Jillian F. Banfield

Research interests

Publications

• Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry

  Nature Reviews Microbiology · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-022-00695-z

• Programmed DNA destruction by miniature CRISPR-Cas14 enzymes

  Science · 2018 · 10.1126/science.aav4294

• Recovery of genomes from metagenomes via a dereplication, aggregation and scoring strategy

  Nature Microbiology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-018-0171-1

• Major New Microbial Groups Expand Diversity and Alter our Understanding of the Tree of Life

  Cell · 2018 · 10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.016

• Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

  Nature Biotechnology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3893

• dRep: a tool for fast and accurate genomic comparisons that enables improved genome recovery from metagenomes through de-replication

  The ISME Journal · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.126

• Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity

  Nature · 2017 · 10.1038/nature21031

• A new view of the tree of life

  Nature Microbiology · 2016 · 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.48

• Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system

  Nature Communications · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13219

• Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria

  Nature · 2015 · 10.1038/nature14486

• Crystallization by particle attachment in synthetic, biogenic, and geologic environments

  Science · 2015 · 10.1126/science.aaa6760

• Microbes in the neonatal intensive care unit resemble those found in the gut of premature infants

  Microbiome · 2014 · 10.1186/2049-2618-2-1

• Community genomic analyses constrain the distribution of metabolic traits across the Chloroflexi phylum and indicate roles in sediment carbon cycling

  Microbiome · 2013 · 10.1186/2049-2618-1-22

• Fermentation, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Metabolism in Multiple Uncultivated Bacterial Phyla

  Science · 2012 · 10.1126/science.1224041

• Direction-Specific Interactions Control Crystal Growth by Oriented Attachment

  Science · 2012 · 10.1126/science.1219643

• Nanoparticulate Iron Oxide Minerals in Soils and Sediments: Unique Properties and Contaminant Scavenging Mechanisms

  Journal of Nanoparticle Research · 2005 · 10.1007/s11051-005-6931-x

• Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment

  Nature · 2004 · 10.1038/nature02340

• Microbial communities in acid mine drainage

  FEMS Microbiology Ecology · 2003 · 10.1016/s0168-6496(03)00028-x

• Understanding Polymorphic Phase Transformation Behavior during Growth of Nanocrystalline Aggregates: Insights from TiO 2

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 2000 · 10.1021/jp000499j

• Formation of Sphalerite (ZnS) Deposits in Natural Biofilms of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

  Science · 2000 · 10.1126/science.290.5497.1744

• Aggregation-Based Crystal Growth and Microstructure Development in Natural Iron Oxyhydroxide Biomineralization Products

  Science · 2000 · 10.1126/science.289.5480.751

• Morphology development and crystal growth in nanocrystalline aggregates under hydrothermal conditions: insights from titania

  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 1999 · 10.1016/s0016-7037(99)00037-x

• Imperfect Oriented Attachment: Dislocation Generation in Defect-Free Nanocrystals

  Science · 1998 · 10.1126/science.281.5379.969

• Thermodynamic analysis of phase stability of nanocrystalline titania

  Journal of Materials Chemistry · 1998 · 10.1039/a802619j

• Particle size effects on transformation kinetics and phase stability in nanocrystalline TiO 2

  American Mineralogist · 1997 · 10.2138/am-1997-7-809

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