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

• Biogel scavenging slows the sinking of organic particles to the ocean depths

  Alcolombri U, Nissan A,  Słomka J, Charlton S, Secchi E, Short I, Lee KS, Peaudecerf FJ, Baumgartner DA, Sichert A, Sauer U, Sengupta A, and Stocker R

  Nature Communications, 16:3290

• Replicating community dynamics reveals how initial composition shapes the functional outcomes of bacterial communities

  Pascual-García A, Rivett DW, Jones Matt Lloyd, and Bell T

  Nature Communications, 16:3002

• Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities

  Henderson A, Del Panta A, Schubert OT, Mitri S, and van Vliet S

  npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 11: 32

• Microbial Ecology to Ocean Carbon Cycling: From Genomes to Numerical Models

  Levine N, Alexander H, Bertrand EM, Coles VJ, Dutkiewicz S, Leles SG, and Zakem EJ

  Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 53