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

• Phosphate deprivation restricts bacterial degradation of the marine polysaccharide fucoidan

  Xu Y, Gu B, Yao H, Schultz-Johansen M, Wilkie I, Klau LJ, Chen Y, Orellana LH, Aachmann FL, Farhan M, Reintjes G, Vidal-Melgosa S, Qiao D, Cao Y, and Hehemann J-H

  Nature Microbiology

• Relationships between phytoplankton pigments and DNA- or RNA-based abundances support ecological applications

  Lampe, RH, Rabines AJ, Wood-Rocca SM, Schulberg A, Goericke R, Venepally P, Zheng H, Stukel MR, Landry MR, Barton AD, and Allen AE

  Biogeosciences, 22: 6787–6810

• Genome-resolved biogeography of Phaeocystales, cosmopolitan bloom-forming algae

  Füssy Z, Lampe RH, Arrigo KR, et al., and Allen AE

  Nature Communications, 16:8559

• Structured interactions explain the absence of keystone species in synthetic microcosms

  Mizrahi SP, Lee H, Goyal A, Owen E, and Gore J

  The ISME Journal, 19(1): wraf211