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...

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...

Enabling Megascale Microbiome Analysis with DartUniFrac | bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.01.708916v1

#NatMicroPicks Aerobic archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor? 🦠🫁 The ancestor of eukaryotes may have combined hydrogen metabolism with aerobic respiration, shaping early cellular complexity. #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new preprint from The Banfield Lab looks at mobile genetic elements with single-cell precision. Read here: https://ow.ly/hFBX50Y0nQA #microbiology

Remembering Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani on #WorldCancerDay. Dr. Mirzakhani was first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in #mathematics. She died in 2017 from #breastcancer at the age of 40. stanford.io/2C0io2A#WorldCancerDay#mathematics#breastcancer#WomenInSTEM

A prophage-encoded abortive infection protein preserves host and prophage spread www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out Now! Phosphate deprivation restricts bacterial degradation of the marine polysaccharide fucoidan #MicroSky

Our latest. Led by the very talented @ahoiching.bsky.social Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

Our new paper on Insertion Sequences (IS) in #Klebsiella - Lineages have vastly different IS loads and profiles - An inverse relationship between IS load and metabolic capacity, in particular phosphorus use, consistent with early reductive evolution. www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

TimeVault transforms vault particles into transcriptome recording devices, which are applied to uncover transcriptional heterogeneity in drug-tolerant persister cancer cells #NBThighlight www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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

A new preprint on expanding the genetic code, from IGI's Jill Banfield, Peter Penev, and collaborators across the country: https://ow.ly/HiYO50XVNXR

New preprint out: Revealing the pervasive landscape of MGE-host interactions in situ with single-cell genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @mingyan-igi.bsky.social

Happy new year! The second big project of my PhD in Rachel Whitaker's lab is now up! 🎉 We look at how provirus infection affects the evolution of the bacterial chromosome with different types of viral induction – with CRISPRs or antibiotics. Take a peek 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Honoured and quite blown-over to receive this award. I have been, and continue to be, very lucky - first with great mentors, and then really prodigious students, postdocs and collaborators. Working with them has been a joy.

Newest preprint from the group on megaplasmids in E. coli led by @assemblerag.bsky.social. In addition to our findings in metagenomic datasets, we identified an RNA-seq project from a giant panda gut sample with evidence of megaplasmids. We would like to include the data creators in our study.

SciLifeLab researchers Maliheh Mehrshad (SLU) and Camilla Engblom (@ki.se) appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows ↓ 🧪 “This program gives researchers the chance to pursue high-risk, high-gain research ideas” – @mehrshmali.bsky.social Q&A ↓ www.scilifelab.se/news/long-te... @kawresearch.bsky.social

Think you need large volumes for microbial experiments? Our recent publication introduces HiMEx, a simple, scalable method for microbial ecology. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... 🦠 it provides an easy, efficient approach to capturing viral diversity, opening new opportunities for virome analysis.

Amazing ability of invasive Gracilaria vermiculophylla to control microbial interaction network of its biofilm. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...