Simons Collaboration on Computational Biogeochemical Modeling of Marine Ecosystems
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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.
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CBIOMES researchers validating FCM‑anchored amplicon sequencing across ocean transects
Continue reading “A New Path to Absolute Abundances”
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
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We’re excited to welcome Fuhrman Lab grad student Natalia Shahril Ridza to the CBIOMES community. Continue reading “CBIOMES Welcomes Natalia Shahril Ridza”
New metagenomic method from the Fuhrman Lab illuminates ocean microbial life in unprecedented detail. Continue reading “Counting Ocean Microbes, One Genome at a Time”
Qicheng Bei, Nathan L. R. Williams, Laura E. Furtado, Daria Di Blasi, Jelani Williams, Vanda Brotas, Glen Tarran, Andrew P. Rees, Chris Bowler, Jed A. Fuhrman (2025), Quantitative metagenomics for marine prokaryotes and photosynthetic eukaryotes, ISME Communications, doi: 10.1093/ismeco/ycaf131
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In a cross-collaboration, multiple Simons Foundation-funded researchers team up to use genetic data and ecosystem modeling to simplify the complexity of marine microbes to improve climate predictions.
Continue reading “New Study Illuminates Invisible Architects of the Ocean’s Carbon Cycle”
A warm CBIOMES-welcome to the Fuhrman Group’s new Lab Manager Alexander Devaux. Continue reading “CBIOMES Welcomes Alexander Devaux”
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
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The CBIOMES Workshop on Modeling Primary Production was held from March 4 to 6, 2025, at the Simons Foundation in New York City. Continue reading “A Productive Meeting”