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.
Upcoming Meeting
2026 Annual Meeting (restricted)
June 15 – 17, 2026 | NYC
Latest News
Shubha Sathyendranath Awarded 2026 Nansen Polar Bear Award
Warm congratulations to PML CBIOMES PI on news of her recent award. (more…)
May 2026 CBIOMES e-meeting Christopher Follett (Liverpool University, UK)
Chris introduces his Scholar project: "Space, Time, and Plankton Prediction" Please note access to this page is restricted to CBIOMES associates. (more…)
May 2026 CBIOMES e-meeting Tobias Friedrich (UH)
Decomposing the Island Mass Effect of the Main Hawaiian Islands. Please note access to this page is restricted to CBIOMES associates. (more…)
Latest Publications
Luo, E., Pham, N.D., Rogers, T.J. et al. (2026), Quantitative stable isotope probing (qSIP)-informed metagenomics identifies viruses infecting chemoautotrophs, Nat Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-71833-x [Vallino]
Leonhard Lücken, Michael J. Follows, Jason G. Bragg, and Sinikka T. Lennartz (2026), The microbial community model MCoM 1.0: a scalable framework for modelling phototroph heterotrophic interactions in diverse microbial communities, Geosci. Model Dev., doi: 10.5194/gmd-19-2461-2026
Nathan L. R. Williams, Qicheng Bei, Yubin Raut, Jed A Fuhrman (2026), Converting Relative Amplicon Abundances to Absolute Abundances via Flow Cytometry: Metagenomic Validation and Application to Long Ocean Transects, ISME Communications, doi: 10.1093/ismeco/ycag081
Shlomit Sharoni, Keisuke Inomura, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Oliver Jahn, Zoe V. Finkel, Andrew Irwin, Mohammad M. Amirian, Erwan Monier & Michael J. Follows (2026), Biochemical remodelling of phytoplankton cell composition under climate change, Nat. Clim. Chang., doi: 10.1038/s41558-026-02598-w