So proud to see this study out — a real honor to be involved in work from my PhD lab!

Big congrats to @ameliarnelson.bsky.social and coauthors on this new preprint. 🎉 We're excited to share this work on microbial CO2 fixation across diverse soil ecosystems, highlighting widespread carbon fixation potential and expanded RuBisCO diversity. Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🌲🔥🧬 New pre-print from Elliot Weiss in the Banfield Lab! We tested whether inoculating burned forest soils with native microbes could aid recovery. A single inoculation accelerated the return of symbiotic fungi and nitrogen cycling! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Big congrats to Susan Mullen and coauthors on this new preprint. 🎉 We're excited to share this work exploring microbial dispersal and establishment across river water, groundwater, soil, and hyporheic zone environments in the East River watershed. Read the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧬 New preprint out from @lingdong-shi.bsky.social et al. on the origin and evolution of archaeal Borg extrachromosomal elements across different environments. Congratulations Ling-Dong and co-authors! 📄 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Blog post on "The AI Rewrite Dilemma": lh3.github.io/2026/04/17/t...

Congratulations @wshuai.bsky.social and co-authors! We’re excited to introduce MODIFI, our new scalable method for detecting DNA modifications in PacBio metagenomic data and estimating ECE-host linkage. Check out the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Studying DNA modification in microbes shouldn't be limited by methodology. 🧬 We’re excited to introduce MODIFI, our new scalable method for detecting DNA modifications in PacBio metagenomic data and estimating ECE-host linkage. Check out the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thrilled to share that my precious work on SpecImmune in Hong Kong is now published in Advanced Science! This algorithm represents a major step forward in using long-read sequencing to decode the highly polymorphic immune genes. Read the paper: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨 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...

Troubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes - @merenbey.bsky.social @banfieldlab.bsky.social go.nature.com/44P7nSm

My 2025 in GitHub

Out now in Nature Communications, from IGI's Jill Banfield (The Banfield Lab) and collaborators: Convergent evolution of viral-like Borg archaeal extrachromosomal elements and giant eukaryotic viruses Read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65646-7

Incredible science coming out from our lab. Congrats @kivenson.bsky.social 🎉

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....

We're excited to help launch the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on #microbiome #GenomeEditing, coming up in January in Pomona, CA! Learn more and register here: https://ow.ly/63z150X9XkG

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