This crazy rabbit hole of a project just came out! We started out with a new technology and a tonne of noisy data, and as we dug deeper and deeper unearthed a tonne of biology. Itai Yanai Peien Jiang @MagdaPodkowik A few big-picture take-homes: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Just shared at Keystone Symposia a new @ArcInstitute discovery of the bridge RNA recombinase mechanism: a new class of natural RNA-guided systems that retains the key property of programmability from RNAi and CRISPR while enabling large-scale genome design beyond RNA and DNA cuts

Nearly 20 years ago, Jill Banfield, Gene Tyson & team transformed #microbiology with their seminal paper on genome-resolved metagenomics. Their innovative approach in reconstructing microbial genomes opened new frontiers in understanding ecosystem dynamics! Read paper here:

happy to share this 'quick guide' the Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria out today in Current Biology its purpose is to be a plain language summary of all the great recent work in this space, with a few key papers for reference. cell.com/current-biolog…

COBRA🐍 is finally out. Thank all the Banfielders The Banfield Lab for their help and especially Jill Jill Banfield for all the huge supports. ❤️

Happy to share our new work studying viral diversity, ecology, & evolution over long-time scales. We track 1.3 million viral genomes over 20 yrs to study viral interactions, ecological dynamics, & evolutionary trajectories. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Dive into our lab’s first peer-reviewed publication—co-led with our friends Ben Adler and Muntathar Al-Shimary from the Doudna lab! If you’ve already read the preprint, don’t miss the new updates: doi.org/10.1038/s41564… Nature Microbiology

A prevalent huge phage clade in human and animal gut microbiomes biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio