A collaboration @SimonsFdn which investigates the principles underpinning the self-organization, structure, and function of #microbial communities in the #ocean
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We gladly introduce PriME, an international and interdisciplinary collaboration which aims to derive fundamental principles of how microbial ecosystems assemble and function, with a primary focus on #marinemicrobes and #carboncycling 🦠🌊
Stay tuned!👀
10 years of science, collaboration and shared experiences! 🌊🔬
At the recent Annual Meeting, we celebrated what we’ve achieved—and looked ahead to the exciting work still to come as projects and connections will continue.
Thank you @SimonsFdn for making this journey possible!
How does a bacterium breach a diatom’s glass-like shell? 🦠
New PriME work in @NatureComms shows how A. macleodii triggers cell death in T. rotula—with consequences for ocean carbon cycling.
Congratulations to Isobel Short and team! 👏
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-7…
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"I did not need to disguise the constraints of my career to prove I was a devoted mother, just as I do not need to disguise the demands of motherhood to prove I am a serious scientist." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4xUARcY
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When does having a microbial “backup” actually make a community more robust? 🦠
A new review from PriME and @NCCRMicrobiomes by Anna Weiss 👏and colleagues takes an ecological look at functional redundancy 👇
doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2026.1…
After 8 wonderful years with PriME, Johannes Keegstra is moving to @QMUL as a Royal Society Newton International Fellow 👏
Thank you for your science, ideas, support and humour—and for all you brought to our community!
See what Johannes is up to next:
aquaticmicrobes.org/
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New KITP summer program: Phenotypic Heterogeneity & Collective Behavior in Biofilms — summer 2027 at UCSB.
Weeks of seminars, blackboard sessions, and time to think. Apply: kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/bio…
Congratulations 👏to PriME members Hagen Buck-Wiese and Naomi Levine on this publication, in which they call for moving beyond “optimal” phenotypes measured under fixed conditions to capture microbial plasticity in a changing ocean. 🌊🦠
Life out of equilibrium: Rethinking how we quantify & model marine microbial phenotypes
Forum examines marine microbial physiology,arguing for quantification of phenotypic plasticity to ID strategies across environments ¶meterize biogeochemical models
cell.com/cell-host-microbe/a…
Congratulations to the whole PriME crew 😃
Excited to share our latest paper in @Nature, featuring the fantastic work of Andi Sichert. A systems ecology approach to understanding how microbial communities digest complex carbohydrates in the ocean:
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Welcome to PriME, McKenzie @microbe__mom! 🎉
McKenzie has joined the Moran Lab, where she studies interactions between marine phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria — and how they shape organic matter cycling in the ocean 🌊🦠
Great to have you with us! 🤗
Congratulations to Yamini @iitbyamini and many other PriME alumni and current members, for this new study 👏😃
Check out the paper to learn more about this deep-sea PriME microbial teamwork 🤗👇
Deep-sea anaerobic microbial communities couple degradation of insoluble chitin to extracellular electron transfer academic.oup.com/ismej/advan…
Congratulations to Harish on successfully defending his PhD thesis, "Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Bacterial Colony Development" 👏🎉👨🎓
He'll be heading in the fall to the University of Chicago as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
All the best for this exciting new chapter! 🍀🚀
❓Can we predict ocean carbon cycling by looking at what microbes do rather than who they are?🌊
During his PhD in PriME, Ryan Reynolds explored this question by combining global metagenomic with metabolic modeling 😀
Check out his last publication 👇
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
🌊 Are bacterial attachments to phytoplankton just microscopic travel companions — or a key driver of marine ecosystem functioning? 🦠
PriME alumnus Mathieu Forget explores this question in a new review 👏👇
nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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We're hiring a new postdoc! Are you experienced in genetically modifying non-model microbes? Do you have experience in leading a molecular level project, possibly dealing with metabolism? Then this is perfect for you!
jobs.vib.be/j/134563/postdoc…
Congratulations to Astrid Stubbusch for receiving the Prix Schläfli 2026 in Biology for her outstanding PhD work made in PriME 😉 👏😃🦠
Amazing achievement, Astrid — so well deserved!
scnat.ch/en/awards/schlaefli…
Welcome to PriME, Dieter! 🎉
Dieter joins the Orphan Lab @OrphanANME as a Postdoc, working at the interface of microbiology, biophysics & fluid dynamics to study microbial interactions and processes like marine snow formation 🦠🌊
Great to have you on board 🤗!
It's time to say goodbye to @JonaszSlomka — a PriME member since the early days 👏
He will start his own #bioencounters lab at the University of Warsaw, exploring microbial interactions at the physics–biology interface 🦠.
All the best for this exciting new chapter! 🚀
PriME members in Zurich gathered last week for the PriME Mini-Symposium!
Interactive poster sessions, review paper discussions, and plenty of networking made for a lively afternoon of science and collaboration 🤗
Thanks to everyone who joined! 🌊🦠
Most marine bacteria never find a food particle. Some do—and that’s enough 😉
A PriME team uncovers stochastic resilience: rare, high-reward encounters sustain bacterial populations in nutrient-poor oceans.🌊🦠
Out now in @PNASNews !
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
🔥Hot off the press!
❓ How do bacteria get iron when nutrients are scarce and constantly washed away❓
A PriME collective effort reveals—using a new continuous culture device—how bacteria acquire iron under rapid nutrient renewal, beyond #siderophores.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
