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

• Deep-sea anaerobic microbial communities couple degradation of insoluble chitin to extracellular electron transfer

  Yamini J, Guo Y, Connon S, Pontrelli S, Wu F, Schwartzman J, Lim S, Sauer U, Cordero OX, and Orphan VJ

  The ISME Journal

• Metabolic feedbacks drive population dynamics and can lead to oscillations among leaf bacteria

  Pacheco AR, Ugolini GS, Rüdisser SH, Zamuner A, Bortfeld-Miller M, Kiefer P, Oschmann F, Charlton SGV, Berger T, Redaelli T, Salazar MA, Dukovski I, van der Meer JR, Schubert OT, Ackermann M, Stocker R, and Vorholt JA

  Nature Communications, in press

• The ecology of bacterial attachment to phytoplankton

  Forget M, Müller O, and Stocker R

  Nature Microbiology, 11: 1180–1192.

• Defining metabolic niches for marine microbial heterotrophs

  Reynolds RC, Weiss ACB, James CC, Kojima CY, Weissman JL, Thrash JC, and Levine MN

  Science Advances, 12: eadz0537