Rekindle your love/hate for the early 2022 sensation, Wordle. This time it’s #AxialSeamount themed! Play the Axial Seamount Wordle every day to learn about our upcoming #protatax cruise 🌊🌋🦠🔬 #deepsea #ocean #microbes #explore #nsffunded #rstats sarah-k-hu.shinyapps.io/wordle-axial/

Come work with me! At the Institute for Genome Sciences in Baltimore, MD. Postdoc needed to study vaginal microbiomes and genital health outcomes. bit.ly/3cXxOx1 University of Maryland School of Medicine #genomics #AcademicTwitter #Bioinformatics #womenshealth #metagenomics #postdocjobs

Postdoc Opportunity! #idsogmtg

Postdoc Opportunity! #ISME18

Hi everyone, happy to share our discovery of an lineage of tiny bacteria associated with uncultivated, marine, pelagic choanoflagellates (the closest known living unicellular ancestor of animals):

awesome mags from awesome mats by Andreja Kust at poster 556 #isme18

🚨I’ll be joining TAMU Oceanography as an Assistant Prof January 2023!!! 💻🔬🥼🧪🦠🌊🌋🕸🍔 Continuing my quest to figure out what marine microeuks are up to in our oceans. Get in touch if you want to join 😁 #oceanography #tamu #deepsea #microbes #ocean #newPI #phd #phdchat

Jill Banfield and I are looking for a postdoc to work on hydrogen metabolism in subsurface microbial communities and hydrogenase function. The appointee will be based at UC Berkeley, USA, but also spend time at Monash University, Australia. Email us if interested. The Banfield Lab

Super excited to share my paper – the big project of my PhD – that looks at what happens to viruses during the magical moment in soil following the first rainfall after a long dry season. This was a big project w 🎗Ella Sieradzki 🐈🐕 The Banfield Lab Firestone Lab Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge Taga Lab 🧵

#cyanobacteria group is expanding! Come work on the amazing project with hundreds established cyanobacterial stable mixed communities who just needs someone to tackle into their interactions using engineering tools Institute for Geographic Information Science The Banfield Lab

Many years in the making... here is @luis_valentin26 et al.'s work on bacterial communities in biofilms from the local Alum Rock spring! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/🧵 I’m really excited to share our new pre-print on #AsgardArchaeaa manuscript now on #bioRxiv with co-first Katy Appler! We described soil-associated Asgard archaea predicted to be non-methanogenic acetogens. Kuddos to @val_deanda The Banfield Lab @MSchoelmerich

Excited to share our preprint on cyanobacterial communities and their core microbiome, with Spencer Diamond as corresponding author and incredible help from Jackie Zorz, Keith Bouma-Gregson, Catalina Cruañas Pániker, The Banfield Lab. #microbiome #Genomics #WomenInSTEM biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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:

Fresh off the virtual press – new work from @Tagalab with @Zhallberg! A little behind the scenes on the findings and makings of this project:

Red seaweed supplementation suppresses methanogenesis in the rumen, revealing potentially advantageous traits among hydrogenotrophic ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

1/2 Honored to share my journey as a first-gen scientist with Vivien Marx🐘📬⛅️ in @NatureMethods! Highlights: • The power of diversity in STEM • How perseverance overcomes doubts • The impact of mentorship & support Let's keep pushing for inclusive science! #DiversityInSTEM

My group (HessLab.com) is recruiting a new Junior Specialist to support our ongoing efforts in understanding and editing the rumen microbiome towards lower methane production. Please apply here before Dec 1st 2024 recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06793

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!

I’m very excited to finally share the results of a passion project that has been on my mind for nearly a decade. You can find the pre-print below, but what follows is the saga of how this project came to be: