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

• Mechanistic constraints on the trade-off between photosynthesis and respiration in response to warming

  Leles SG and Levine NM

  Science Advances, 9(35)

• Genome content predicts the carbon catabolic preferences of heterotrophic bacteria

  Gralka M, Pollak S, and Cordero OX

  Nature Microbiology

• Identification of microbial metabolic functional guilds from large genomic dataset

  Reynolds R, Hyun S, Tully B, Bien J, and Levine NM

  Frontiers in Microbiology, 14:1197329

• Stress-induced metabolic exchanges between complementary bacterial types underly a dynamic mechanism of inter-species stress resistance

  Amarnath K, Narla AV, Pontrelli S, Dong J, Reddan J, Taylor BR, Caglar T, Schwartzman J, Sauer U, Cordero OX, and Hwa T

  Nature Communications, 14:3165