scaling motif for understanding of floodplain soil microbiome and biogeochemical...

Meanders as a scaling motif for understanding of floodplain soil microbiome and biogeochemical...

Microbiome - Biogeochemical exports from watersheds are modulated by the activity of microorganisms that function over micron scales. Here, we tested the hypothesis that meander-bound regions share...

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Happy 2nd birthday to metagenomic powwow! Our casual weekly meeting about practical bioinformatics and metagenomics methods
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Congratulations to our newly qualified graduate students Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph (second from left) and Alex Jaffee @alexander_jaffe (right) !
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Banfield lab retreat up in Northern California- great weekend of camping, hiking, and relaxing!
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The Banfield Lab CPR / DPANN team fully assembled!
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Lab scuba diving trip thwarted by poor weather, but still had a great day exploring Monterey!
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Farewell lunch for @ChrisMKSieber. Best of luck at @WholeBiome- you will be missed!
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