“These newly described ultra-small bacteria are an example of a subset of the microbial life on earth that we know almost nothing about,” says Jill Banfield, a Senior Faculty Scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division and a UC Berkeley professor in the departments of Earth and Planetary Science and Environmental Science, Policy and Management.
For a study in Nature Communications, we teamed with longtime collaborator Jill Banfield and colleagues at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source to capture the first detailed microscopy images of ultra-small bacteria. Read the coverage in the Huffington Post, or check out the full release here.