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

• Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities

  Stubbusch AKM, Peaudecerf F, Lee KS, Paoli L, Schwarzman J, Stocker R, Basler M, Schubert OT, Ackermann M, Magnabosco C, and D’Souza GG

  Science, 388 (6752): 1214-1217

• Chemotaxis, growth, and inter-species interactions shape early bacterial community assembly

  Clerc EE, Schreier JE, Słomka J, Smith CB, Fu H, Seymour JR, Raina J-B, Moran MA, and Stocker R

  The ISME Journal, 19(1): wraf101

• Risk–reward trade-off during carbon starvation generates dichotomy in motility endurance among marine bacteria

  Keegstra JM, Landry ZC, Zweifel ST, Roller BKR, Baumgartner DA, Carrara F, Martínez-Pérez C, Clerc EE, Ackermann M, and Stocker R

  Nature Microbiology, 10: 1393–1403

• Functional biogeography of marine microbial heterotrophs

  Zakem EJ, McNichol J, Weissman JL, Raut Y, Xu L, Halewood ER, Carlson CA, Dutkiewicz S, Fuhrman JA, and Levine NM

  Science, 388: eado5323