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

• A Continuous Culture Millifluidic Device for the Study of Escherichia coli under Low and Fluctuating Nutrient Conditions

  Lara-Gutiérrez L, Lee KS, Nguyen J, Landry Z, Alcolombri U, Keegstra J, Jiménez-Martinéz J, and Stocker R

  JoVE, Biology

• The coccosphere of the heavy calcifying coccolithophore Coccolithus braarudii provides defense against bacteria

  Zweifel ST, Henshaw RJ, Pioli R, Martínez-Pérez C, Alcolombri U, Landry Z, and Stocker R

  Communications Biology

• Deep-sea anaerobic microbial communities couple degradation of insoluble chitin to extracellular electron transfer

  Yamini J, Guo Y, Connon S, Pontrelli S, Wu F, Schwartzman J, Lim S, Sauer U, Cordero OX, and Orphan VJ

  The ISME Journal

• Metabolic feedbacks drive population dynamics and can lead to oscillations among leaf bacteria

  Pacheco AR, Ugolini GS, Rüdisser SH, Zamuner A, Bortfeld-Miller M, Kiefer P, Oschmann F, Charlton SGV, Berger T, Redaelli T, Salazar MA, Dukovski I, van der Meer JR, Schubert OT, Ackermann M, Stocker R, and Vorholt JA

  Nature Communications, in press