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

• 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

• Stochastic resilience enables particle foraging in oligotrophic marine environments

  Fernandez VI, Blitvić N, Keegstra JM,and Stocker R

  PNAS, 123(11): e2508238123