Area of research
Ecology · Molecular Biology
Research interest
Jill Banfield is Professor in the Departments of Earth and Planetary Science and Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. She is the Director of the Innovative Genomics Institute Microbiology Program and also has an appointment in the geochemistry group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her primary research interests are in microbial communities, and environmental microbiology, microbial, viral and phage diversity, and evolution. Her research group studies how microorganisms shape, and are shaped by, their natural environments. Her research group primarily uses cultivation-independent approaches such as metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and community proteomics to understand how microbial consortia interact with and are shaped by their environments, with implications for climate change research, agriculture and human health.
Multi-omics reveals nitrogen dynamics associated with soil microbial blooms during snowmelt.
Troubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes.
Reduced methane emissions in transgenic rice genotypes are associated with altered rhizosphere microbial hydrogen cycling.
Author Correction: Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes.
Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis
Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies
Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis.
Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies.
Structure of an archaeal ribosome reveals a divergent active site and hibernation factor.
Circular 23S rRNA within archaeal ribosomes
Overturning circulation structures the microbial functional landscape of the South Pacific
Diversity-driven biochemical survey reveals dimeric structural origin of rubisco
Convergent evolution of viral-like Borg archaeal extrachromosomal elements and giant eukaryotic viruses.
An archaeal genetic code with all TAG codons as pyrrolysine.
Overturning circulation structures the microbial functional seascape of the South Pacific.
Structure and evolution-guided design of minimal RNA-guided nucleases
Engineered orthogonal translation systems from metagenomic libraries expand the genetic code
COBRA improves the completeness and contiguity of viral genomes assembled from metagenomes.
Asgard archaea modulate potential methanogenesis substrates in wetland soil
CasPEDIA Database: a functional classification system for class 2 CRISPR-Cas enzymes.
A large colonial choanoflagellate from Mono Lake harbors live bacteria
Asgard archaea modulate potential methanogenesis substrates in wetland soil.
Autotrophic biofilms sustained by deeply sourced groundwater host diverse bacteria implicated in sulfur and hydrogen metabolism
Borg extrachromosomal elements of methane-oxidizing archaea have conserved and expressed genetic repertoires.
A large colonial choanoflagellate from Mono Lake harbors live bacteria.
Harnessing Fermentation May Enhance the Performance of Biological Sulfate-Reducing Bioreactors.
Methanotrophic Methanoperedens archaea host diverse and interacting extrachromosomal elements.
Reduced methane emissions in transgenic rice genotypes are associated with altered rhizosphere microbial hydrogen cycling
The active subset of grassland soil microbiomes changes with soil depth, water availability and prominently features predatory bacteria and episymbionts
Structure of an Archaeal Ribosome with a Divergent Active Site
Biotechnology of thiocyanate degradation: an exploration using meta-omics tools to understand the microbial communities responsible for remediation of mining wastewater
Materials World Network: Particle-Mediated Control Over Crystallization: From the Pre-Nucleation Stage to the Final Crystal
The mechanism of fumarate photoreduction on zinc sulfide nanoparticles
Comprehensive Genomic Analysis of Salt-impacted Microbial Communities in their Environmental Context
BE/GEN-EN: Analysis of Factors Determining the Ecological Function and Resilience of Microbial Communities
Microbial Observatories: Collaborative Research: A Cold Microbial Observatory: Collaborative Research in an Alaskan Boreal Forest Soil
Collaborative Research: NIRT: Surface Reactivity of Nanocrystalline Oxides and Oxyhydroxides: Implications for Processes in the Environment
Biogeochemical Weathering Controls on Soil Formation and Landscape Development
Crystal Growth and Phase Transformation Kinetics in Nanocrystalline Materials
Biogeochemical Weathering of Layer Silicates
Chemical and Bacterial Reactions at the Surfaces of Environmentally-Important Metal Sulfide Minerals: Linking Atomic and Field Scales
The Role of Surface Properties in the Behavior of Finely-Crystalline Materials
Natural and Experimental Weathering of Pyroxenes and Pyroxenoids
TEM Studies of Weathering Reactions: The Importance of Mineral Structure, Microstructure and Composition
Miscibility, Microstructure, and Magnetic Properties of Ulvoespinel - Magnetite