Lizzy Wilbanks
@lizzywilbanks.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ UC Santa Barbara
Marine microbes, multicellularity, metagenomics
Marine microbes, multicellularity, metagenomics
Congrats to @quantaofgeorge.bsky.social for being awarded best postdoc talk NeLLi symposium for his phenomenal work on the first successful cultivation of Thiovulum. Mind blowing collective behaviors by the fastest organism per body length on the planet!
Abstracts are due Oct. 19 for the 2025 New Lineages of Life Symposium — 80 slots available!
See speakers below.
More info: jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us...
Full Agenda: jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us...
@axelvisel.bsky.social 🖥️🧬
See speakers below.
More info: jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us...
Full Agenda: jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us...
@axelvisel.bsky.social 🖥️🧬
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Congrats to @quantaofgeorge.bsky.social for being awarded best postdoc talk NeLLi symposium for his phenomenal work on the first successful cultivation of Thiovulum. Mind blowing collective behaviors by the fastest organism per body length on the planet!
This. Is. So. Cool. 🤯
We're thrilled to announce SeqHub, an AI-enabled platform for biological sequence analysis. SeqHub brings together sequence search, genome annotation, and data sharing in one place.
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This. Is. So. Cool. 🤯
Reposted by Lizzy Wilbanks
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
Reposted by Lizzy Wilbanks
📣The #EMBOWorkshop hosted by @multicellgenome.bsky.social Lab has begun!
🔬Three days filled with talks from international experts exploring the #evolution and origins of #multicellularity🦠🧬
#Multicellverse #UnravellingEvolution #DiscoveringLife
🔬Three days filled with talks from international experts exploring the #evolution and origins of #multicellularity🦠🧬
#Multicellverse #UnravellingEvolution #DiscoveringLife
October 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📣The #EMBOWorkshop hosted by @multicellgenome.bsky.social Lab has begun!
🔬Three days filled with talks from international experts exploring the #evolution and origins of #multicellularity🦠🧬
#Multicellverse #UnravellingEvolution #DiscoveringLife
🔬Three days filled with talks from international experts exploring the #evolution and origins of #multicellularity🦠🧬
#Multicellverse #UnravellingEvolution #DiscoveringLife
Reposted by Lizzy Wilbanks
Preprint out for myloasm, our new nanopore / HiFi metagenome assembler!
Nanopore's getting accurate, but
1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies?
2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them?
with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social
1 / N
Nanopore's getting accurate, but
1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies?
2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them?
with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social
1 / N
High-resolution metagenome assembly for modern long reads with myloasm https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674543v1
September 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Preprint out for myloasm, our new nanopore / HiFi metagenome assembler!
Nanopore's getting accurate, but
1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies?
2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them?
with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social
1 / N
Nanopore's getting accurate, but
1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies?
2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them?
with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social
1 / N
Reposted by Lizzy Wilbanks
High-resolution metagenome assembly for modern long reads with myloasm www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
September 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
High-resolution metagenome assembly for modern long reads with myloasm www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
Reposted by Lizzy Wilbanks
Contact‐dependent iron uptake from dust revealed by elemental analysis of single Trichodesmium colonies aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs
September 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Contact‐dependent iron uptake from dust revealed by elemental analysis of single Trichodesmium colonies aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs
My postdoc Emily Junkins giving talk on her exciting project looking at CRISPR evolution with strain level resolution in uncultivated consortia. So proud of her amazing work on this project!
Join us today at #PacBio booth #1023 for in-booth presentations at #ASMicrobe.
Topics include wastewater pathogen detection, gut microbiome testing, and marine microbial defense strategies. Talks run from 3:00 and 4:00 PDT.
More details here: bit.ly/3ZfnBkT
Topics include wastewater pathogen detection, gut microbiome testing, and marine microbial defense strategies. Talks run from 3:00 and 4:00 PDT.
More details here: bit.ly/3ZfnBkT
June 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
My postdoc Emily Junkins giving talk on her exciting project looking at CRISPR evolution with strain level resolution in uncultivated consortia. So proud of her amazing work on this project!
My #ASMicrobe fomo not so bad because I’m SO proud of the work my lab is presenting there :)) check out Biobraulio.bsky.social
EEB Poster 4244 for his sneak preview on his amazing thesis.
EEB Poster 4244 for his sneak preview on his amazing thesis.
biobraulio.bsky.social
Grad student at UCSB!
Biobraulio.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
My #ASMicrobe fomo not so bad because I’m SO proud of the work my lab is presenting there :)) check out Biobraulio.bsky.social
EEB Poster 4244 for his sneak preview on his amazing thesis.
EEB Poster 4244 for his sneak preview on his amazing thesis.