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March 24, 2026
We say goodbye to Jonasz, a long-term member of the PriME community who has been part of the program since its early days. Jonasz has now started a new position as Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, where he will lead his Bioencounters lab. His research will explore contact-dependent interactions in microorganisms and beyond, […]
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March 9, 2026
On March 9, the PriME members in Zurich gathered at ETH for the PriME Mini-Symposium – an afternoon of scientific exchange, discussion, networking, and good vibes 🤗. The program featured interactive poster sessions as well as a review paper session dedicated to the collaborative PriME review articles currently in preparation. Coffee-fueled networking, a research picture […]
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January 15, 2026
Jeremy joined PriME as a PhD student in the Moran Lab, where he investigated marine bacterial community interactions using novel fitness and chemotaxis assays. He then moved to the West Coast as a Postdoc in the Orphan Lab, using diatom-generated phytoplankton aggregates as a model system to study the colonization dynamics of heterotrophic bacterial communities […]
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November 12, 2025
Richard Wolff has joined PriME this month as a Post-doctoral researcher in the Hwa lab at University of California, San Diego. Richard completed his PhD at UCLA, where he explored horizontal gene transfer and adaptive evolution in human-gut bacteria. In his current work, carried out in collaboration with the Kryazhimskiy Lab, he investigates how physiological […]
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November 5, 2025
We’re happy to welcome Eliane Ballmer, who joined PriME this month as a PhD student in the Stocker group. Eliane holds a background in Environmental Sciences with a specialization in Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics. Her scientific curiosity lies at the intersection of chemistry and microbiology — exploring how microbial processes shape the ocean’s carbon cycle […]
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November 3, 2025
We gathered once again in New York City from October 27–29, 2025, for three days of stimulating discussions, ideas, and collaboration at the Simons Foundation (SF). This year’s program featured four scientific sessions spanning behavior and metabolism, microbes on particles, community dynamics, and diatom–bacteria interactions, along with lively poster sessions showcasing ongoing and future research. […]
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August 11, 2025
PriME Dr. #5 in 2025 is Gabriel 🥳!! Gabriel joined PriME five years ago as a PhD student in Otto Codero’s lab. During his PhD he used genetic tools, computational models and microscopy to understand how metabolic constraints and microbial interactions shape the spatial organization of communities, and vice-versa. He has recently defended his thesis […]
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August 7, 2025
We’re happy to welcome Melanie Stäubli to PriME as a Postdoctoral researcher in the Levine group. Melanie is a microbial ecologist with a strong background in quantitative modeling, passionate about deciphering the eco‑evolutionary forces that shape microbial community dynamics. Her current research focuses on understanding how phycosphere interactions affect the dynamics of phytoplankton communities and […]
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July 8, 2025
Nittay joins us as a PostDoc in the Schubert/Ackermann lab after completing his PhD at the Hebrew University, where he explored how microbial interactions shape evolutionary outcomes. Within PriME, he will investigate how catabolic cascades emerge from species’ proteomic strategies, and what implications these strategies have for community responses to environmental changes. We’re looking forward […]
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June 23, 2025
🎓Congratulations to Margot on successfully defending her PhD “Environmental and structural drivers of algal glycan persistence in the ocean” under the supervision of Prof. Jan-Hendrick. She joined our network over 3 years ago and has been deeply engaged ever since. Thanks for your great contribution to PriME — we’re happy you’ll be staying with us […]
