Earth and Planetary Science
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Banfield Laboratory
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Banfield retreat in Lake County, May 2019
Congratulations to Doctors Kantor, Brown, and Brooks!
Sue's going away lunch - December 2015
A reunion with Jill's first postdoc, Dr. Bill Barker, UW Madison (right) and Prof. John Valley - Nov. 2016
A reunion with Yohey Suzuki, John Moreau, and Clara Chan - July 2016
Banfield Lab camping trip July 2013 - Point Reyes National Seashore. Left to right: Susan Spaulding, Tyler Arbour, Bubba Brooks, Rose Kantor
Alexis Yelton, Brian Thomas, and Christine Sun - Graduation, May 2012
A party involving our group, friends, and some collaborators to celebrate graduations, exams passed, new members, and other achievements - June 2009
Dept of Plant and Microbiology Flag Day competition. We won!
(pictured: Karen, Chris, Bubba, Kyle and Anders)
Phil Bond, Jill Banfield and Matthias Labrenz at ISME, in Copenhagen, 2012
Brett Baker's going away party - August 2010
Reunited with Banfield Lab alumni at a conference - April 2019 Left to right: Chris Miller, Kelly Wrighton Jill Banfield, Mike Wilkins, Annika Mosier
Clara Chan's Ph.D. graduation party at McCone terrace: From left to right: Lina Brett, Gene, Eric, Ken, Vincent, Claudia, John Rachna, Javiera, Liz, Clara, Jill, Rachel
Jill and Clara
Lab members and collaborators after Claudia's exit seminar. Left to right: David Mangiante, Jill Banfield, Claudia Jones, Roland Burgmann, Michael Manga, Joanne Emerson, Shufen Ma - May 2011
Alexis Yelton, Jill Banfield and Christine Sun - Graduation, May 2012
Banfield alumni reunion in Denver, November 2014
Banfield Lab from summer 1998 (Left to right - top: Heng Zhang, Tom Gihring, Lee Penn, Anne Taunton, Katrina Edwards with Ania, Rich Casper. Front: Phil Bond, Wilma, Grace (Bond) and Yohey Suzuki)
Joanne Emerson PhD graduation (2012)
Banfield Winter Lab Retreat (2021)
Earth and Planetary Science Faculty Retreat - August 2013
Visiting former Banfield lab member, Scott Sitzman, November 2014
Rose and Jill with collaborator Sue Harrison (center) from University of Capetown, South Africa
Nanogeosciences working group meeting
Ryan Mueller's going away party - September 2011
Rose and a feathery collaborator in South Africa, 2013
Chris, Cindy and Jill and their genomes at the Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Subsurface Biogeochemical Research PI Meeting.
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Our research projects:
- A genome-resolved understanding of rice-paddy microbial communities and methane dynamics
- East River catchment in Crested Butte, CO
- mCAFE: Microbial community analysis and functional evaluation in soils
- Discovery of new microbial genes and pathways of utility for genome editing
- Cyanobacteria biogeography and strain variation
- Terrestrial deep subsurface biosphere in Japan
- Subsurface microbiology of Crystal Geyser
- Microbial diversity, metabolic potential, and roles in biogeochemical cycling in the terrestrial subsurface
- The Human microbiome
- Gut microbe origin and the environment
- Nanogeoscience
- Bioremediation of Thiocyanate
- Soil microbial carbon cycling
- Lake Tyrell - a hypersaline environment
- Acid mine drainage community study
Latest bioRxiv Listings
Using strain-resolved analysis to identify contamination in metagenomics data
Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements with the potential to augment methane oxidation
Huge and variable diversity of episymbiotic CPR bacteria and DPANN archaea in groundwater ecosystems
Targeted Genome Editing of Bacteria Within Microbial Communities
Banfield Laboratory Contact Information
University of California, Berkeley
Earth and Planetary Sciences Department
Innovative Genomics Institute Building
2151 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94720-5230
Contact: Jordan Hoff
Lab Manager
jhoff@berkeley.edu
Latest Publications
Species- and site-specific genome editing in complex bacterial communities
The rise of diversity in metabolic platforms across the Candidate Phyla Radiation
CRISPR-CasΦ from huge phages is a hypercompact genome editor
A scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V CRISPR-Cas System
The distinction of CPR bacteria from other bacteria based on protein family content
Clades of huge phages from across Earth’s ecosystems
Consistent Metagenome-Derived Metrics Verify and Delineate Bacterial Species Boundaries
Layer size polydispersity in hydrated montmorillonite creates multiscale porosity networks
Accurate and complete genomes from metagenomes
Niche differentiation is spatially and temporally regulated in the rhizosphere
