Banfield Lab News
2021
Congratulations to our two graduating PhD students: Alex Crits-Cristoph and Alex Jaffe!
Welcoming two new PhD candidates Jack Kim and Langlang Li!
2020
Professor Banfield received the 2020 H. C. Urey Award for her work in geobiology!
July 2018
Professor Banfield was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society! Read her profile on The Royal Society here
June 2017
Karthik Anantharaman has accepted an offer from the Department of Bacteriology at University of Wisconsin-Madison!
April 2017
Olm et al. made it to the cover of Genome Research! See the cover photo here, and read the article here
March 2017
Jill was interviewed by Cláudio Nunes-Alves in the q&a section of Nature Microbiology published March 28! Check it out here
January 2017
David Burstein has been offered a faculty position! Details TBA.
November 2016
Jill agreed to lead the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) microbiology initiative!
November 2016
The Hug et al. paper 'A new view of the tree of life' is featured in Discover Magazine's November issue as one of the top breakthroughs of 2016! It also made the list of the top 100 papers in terms of Altmetric score of 2016 at #79.
October 2016
Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system
September 2016
Dr. Alex Probst featured in an interview about Space X's humans-to-Mars plans. Showing the breadth of his knowledge with a couple memorable quotes.
April 2016
An article in the New York Times highlights Hug et al. paper 'A new view of the tree of life'!
August 2015
At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life.
June 2015
Newfound groups of bacteria are mixing up the tree of life.
May 2015
Jill is featured in a profile by The Joint Genome Institute.
April 2015
Longer DNA Fragments Reveal Rare Species Diversity - Banfield Lab research is highlighted in a Joint Genome Institute.
March 2015
Congratulations to incoming graduate student Alex Thomas, and rotation students Bailey Bonet and Alex Hernsdorf on receiving 2105 NSF Fellowships!
February 2015
Laura Hug, current postdoc, receives a position as Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo
February 2015
Banfield graduate student Karen Andrade's work with the Berkeley Science Shop is highlighted by the Blum Center.
January 2015
Alexander Probst, postdoc in the Banfield Lab, receives the Award for Oustanding Scientific Achievements during PhD Thesis from University of Regensburg, Germany for his recent PhD dissertation.
January 2015
Karthik Anantharaman, postdoc in the Banfield Lab, receives the John Dorr Graduate Academic Achievement Award at University of Michigan for his recent PhD dissertation.
September 2014
The Banfield Lab receives another CSP award from the Joint Genome Institute, to characterize tree-root microbial interactions.
January 2014
Microbenet blog post from Banfield Lab grad student Bubba Brooks, on gut colonization of premature infants.
January 2014
The newly-established Critical Zone Observatory in northern California's Eel River watershed includes researchers from the Banfield Lab.
November 2013
"Genomes from Metagenomics", a perspective in Science from Banfield Lab members
August 30, 2013
Banfield Lab work in subsurface metagenomics is highlighted by JGI.
September 27, 2012
Deep sequencing of uncultivated groundwater microbes elucidates community function in a bioremediation site.
May 2, 2011
Professor Banfield's work is described as she is awarded the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science for discovering the underlying principles of mineral formation and alteration by microbes.
March 18, 2011
Professor Banfield talks about her research at the awarding of the Women in Science Award.
November 9, 2010
Professor Jill Banfield recently received two prestigious awards for her groundbreaking work on how microbes alter rocks and interact with the natural world.
