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SUMMARY:Crick Lecture 2023: Innovating metagenomics to explore the strange
  world of archaeal extrachromosomal elements - Jill Banfield\, University 
 of California\, Berkeley
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CONTACT:Scientific Meetings Co-ordinator
DESCRIPTION:Metagenomic methods have brought to light huge\, diverse\, lin
 ear extrachromosomal elements of Archaea that are referred to as Borgs\, g
 iven their propensity to assimilate DNA from diverse organisms. Borgs clea
 rly replicate in anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea yet cannot easily be 
 classified as either viruses or plasmids. We are applying new short read g
 enome curation methods\, long-read sequencing information and in silico st
 ructural biology tools to comprehensively define their genomes and uncover
  functions in their enigmatic proteomes. The findings indicate unexpected\
 , highly replicated capacities that alter our perception of these strange\
 , and likely biogeochemically important\, entities.
LOCATION:In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoo
 m\, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96751041497?pwd=SDgyU1NMdjFV
 dENscUZqams4Z1RWUT09 
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