Former postdoc at @BanfieldLab @UCBerkeley
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🚨 Fresh from the press! We created and analyzed over 100 in vitro cyanobacterial consortia using well-characterized model cyanobacterial hosts to better understand how cyanobacteria recruit and interact with their microbiomes.
Check it out: academic.oup.com/ismej/advan…
🥳🥳 Our paper using #metagenomics to explore the core species of stable #cyanobacteria #microbiome communities is now out in the @ISMEJournal!!! Excellent work by @AndrejaKust and company, and collaboration with @BanfieldLab.
tinyurl.com/3cs2x6r7
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🦠⚔️ Phages fight back.
We analyzed >50k DNA phage genomes from soil, marine & human gut to map the viral "counter-defensome". Counter-defenses varied with family, host range, habitat & geography, and some were found in giant DNA viruses.
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🚨 Fresh from the press! We created and analyzed over 100 in vitro cyanobacterial consortia using well-characterized model cyanobacterial hosts to better understand how cyanobacteria recruit and interact with their microbiomes.
Check it out: academic.oup.com/ismej/advan…
🥳🥳 Our paper using #metagenomics to explore the core species of stable #cyanobacteria #microbiome communities is now out in the @ISMEJournal!!! Excellent work by @AndrejaKust and company, and collaboration with @BanfieldLab.
tinyurl.com/3cs2x6r7
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This framework offers a controlled yet ecologically relevant platform for studying microbial dynamics in freshwater systems and unraveling phototroph–heterotroph interactions.
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This work wouldn’t have been possible without the leadership of @Dr__Diamond and the incredible teamwork of @jkzorz, @K_BoumaGregson, @catacruanas, and support of everyone at @BanfieldLab — thank you!
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Just like your best friends at school who are always with you, certain tiny creatures always stick with some blue-green bacteria, no matter where they came from or what kind they are.
Model cyanobacterial consortia reveal a consistent core microbiome independent of inoculation source or cyanobacterial host species biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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Excited to share our preprint on cyanobacterial communities and their core microbiome, with @Dr__Diamond as corresponding author and incredible help from @jkzorz, @K_BoumaGregson, @catacruanas, @BanfieldLab. #microbiome #Genomics #WomenInSTEM
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(3/4) We defined 25 species as part of the core microbiome, out of over 500 species identified in the study. Excitingly, 80% (20/25) encoded anoxygenic photosystems among other functions with implications for cooperative microbial behavior.
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🚨 New preprint: #phage strain colonization dynamics in infant gut #microbiomes🧵
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Check out our new preprint led by @ChenLinxing on COBRA, for improving viral genome assembly from metagenomes: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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1. Borgs with active nanowires ⛓️ and a constellation of mini-Borgs, viruses, plasmids and mysterious elements circling the mothership of methane-oxidizing archaea! 🚀
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wooohooo! you go Lingdong!
Methane-oxidizing Methanoperedens archaea surprisingly host a constellation of Borgs, mini-Borgs, viruses, plasmids, and other mysterious extrachromosomal elements!
Wonder what they are doing? Check our preprints here:
tinyurl.com/yc48fhd7 tinyurl.com/bdcv576d
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Here @BanfieldLab used #nanopore sequencing to study 'the nature and existence of enigmatic genetic elements' (Borgs) in soil. They assembled 7 new curated Borg genomes, revealing extensive DNA methylation that differentiates them from their host archaea, Methanoperedens. 🧵1/2
Borg extrachromosomal elements of methane-oxidizing archaea have conserved and expressed genetic repertoires biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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