Jill Banfield

Diverse virus-encoded CRISPR-Cas systems include streamlined genome editors.

Basem Al-Shayeb, Petr Skopintsev, Katarzyna M Soczek, Elizabeth C Stahl, Zheng Li, Evan Groover, Dylan Smock, Amy R Eggers, Patrick Pausch, Brady F Cress, Carolyn J Huang, Brian Staskawicz, David F Savage, Steven E Jacobsen, Jillian F Banfield, Jennifer A Doudna

Journal article  |  2022  |  Cell

CRISPR-Cas systems are host-encoded pathways that protect microbes from viral infection using an adaptive RNA-guided mechanism. Us..

Conserved and lineage-specific hypothetical proteins may have played a central role in the rise and diversification of major archaeal groups.

Raphaël Méheust, Cindy J Castelle, Alexander L Jaffe, Jillian F Banfield

Journal article  |  2022  |  BMC Biol

BACKGROUND: Archaea play fundamental roles in the environment, for example by methane production and consumption, ammonia oxidatio..

Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry.

Noah W Sokol, Eric Slessarev, Gianna L Marschmann, Alexa Nicolas, Steven J Blazewicz, Eoin L Brodie, Mary K Firestone, Megan M Foley, Rachel Hestrin, Bruce A Hungate, Benjamin J Koch, Bram W Stone, Matthew B Sullivan, Olivier Zablocki, undefined LLNL Soil Microbiome Consortium, Jennifer Pett-Ridge

Journal article  |  2022  |  Nat Rev Microbiol

Soil microorganisms shape global element cycles in life and death. Living soil microorganisms are a major engine of terrestrial bi..

Widespread stop-codon recoding in bacteriophages may regulate translation of lytic genes.

Adair L Borges, Yue Clare Lou, Rohan Sachdeva, Basem Al-Shayeb, Petar I Penev, Alexander L Jaffe, Shufei Lei, Joanne M Santini, Jillian F Banfield

Journal article  |  2022  |  Nat Microbiol

Bacteriophages (phages) are obligate parasites that use host bacterial translation machinery to produce viral proteins. However, s..

Soils and sediments host Thermoplasmata archaea encoding novel copper membrane monooxygenases (CuMMOs).

Spencer Diamond, Adi Lavy, Alexander Crits-Christoph, Paula B Matheus Carnevali, Allison Sharrar, Kenneth H Williams, Jillian F Banfield

Journal article  |  2022  |  ISME J

Copper membrane monooxygenases (CuMMOs) play critical roles in the global carbon and nitrogen cycles. Organisms harboring these en..

From legacy contamination to watershed systems science: a review of scientific insights and technologies developed through DOE-supported research in water and energy security

Dipankar Dwivedi, Carl Steefel, Bhavna Arora, Jill Banfield, John Bargar, Maxim Boyanov, Scott C Brooks, Xingyuan Chen, Susan S Hubbard, Dan Kaplan, Kenneth M Kemner, Peter S Nico, Edward J O'Loughlin, Eric M Pierce, Scott L Painter, Timothy D Scheibe, Haruko M Wainwright, Kenneth H Williams, Mavrik Zavarin

Journal article  |  2022  |  ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Water resources, including groundwater and prominent rivers worldwide, are under duress because of excessive contaminant and nutri..

Detection and enumeration of Lak megaphages in microbiome samples by endpoint and quantitative PCR.

Marco A Crisci, Paula M Corsini, Nicola Bordin, Lin-Xing Chen, Jillain F Banfield, Joanne M Santini

Journal article  |  2022  |  STAR Protoc

Lak megaphages are prevalent across diverse gut microbiomes and may potentially impact animal and human health through lysis of Pr..

Alum Addition Triggers Hypoxia in an Engineered Pit Lake.

Gerdhard L Jessen, Lin-Xing Chen, Jiro F Mori, Tara E Colenbrander Nelson, Gregory F Slater, Matthew BJ Lindsay, Jillian F Banfield, Lesley A Warren

Journal article  |  2022  |  Microorganisms

Here, we examine the geobiological response to a whole-lake alum (aluminum sulfate) treatment (2016) of Base Mine Lake (BML), the ..

Polytypism in semi-disordered lizardite and amesite by low-dose HAADF-STEM

H Zhang, P Zarzycki, B Gilbert, JF Banfield

Journal article  |  2022  |  American Mineralogist

Serpentine minerals exert important controls on the physical properties of ultramafic rocks and have the potential to influence de..

Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery.

Robert C Edgar, Jeff Taylor, Victor Lin, Tomer Altman, Pierre Barbera, Dmitry Meleshko, Dan Lohr, Gherman Novakovsky, Benjamin Buchfink, Basem Al-Shayeb, Jillian F Banfield, Marcos de la Peña, Anton Korobeynikov, Rayan Chikhi, Artem Babaian

Journal article  |  2022  |  Nature

Public databases contain a planetary collection of nucleic acid sequences, but their systematic exploration has been inhibited by ..