Our manuscript describing the genome profiling software METABOLIC is now up on bioRxiv! Any feedback, comments, bugs, and issues are welcome. The Anantharaman Lab Zhichao Zhou Patricia Tran, PhD Kristopher Kieft biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Rohan is a good friend who supported me through some tough times, so when he says something like that I actually believe him. He indeed put his mind, body, heart, spirit and soul into setting up this covid-19 testing facility from scratch in record time.

Preprint #1 out of #2 out today: Huge and variable diversity of episymbiotic CPR bacteria and DPANN archaea in groundwater ecosystems from @c_y_he Ray Keren Ibrahim @jhdcate biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Preprint #2 out today: Meanders as a scaling motif for understanding of floodplain soil microbiome and biogeochemical potential at the watershed scale biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Out today in mBio - Bacterial Secondary Metabolite Biosynthetic Potential in Soil Varies with Phylum, Depth, and Vegetation Type mbio.asm.org/content/11/3/e…

New #OpenAccess research from Jillian Banfield and colleagues: The rise of diversity in #metabolic platforms across the Candidate Phyla Radiation #phylogenomics #evolution #metagenomics Read it here: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

New preprint out at bioRxiv Microbiology: Targeted Genome Editing of Bacteria Within Microbial Communities biorxiv.org/content/10.110… By Ben Rubin, Spencer Diamond Brady Cress @acritschristoph @c_y_he Rohan Sachdeva Dylan Smock Institute for Geographic Information Science @doudna_lab et al.

Out today in mSystems! How to design your next DNA stable isotope probing experiment: resolution, minimum detectable effect and replication. Firestone Lab Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge Bruce Hungate Alex Greenlon Rohan Sachdeva Kirsten Hofmockel msystems.asm.org/content/5/4/e0…

Dear sci-Twitter friends & colleagues: I am happy to finally, after too many YEARS, be able to share some of the main work from my challenging but rewarding time as a The Banfield Lab PhD student. 1/n #microbiology #EET #geobiology #metagenomics #Geobacter frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

The Banfield lab and @igisci are looking for a bioinformatics #PostDoc to work on identifying features of uncultured microbial genomes, including those with utility in genome editing. Full description: docs.google.com/document/d/1uB…

In metagenomes of uncultivated organisms, we found a sister clade to Form I Rubisco that lacks the small subunit (so far found entirely in a single order of Chloroflexi!). Awesome work led by ShihLab and Doug Banda to characterize this missing piece in Rubisco evolution!

Happy Halloween!! The Phenol Chloroform solution sure looks tasty

We're excited to announce the Atlas of Bacterial & Archaeal Cell Structure (cellstructureatlas.org), an open-access multimedia textbook that shows what's inside microbial cells like never before, featuring ~150 of our best cryotomograms and animations

We're deploying vaccines like we do annual flu shots rather than the mass vaccinations done in Africa & Asia where millions are vaccinated in weeks Years ago, Joe Rhatigan & I studied these campaigns. They offer several lessons that can inform what we need in the US now THREAD

To all the nerdy lovers vm.tiktok.com/ZMJoe7Faa/ #sciencetwitter #ValentinesDay #oxytocin #Chemistry

Out today: Patterns of gene content and co-occurrence constrain the evolutionary path toward animal association in CPR bacteria From Alex Jaffe w/ Christine He Ray Keren @luis_valentin26 Keith Bouma-Gregson Patrick T West Ibrahim Rohan Sachdeva biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

out today in mBio - journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mB… thanks to our anon. reviewers for helping us make our findings more easily linked w/ prev. published genomes + lit! The Banfield Lab

Check out my new preprint on the Chloroflexi! I hope this analysis serves to help other researchers who are interested in these super cool microbes. They're full of surprises!