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

• Genome-resolved biogeography of Phaeocystales, cosmopolitan bloom-forming algae

  Füssy Z, Lampe RH, Arrigo KR, et al., and Allen AE

  Nature Communications, 16:8559

• Structured interactions explain the absence of keystone species in synthetic microcosms

  Mizrahi SP, Lee H, Goyal A, Owen E, and Gore J

  The ISME Journal, 19(1): wraf211

• Molecular forecasting of domoic acid during a pervasive toxic diatom bloom

  Brunson JK, Thukral M, Ryan JP, et al., and Allen AE

  PNAS, 121(40): e2319177121

• Bacteria induce an amoeboid phase in coccolithophores that persists after bloom collapse

  Zweifel ST, Henshaw RJ, Müller O, Keegstra JM, Charlton SGV, Pioli R, Martínez-Pérez C, Alcolombri U, Clerc E, and Stocker R

  Science Advance, 11: eadw7280