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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 […]
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June 3, 2025
We are happy to welcome Michaela, who recently joined us as a PostDoc at the Cordero’s lab! She has a background in Chemical Engineering and will explore how changes in cellular function impact microbial community dynamics, applying her expertise in metabolic engineering, protein engineering, and synthetic biology. Wishing you a great start in PriME! […]
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May 5, 2025
Huge congratulations to Juanita 🥳! Juanita formally joined PriME in 2022 as a PhD student in Roman Stocker’s lab. Her project focused on investigating how bacteria can modulate changes in their physiology when they experience fluctuations in nutrient concentrations, a condition that closely mimic microbial environments. For this, she not only developed novel milli-fluidics […]
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May 1, 2025
Well done Shaelyn 👏! Shaelyn joined PriME in 2022 as a PhD student in Victoria Orphan’s lab. During these years she investigated how the spatial structures and functions of microbial communities drive their activities on diatom particles. She used activity-based techniques to explore microbial activity at the single-cell level on particles. She has recently […]
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March 7, 2025
In February and March, we held our regional PriME meetings in US and Europe! More than 20 members of our community gathered in LA and in Zurich respectively and engaged in workshops, group discussions, and presentations – fostering scientific exchange, networking, new ideas, and potential collaborations. Thank you to everyone who joined and contributed! We […]
