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

• Molecular Mechanisms for Iron Uptake and Homeostasis in Marine Eukaryotic Phytoplankton

  Lampe RH, Coale TH, McQuaid JB, and Allen AE

  Annual Review of Microbiology

• Space, the final frontier: The spatial component of phytoplankton–bacterial interactions

  Martínez-Pérez C, Zweifel ST, Pioli R, and Stocker R

  Molecular Microbiology

• Marine bacteria Alteromonas spp. require UDP-glucose-4-epimerase for aggregation and production of sticky exopolymer

  Robertson JM, Garza EA, Stubbusch AKM, Dupont CL, HWA T, and Held NA

  mBio

• Heterotrophic bacteria trigger transcriptome remodelling in the photosynthetic picoeukaryote Micromonas commoda

  Hamilton M, Ferrer-González FX, and Moran MA

  Environmental Microbiology Report, 16: e13285