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

• 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

• The ecology of bacterial attachment to phytoplankton

  Forget M, Müller O, and Stocker R

  Nature Microbiology

• Defining metabolic niches for marine microbial heterotrophs

  Reynolds RC, Weiss ACB, James CC, Kojima CY, Weissman JL, Thrash JC, and Levine MN

  Science Advances, 12: eadz0537

• A universal surface functionalization technique to chemically enhance live microbial cells

  Vercelli GT, Zhou X, Moreno-Gámez S, Jeeda RR, Gregor R, Słomka J, Dagadu A, Furst AL, and Cordero OX

  Molecular Systems Biology