Super excited to share the final project of my postdoc career! We found that Borgs and mini-Borgs are widespread across diverse ecosystems. They don't just exist in Banfield Lab — they are everywhere! 🌎

🚨 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...

Huge thanks to The Scientist for this feature that really captured the spirit of our research! www.the-scientist.com/how-ocean-cu...

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

Thanks for covering our latest research @jcvi.org! So happy that our interactive microbial map of the ocean is out for the world to use!

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: