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
April 2025 CBIOMES e-meeting Shlomit Sharoni (MIT)
Biochemical remodeling of phytoplankton cell composition under climate change Please note access to this page is restricted to CBIOMES associates. (more…)
April 2025 CBIOMES e-meeting Stephen Blaskowski (UW)
Evidence of Antiphage Resistance and Defense in Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus Metatranscriptomes Please note access to this page is restricted to CBIOMES associates. (more…)
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…)
2025 CBIOMES Annual Meeting
June 16 – 18, 2025 | The Simons Foundation | NYC
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Latest Publications
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
Arianna I. Krinos, Sara K. Shapiro, Weixuan Li, Sheean T. Haley, Sonya T. Dyhrman, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Michael J. Follows, Harriet Alexander (2025), Intraspecific Diversity in Thermal Performance Determines Phytoplankton Ecological Niche, Ecology Letters, doi: 10.1111/ele.70055