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

• Microbial dietary preference and interactions affect the export of lipids to the deep ocean

  Behrendt L, Alcolombri, U, Hunter JE, Smriga S, Mincer T, Lowenstein DP, Yawata Y, Peaudecerf FJ, Fernandez VI, Fredricks HF, Almblad H, Harrison JJ, Stocker R, and Van Mooy BAS

  Science, 385:1182

• Yessotoxin production and aerosolization during the unprecedented red tide of 2020 in southern California

  Ternon, E, Carter ML, Cancelada L, Lampe RH, Allen AE, Anderson CR, Prather KA, and Gerwick WH

  Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11(1): 00021

• 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