Got a groundbreaking idea in marine microbiology? Come pursue it with us! Fulbright offers fellowships for U.S. postdocs to conduct research at Hebrew University for up to 20 months. Open to all disciplines. Let’s connect! 🌊🧫 🔗 fulbright.org.il/program/2/4645

I am hiring a research/technical specialist/manager to help us make the most out of new LC-MS instrumentation at USC! Please share the word and write me for more details. usc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Congratulations Glen 🥳and to all former and current PriME members who contributed to this manuscript 🤗👏

‼️I'm looking for postdoc‼️Join effort using metagenomes to quantify microbial catabolic potential and carbon substrate availability at the ecosystem level. We seek to understand evolutionary forces shaping the C cycle. Part of ccomp-stc.org careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie…

New funding opportunity: We are providing support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. Deadline is 7/31: simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-g… #science

Save the date: Swiss Microbiomes Forum 2026 📅6 Feb | 📍EPFL Lausanne 🎟️ Free & open to all Join researchers, industry & innovators exploring the future of microbiome science. Details coming soon. Get a glimpse of what’s ahead: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… #Microbiomes #SMF2026

❓How do #marinebacteria navigate and compete for #phytoplankton-derived organic matter hotspots — and what happens when their microbial neighbors 🦠tag along❓ Check out this exciting PriME collaborative work, just published in The ISME Journal! 😃👏👇 academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

🎓Congrats to Margot Margot Bligh (she/her) Jan-Hendrik Hehemann lab on successfully defending her PhD “Environmental and structural drivers of algal glycan persistence in the ocean” 🥳 Thanks for your great contribution to PriME — we’re happy you’ll be staying with us a little longer! 😃

We welcome our new team member Nittay Meroz who recently joined us as a PostDoc 😃. He’ll be investigating how catabolic cascades emerge from species’ proteomic strategies — and how these shape community responses to environmental changes 🌍 Nice to have you aboard, Nittay! 🙌

Funded postdoc + PhD opportunities in marine microbial ecology! Please share with folks that might be interested. Start date is flexible (fall 2025 to summer 2026) More about the lab + applying (Postdoc rolling, PhD apps due Oct/Jan): sites.google.com/uncc.edu/micro…

🚨 Looking to mentor a postdoc applicant for the 2026 Walder Foundation Biota Fellowship! Project: microbes, nutrients in the MS River. 💵 $70k–$73.5k/yr 🔬 Aquatic micro, biogeochem, metagenomics? Let’s talk! Info here: biotaawards.org/2026-applicati… #MicrobialEcology #BiotaFellowship

The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution awards. Deadline is 10/16: simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/04/sim… #science #ecology #evolution

🎉Excited to welcome Melanie Stäubli Naomi in our network! As a microbial ecologist with a flair for quantitative modeling, she studies how phycosphere interactions shape phytoplankton dynamics and impact marine carbon cycling. Great to have you on board, Melanie! 🌊🔬

Congratulations to all from the PriME network 😀👏

PriME Dr. #5 in 2025 is Gabriel from the Otto X. Cordero lab! He successfully defended his thesis "Shaping Function Through Space: The Role of Spatial Organization in Microbial Communities" 🧑‍🎓🥳 Thank you Gabriel for your collaborative spirit and contribution to our community 🦠🌊🤗

❓What if microbes share not just small metabolites, but also complex molecules that shape community assembly? 🦠 Sammy Pontrelli and co-authors explored this question in a new collaborative PriME study 😃 Learn more about it 👇 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

The degradation of complex macromolecules in the ocean is only possible when microbes work together. An emergent division of labor controls a key process in the carbon cycle. Latest preprint with the Andi Sichert and the Sauer lab. 🔗 tinyurl.com/n49kv89w

❓How do microbes that can’t make their own vitamins survive in the ocean? 🌊🦠 In this new paper, Rachel Gregor and fellow PriME members uncover the role of B vitamin auxotrophies in microbial communities. 👇Check it out 😀 academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

Congratulations to all authors, including our PriME fellows 🤗

And finally, I am proud to be able to share the work of my dear student Gabriel Vercelli and a collaboration with my (also dear) MIT colleague Ariel Furst Ariel Furst. This technology can open new avenues for microbiome engineering. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…