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

• Stochastic resilience enables particle foraging in oligotrophic marine environments

  Fernandez VI, Blitvić N, Keegstra JM,and Stocker R

  PNAS, 123(11): e2508238123

• Bacterial iron acquisition by Escherichia coli is facilitated by amino acid complexation in a rapid-renewal environment

  Lara-Gutiérrez J, Nguyen J, McIlvin MR, Sugiyama I, Landry ZC, Alcolombri U, Pontrelli S, Jiménez-Martínez J, Sauer U, Hwa T, Keegstra JM, Saito MA, and Stocker R

  PNAS, 123(7): e2520431123

• 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