Four years later and this tweet is just as important today. Get out and #VOTE! There is STILL so much at stake.

Pre-print 🚨 alert! We used AI protein structure prediction to analyze ~10,000 Borg proteins, revealing potential capsid proteins & viral-like features in these massive elements from methane-eating archaea. Could they be the first archaeal giant viruses? Check it out!

And then there was one… Celebrating the final ‘cosm from our 7th & last 13CO2 experiment of 2024. We’re studying how the psY gene affects CH4 fluxes & soil C cycles. Much gratitude to Rina Estera MariaFlorenciaErcoli Pam Ronald Lab Savage Lab & many others Institute for Geographic Information Science

New work from Michael Fischbach lab! It was such an honor to work with the insanely talented Djenet Bousbaine and so fun to see it all come together here!

🎓Congratulations to Hans Singh, who recently earned his PhD from Scripps! His research in marine microbiology & genomics focused on the #microbiome of the #deepsea, exploring its potential to produce compounds with applications in natural products. 🌎⬇️ scripps.ucsd.edu/news/scripps-s…

The MOANA tool is live now, so give it a try! A ready-to-run docker image of the app is available at hub.docker.com/r/bkolody/moan… prokaryotes (16S rRNA amplicons), hub.docker.com/r/bkolody/moan… eukaryotes (18S rRNA amplicons) and hub.docker.com/r/bkolody/moan… reconstructed genomes. Here are the

This is such incredible work! I’ve been obsessed with this project and its implications ever since Bethany Kolody shared her dream of it when we first met at Scripps Institution of Oceanography . What a journey, with amazing discoveries and definitely more to uncover! Congrats Bethany & team! 🎉

🌊 Through metagenomics and hydrographic data, Bethany Kolody and team uncovered 6 microbial cohorts and 10 functional zones structured by ocean circulation in the South Pacific. Congrats on this breakthrough in ocean microbial ecology!🌎doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

🥳🥳 Our paper using #metagenomics to explore the core species of stable #cyanobacteria #microbiome communities is now out in the The ISME Journal!!! Excellent work by Andreja Kust and company, and collaboration with The Banfield Lab. tinyurl.com/3cs2x6r7

Congrats Bethany Kolody and team, out today in Science!! The phylocline decoded!! 🧬🌊

Congrats Andreja Kust and team!!! Capturing the complex microbiome of Cyanobacteria, allowing for ecologically-relevant studies in the lab!

Some archaea—an ancient group of microorganisms—have an entirely novel genetic code, according to a new study in Science. Their genetic code reassigns a DNA “stop” signal to incorporate the rare amino acid pyrrolysine into their proteins. The findings expand our understanding

Taxonomic and biosynthetic diversity of the marine actinomycete Salinispora across spatial scales journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…