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

• Slower swimming promotes chemotactic encounters between bacteria and small phytoplankton

  Foffi R, Brumley DR, Peaudecerf FJ, Stocker R, and Slomka J

  PNAS, 122(2): e2411074122

• Mechanistic Insights Into Post-Translational α-Keto-β-Amino Acid Formation by a Radical S-Adenosyl Methionine Peptide Splicease

  Vagstad, AL, Lakis E, Csizi K-S, Walls W, Richter D, Soo Lee K, Stocker R, Gugger M, Broderick WE, Broderick JB, Reiher M, and Piel J

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202418054

• A framework for understanding collective microbiome metabolism

  Matthias Hueslimann, Olga Schubert, and Martin Ackermann

  Nature Microbiology, 9: 3097–3109

• Polysaccharide breakdown products drive degradation-dispersal cycles of foraging bacteria through changes in metabolism and motility

  Stubbusch AKM, Keegstra JM, Schwartzman J, Pontrelli S, Clerc EE, Charlton S, Stocker R, Schubert OT, Ackermann M, and D’Souza GG

  eLife,13: RP9385