The Simons Collaboration on Computational Biogeochemical Modeling of Marine Ecosystems (CBIOMES) seeks to develop and apply quantitative models of the structure and function of marine microbial communities at seasonal and basin scales.
Latest News
Ocean Chameleons: How phytoplankton adapt to light to conquer the world’s waters
CBIOMES researcher contributes to study demonstrating that pigment diversity in the cyanobacteria Synechococcus has enabled this organism to colonize all light environments. (more…)
Zooplankton Niche Divergence Across Ocean Basins
CBIOMES research challenges long-held assumption of niche conservatism in zooplankton populations. (more…)
Open Ocean Cyanobacteria Acclimation to Nitrogen and Iron Scarcity
Using sparse tensor decomposition, CBIOMES-SCOPE study reveals complex physiological responses of prominent cyanobacteria species to simultaneous nitrogen and iron scarcity. (more…)
2025 CBIOMES Annual Meeting
June 16 – 18, 2025 | The Simons Foundation | NYC
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Latest Publications
Aditya Mishra, Jesse McNichol, Jed Fuhrman, David Blei, Christian L. Müller (2025), Variational inference for microbiome survey data with application to global ocean data, ISME Communications, doi: 10.1093/ismeco/ycaf062
Stephen Blaskowski, Marie Roald, Paul M. Berube, Rogier Braakman, and E. Virginia Armbrust (2025), Simultaneous acclimation to nitrogen and iron scarcity in open ocean cyanobacteria revealed by sparse tensor decomposition of metatranscriptomes, Science Advances, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adr4310
Neill McGinty, A.J. Irwin (2025), Global Variation in Zooplankton Niche Divergence Across Ocean Basins, Ecol. Lett., doi: 10.1111/ele.70089
Francesco Mattei, Anna E. Hickman, Julia Uitz, Louison Dufour, Vincenzo Vellucci, Laurence Garczarek, Frédéric Partensky, Stephanie Dutkiewicz (2025), Chromatic acclimation shapes phytoplankton biogeography, Science Advances, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adr9609