Jillian F. Banfield

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Direct collaborators. Node size = influence, colour = community, dashed = past collaboration.

• Jumbo circular extrachromosomal elements of methane-oxidizing archaea with variably extensive metabolic and defense gene repertoires

  Nature Communications · 2026-06-23

• Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes

  UNC Libraries · 2026-06-18

• Author Correction: Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes

  UNC Libraries · 2026-06-18

• Hydration-controlled twist forms a moiré glass in charge-frustrated layered silicates

  ArXiv.org · 2026-06-16

• Hydration-controlled twist forms a moiré glass in charge-frustrated layered silicatesPreprint

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026-06-16

• Microbial inoculation accelerates post-fire soil recovery in a mixed conifer forest

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026-06-13

• Structure and evolution-guided design of minimal RNA-guided nucleases

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-12-08

• Convergent evolution of viral-like Borg archaeal extrachromosomal elements and giant eukaryotic viruses

  Nature Communications · 2025-11-27 · 2 citations

• An archaeal genetic code with all TAG codons as pyrrolysine

  Science · 2025-11-20 · 7 citations

• Diversity-driven biochemical survey reveals dimeric structural origin of rubiscoPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-11-05 · 2 citations

• Structure of an archaeal ribosome reveals a divergent active site and hibernation factor

  Nature Microbiology · 2025-07-17 · 10 citations

• Overturning circulation structures the microbial functional seascape of the South Pacific

  Science · 2025-07-10 · 3 citations

• Phage-based microbiome manipulation elucidates interactions within community contextPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-06-21 · 1 citations

• Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies

  Nature Microbiology · 2025-06-20 · 81 citations

• Metagenome-Derived CRISPR-Cas12a Mining and Characterization

  The CRISPR Journal · 2025-05-21 · 3 citations

• Circular 23S rRNA within archaeal ribosomesPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-04-27 · 2 citations

• Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis

  Nature Plants · 2025-04-22 · 75 citations

• Overturning circulation structures the microbial functional landscape of the South PacificPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-01-13 · 1 citations

• Spatial and Ecological Drivers of Grassland Soil Viral Communities and Their Biogeochemical Implications

  2025-01-01

• Extensive and diverse lanthanide-dependent metabolism in the ocean

  The ISME Journal · 2025-01-01 · 9 citations