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

• Distantly related bacteria share a rigid proteome allocation strategy with flexible enzyme kinetics

  Zhu M, Mori M, Hwa T, and Xiongfeng D

  PNAS, 22(18): e2427091122

• Dynamic coexistence driven by physiological transitions in microbial communities

  Narla AV, Hwa T, and Murugan A

  PNAS, 122(16): e2405527122

• Clear as mud redefined: Tunable transparent mineral scaffolds for visualizing microbial processes below ground

  Quinn LK, Sharma K, Faber KT, and Orphan VJ

   

  PNAS Nexus, 4(5): pgaf118

• Biogel scavenging slows the sinking of organic particles to the ocean depths

  Alcolombri U, Nissan A,  Słomka J, Charlton S, Secchi E, Short I, Lee KS, Peaudecerf FJ, Baumgartner DA, Sichert A, Sauer U, Sengupta A, and Stocker R

  Nature Communications, 16:3290