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

• Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities

  Henderson A, Del Panta A, Schubert OT, Mitri S, and van Vliet S

  npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 11: 32

• Microbial Ecology to Ocean Carbon Cycling: From Genomes to Numerical Models

  Levine N, Alexander H, Bertrand EM, Coles VJ, Dutkiewicz S, Leles SG, and Zakem EJ

  Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 53

• 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, 64(6): e202418054

• 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