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

• 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

• Mechanism of bacterial predation via ixotrophy

  Lien T-W, Amendola D, Lee KS, Bartlau N, Xu J, Furusawa G, Polz MF, Stocker R, Weiss GL, and Pilhofer M

  Science, 386: 6719

• Endemic, cosmopolitan, and generalist taxa and their habitat affinities within a coastal marine microbiome

  James CC, Allen AE, Lampe R, Rabines A, and Barton AD

  Scientific Reports, 14: 22408

• Microbial dietary preference and interactions affect the export of lipids to the deep ocean

  Behrendt L, Alcolombri, U, Hunter JE, Smriga S, Mincer T, Lowenstein DP, Yawata Y, Peaudecerf FJ, Fernandez VI, Fredricks HF, Almblad H, Harrison JJ, Stocker R, and Van Mooy BAS

  Science, 385:1182