Jill Banfield
Professor of Environmental Science Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley
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Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California Berkeley
How are inorganic and biological processes interconnected? Inorganic and biologically-mediated processes shape the geochemistry and mineralogy of the Earth's surface. We study how microorganisms impact the form and distribution of minerals in the environment and the biogeochemical cycling of Fe, As, U, Zn, S, and P. Topics: 1) sulfide mineral dissolution and formation of acid mine drainage (microbial bioleaching); 2) soil formation; 3) bioremediation of metal contamination; 4) astrobiology and extremophiles: acidic and hypersaline environments Because microbial activity often results in the formation of minerals with sizes in the few nanometer diameter range, a significant research focus in our group involves study of the nanoparticles.
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CZO Publications
Papers/Books
2020
Clades of huge phages from across Earth’s ecosystems. Al-Shayeb, B., R. Sachdeva, L.-X. Chen, F. Ward, P. Munk, A. Devoto, C. J. Castelle, M. R. Olm, K. Bouma-Gregson, Y. Amano, C. He, R. Meheust, B. Brooks, A. Thomas, A. Lavy, P. Matheus-Carnevali, C. Sun, D. S. A. Goltsman, M. A. Borton, A. Sharrar, A. L. Jaffe, T. C. Nelson, R. Kantor, R. Keren, K. R. Lane, I. F. Farag, S. Lei, K. Finstad, R. Amundson, K. Anantharaman, J. Zhou, A. J. Probst, M. E. Power, S. G. Tringe, W.-J. Li, K. Wrighton, S. Harrison, M. Morowitz, D. A. Relman, J. A. Doudna, A.-C. Lehours, L. Warren, J. H. D. Cate, J. M. Santini, and J. F. Banfield. (2020): Nature 578, 425–431
2020
Bacterial Secondary Metabolite Biosynthetic Potential in Soil Varies with Phylum, Depth, and Vegetation Type. Sharrar, A.M., Crits-Christoph, A., Méheust, R., Diamond, S., Starr, E.P., and Banfield, J.F. (2020): mBio 11 (3): e00416-20
2019
Impacts of microbial assemblage and environmental conditions on the distribution of anatoxin-a producing cyanobacteria within a river network. Bouma-Gregson, K., Olm, M.R., Probst, A.J., Anantharaman, K., Power, M.E., & Banfield, J.F. (2019): The ISME Journal
2019
Mediterranean grassland soil C–N compound turnover is dependent on rainfall and depth, and is mediated by genomically divergent microorganisms. Diamond, S., Andeer, P.F., Li, Z., Crits-Christoph, A., Burstein, D., Anantharaman, A., Lane, K.R., Thomas, B.C., Pan, C., Northen, T.R., and Banfield, J.F. (2019): Nature Microbiology 4: 1356–1367
2018
Novel soil bacteria possess diverse genes for secondary metabolite biosynthesis . Crits-Christoph, A., Diamond, S., Butterfield, C.N., Thomas, B.C., and J. F. Banfield (2018): Nature 558: 440–444
2012
Effect of rainfall-induced soil geochemistry dynamics on grassland soil microbial communities. Cruz-Martínez, K, A Rosling, Y Zhang, M Song, GL Andersen, JF Banfield (2012): Applied Environmental Microbiology, V.78 (21):7587
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
Other CZO Publications
2013
The Eel River Critical Zone Observatory: exploring how the critical zone will mediate watershed currencies and ecosystem response in a changing environment. Dietrich, WE, JK Bishop, SM Carlson, ME Power, and S Thompson (2013): NSF Proposal
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