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… ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep … to infect and destroy the host archaea – and how the  microbes resist. The battle waged below the Earth’s surface … burst. This action triggers subsurface carbon cycling, releasing fresh organic carbon which can serve as a food source …

… and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements … the interactions that happen between tiny organisms (microbes) located in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and … This work also received support from the Genomic Science Program in the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, …

… gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by researchers at the … pathways used by the filamentous fungus  Neurospora crassa, and to identify and decide on the order in which this … work was enabled in part through JGI’s Community Science Program through a proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA …

… sequencing technologies and computational methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a … small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, … Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, head of the  JGI Metagenome Program and senior author on the study elaborated on Nayfach’s …

… store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the …

… example, they showed that the composition of the community was similar across sequencing approaches, that species … between the analyzed community members. The Impact Though microbes help regulate the planet’s nutrient cycles and are … Robert Bowers , a JGI scientist within the Microbial Program, led the genomic analyses to compare the resulting …

Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome … leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the development of the virus and … analysis to better characterize how viruses infect soil microbes and influence how soil ecosystems function. He was …

… have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … of course, the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of … and in your data, and they’re probably influencing the microbes there,” said Simon Roux , the Viral Genomics Group …

… fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … it. The isotopes are incorporated into the DNA of specific microbes who consume the labeled food or water. Later, their … which microorganisms used the labeled substance and which microbes did not. This is normally an arduous wet lab …

… microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're …

The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and the data has been used to better understand arsenic mobility and to …

… samples around the world, resulting in a five-fold increase of RNA virus diversity. “The world of viruses around us … Computational Sieves to Filter Sequences There are more microbes on the planet than particles in a handful of dirt, and viruses vastly outnumber the microbes. Advances in sequencing technologies and …