News & Publications

From USAID, crops grown on the farm of Davane Mesa Paulo. (Bita Rodriguez)

October 4, 2021

Anuvia taps JGI for expertise to pinpoint products from beneficial soil microbes

Anuvia, a small Florida business, is partnering with the JGI to help drive discoveries that will render new economic advantages for farmers concerned with improving sustainable soil management practices. [Read More]

Workflow for identifying viral sequences in most common sample types, a figure from their article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics.

September 29, 2021

Promoting the Power of Viral Metagenomics

JGI researchers summarized the field of viral metagenomics in an article for the journal Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science. [Read More]

In their approved proposal, Frederick Colwell of Oregon State University and colleagues are interested in the microbial communities that live on Alaska’s glacially dominated Copper River Delta. They’re looking at how the microbes in these high latitude wetlands, such as the Copper River Delta wetland pond shown here, cycle carbon. (Courtesy of Rick Colwell)

September 24, 2021

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems

The latest portfolio of proposals approved through the JGI’s annual Community Science Program (CSP) call. [Read More]

Image of biofilm with both Altiarchaea (blue) and viruses (red). (Victoria Turzynksi and Lea Griesdorn)

September 22, 2021

Plotting a Model for Virus-Host Warfare Deep Below Ground

Researchers describe how viruses repeatedly attempt to infect and destroy their hosts – and how the microbes resist. [Read More]