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

• Alteromonas macleodii breaches the diatom frustule triggering protoplast emergence and programmed necrosis-like death in Thalassiosira rotula

  Short I, Martínez-Pérez C, Miravet-Verde S, Sunagawa S, Stocker R, and Alcolombri U

  Nature Communications, in press

• An ecological perspective on functional redundancy and robustness in microbial communities

  Weiss AS, Lee MNY, Schubert OT, and Ackermann M

  Current Opinion in Microbiology, 94:102827

• Synergistic degradation of fucoidans in the ocean

  Sichert A, Pollak S, Priest T, Goyal A, Miravet-Verde S, Sunagawa S, Cordero OX, and Sauer U

  Nature

• Life out of equilibrium: Rethinking how we quantify and model marine microbial phenotypes

  Leles SG, James C, Buck-Wiese H, and Levine NM

  Cell Host & Microbe, 34(8): 1499-1503