Spencer Diamond

🥳🥳 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

Our friends at the Hess Lab are actively looking for postdoctoral researchers interested in anerobic microbiology, and studying the rumen microbiome. #microbiologists #bioinformatics #microbiomes Check out their website: hesslab.com

Defining the ecological strategies of phytoplankton associated bacteria nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨 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/advance-…

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Really fantastic paper on plasmid copy number control. Environmental plasmids are critical and surprisingly understudied tools for microbial community editing and manipulation #plasmids #microbiology nature.com/articles/s4146…

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Nice post by @hoperhenderson marking the 10th anniversary of Jennifer Doudna's Innovative Genomics Institute (formerly of this platform): innovativegenomics.org/news/igi-10-ye…

A very nice summary of methane emissions from livestock and how we as scientists are trying to mitigate them. #science #climatechange #microbiology #climateforeducation knowablemagazine.org/content/articl…

Was so excited to speak at #insideigi about our @TheAudaciousPrj team's work on enteric methane mitigation. Thank you @igisci team for putting this wonderful event together innovativegenomics.org/news/inside-ig…

Alternative agar substitutes for culturing unculturable microorganisms link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Stoked to introduce our collaboration with @therubinlab and @Dr__Diamond to revolutionize microbiome gene editing! ✨

The SplitsTree App: interactive analysis and visualization using phylogenetic trees and networks | Nature Methods nature.com/articles/s4159…

Cows produce large amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas responsible for 30 percent of global warming. Using tools that snip and transfer DNA, researchers plan to genetically engineer microbes in the cow stomach to eliminate those emissions. wapo.st/4e0R1It

Check out this article in the @washingtonpost about our work in @TheHessLab and @ErmiasKebreab Lab at @ucdavisCAES in collaboration with @DoudnaJennifer @Dr__Diamond @BanfieldJill and others at @igisci to reduce enteric methane by editing the rumen microbiome.

I’m really excited to share our new pre-print “Functional protein mining with conformal guarantees”, with @SeyoneC @ml_angelopoulos @PeterHYoon Michael Jordan @doudna_lab biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵

What’s next for Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna and @igisci? 🧬

Check out this video that explains the importance and some details of the work that is currently underway at the @TheHessLab and the Lab of @ErmiasKebreab at @ucdavis and the @igisci at @UCBerkeley to reduce methane emissions from cattle. ow.ly/VKQ050SlatZ

COBRA, a method for joining viral contigs in metagenomic assembly, significantly improves accuracy and completeness, leading to more reliable analysis of gene content, diversity, and evolution @ChenLinxing @BanfieldJill nature.com/articles/s4156…