The Simons Collaboration on Principles of Microbial Ecosystems (PriME) elucidates the principles underpinning the self-organization, structure and function of microbial communities in the ocean.

Recent Publications

• Spatially structured microbial consortia and their role in food fermentations

  Michielsen S, Vercelli GT, Cordero OX, and Bachmann H

  Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 87:103102

• Microfluidic approaches in microbial ecology

  Ugolini GS, Wang M, Secchi E, Pioli R, Ackermann M, and Stocker R

  Lab Chip, 24, 1394-1418

• Swimming towards each other: the role of chemotaxis in bacterial interactions

  Seymour JR, Brumley DR, Stocker R, and Raina J-B

  Trends in Microbiology

• Direct observations of microbial community succession on sinking marine particles

  Stephens BM, Durkin CA, Sharpe G, Nguyen TTH, Albers J, Estapa ML, Steinberg DK, Levine NM, Gifford SM, Carlson CA, Boyd PW, and Santoro AE

  The ISME Journal, 18(1): 1-13