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.
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A New Path to Absolute Abundances
CBIOMES researchers validating FCM‑anchored amplicon sequencing across ocean transects (more…)
Stirring the Gyre: How ocean mixing sustains hidden diversity
Linking microbial populations to the histories of the water they inhabit, a new CBIOMES study demonstrates how mesoscale stirring regulates phytoplankton diversity in the subtropical gyre. (more…)
CBIOMES ’26
Reporting by Helen Hill for CBIOMES News This year’s CBIOMES Annual Meeting was an opportunity for consolidation as the collaboration nears its tenth and final year. The CBIOMES 2026 Annual...
Latest Publications
Ashley N. Bulseco, Wenzhuo Yang, Julie A. Huber, Joseph J. Vallino (2026), Growth characteristics of natural microbial populations are skewed toward bacteria with low specific growth rates, Microbiology Spectrum, doi: 10.1128/spectrum.02193-26
Davor Mance, Diana Mance, Žarko Kovač, Shubha Sathyendranath, Anja Kovač (2026), The production-function structure of marine primary-production models: Marginal products, elasticities, and light–nutrient trade-offs, Journal of Marine Systems, doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2026.104275
Sing-how Tuo, Ying-Yu Hu, Andrew J. Irwin, Michael J. Follows, Zoe V. Finkel (2026), Phosphate modulates elemental and macromolecular composition of unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, Limnology and Oceanography, doi: 10.1002/lno.70475
Alexandra E. Jones-Kellett, Jesse C. McNichol, Yubin Raut, Jed A. Fuhrman, and Michael J. Follows (2026), The dynamic mesoscale sink and source niches for eukaryotic phytoplankton in a subtropical gyre, PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2608700123?af=R