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

• Risk–reward trade-off during carbon starvation generates dichotomy in motility endurance among marine bacteria

  Keegstra JM, Landry ZC, Zweifel ST, Roller BKR, Baumgartner DA, Carrara F, Martínez-Pérez C, Clerc EE, Ackermann M, and Stocker R

  Nature Microbiology

• Functional biogeography of marine microbial heterotrophs

  Zakem EJ, McNichol J, Weissman JL, Raut Y, Xu L, Halewood ER, Carlson CA, Dutkiewicz S, Fuhrman JA, and Levine NM

  Science, 388: eado5323

• Distantly related bacteria share a rigid proteome allocation strategy with flexible enzyme kinetics

  Zhu M, Mori M, Hwa T, and Xiongfeng D

  PNAS, 22(18): e2427091122

• Dynamic coexistence driven by physiological transitions in microbial communities

  Narla AV, Hwa T, and Murugan A

  PNAS, 122(16): e2405527122