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

• Community level signatures of ecological succession in natural bacterial communinties.

  Pascual-García, A. and Bell, T.

  Nature Commun., 11(1), 1-11

• Elongation enhances encounter rates between phytoplankton in turbulence

  Argueidas-Leiva J-A., Slomka J., Lalescu C.C., Wilczek M.

  PNAS, 119 (32): e2203191119

• Strain-level diversity drives alternative community types in millimetre-scale granular biofilms

  Leventhal GE, Boix C, Kuechler U, Enke TN, Sliwerska E, Holliger C, Cordero OX

  Nat Microbiol 3: 1295–1303