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Click the cards below to view downloadable pdfs of previous Progress Reports from the Joint Genome Institute.  … FY20 Progress Report … FY19 …

Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, … how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he first needs their DNA.   …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ … fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

What grass is a prized ornamental and a bioenergy plant? Meet … and a potential fuel for the future. But, to be competitive in the market, both energy policy and Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology …

This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, …

Software engineers in the Synthetic Biology Informatics Group … develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software … and associated tools, which track samples through the JGI’s Synthetic Biology pipeline as well as provide process …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to …

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

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of … into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration with insights from Adam Healey and Xiao Ma. And Karen Serrano and Benjamin …

Kanwar spends part of his time assisting JGI users by processing their single cell samples using our high throughput …