New paper out today in @nature - Novel soil bacteria possess diverse genes for secondary metabolite biosynthesis nature.com/articles/s4158… @acritschristoph Spencer Diamond butter strong

Our work using stable isotope metagenomics to study Saccharibacteria (TM7) in soil is out now in Microbiome- Stable isotope informed genome-resolved metagenomics reveals that Saccharibacteria utilize microbially-processed plant-derived carbon microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

New work on the diversity and distribution of the RuBisCO superfamily out today in bioRxiv - "Lateral gene transfer shapes the distribution of RuBisCO among Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria and DPANN archaea" biorxiv.org/content/early/… Alex Jaffe Cindy Castelle

“We notice the losses. It’s the diminishment that we don’t see.” A critically important, and magnificently written, piece about vanishing insects, and much more. By Brooke Jarvis, who is one of the finest science writers around. nytimes.com/2018/11/27/mag…?

New work recovering eukaryotic genomes from metagenomes out in Microbiome - Genome-resolved metagenomics of eukaryotic populations during early colonization of premature infants and in hospital rooms microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Matt Olm Patrick T West bubba_brooks michael morowitz

New manuscript representing almost a decade of work out now on bioRxiv: Necrotizing enterocolitis is preceded by increased gut bacterial replication, Klebsiella, and fimbriae-encoding bacteria that may stimulate TLR4 receptors biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Matt Olm michael morowitz

🤩Algal-fungal symbiosis leads to photosynthetic mycelium! 🤩 Great study by the lab of Greg Bonito! doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Necrotizing enterocolitis is preceded by increased gut bacterial replication, Klebsiella, and fimbriae-encoding bacteria advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/12/e… out today in Science Advances

Out today on bioRxiv Microbiology Genetic and behavioral adaptation of Candida parapsilosis to the microbiome of hospitalized infants revealed by in situ genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics biorxiv.org/content/10.110… from Patrick T West Matt Olm Yue Clare Lou, Ph.D.!

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…

Check out our new study by Patrick T West on the genomics and population diversity of Candida parapsilosis in the guts of premature infants! microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

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

Happy to present the new phylum Sanchytriomycota, amoeboid fungi sister to blastoclads and endowed with non-motile flagella, and a global fungal phylogeny with strong support for the root on the Chytridiomycota branch. With Luis Javier Galindo & @guifftc rdcu.be/cutuI

Extremely excited to share a generalizable strategy for targeted microbial community editing developed with my co-first authors Brady Cress and Ben Rubin of @doudna_lab. Out today in Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…. The Banfield Lab Institute for Geographic Information Science #MCAFESFA #microbiology #Biology

Microbial eukaryotes more and more accessible!! Metagenome assembled genomes are for eukaryotes too cell.com/cell-genomics/…

Check out Rachael Chanin, Ami Bhatt, and I's new mini-review on genomic structural variation in bacteria and how its often overlooked! From genome structure to function: insights into structural variation ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

De novo assembly of high quality Eukaryotic genomes directly from short read data- biorxiv.org/content/early/…