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July 20, 2021

Otto X. Cordero Explores the Relationships Within Microbial Communities

A portrait photo of Otto X. Cordero, a bald man with a short beard and a dark blue collared shirt.

May 04, 2021

Seven Simons-Supported Researchers Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

January 31, 2020

Sea Life You Can’t See: The Beauty of Ocean Microbes Revealed

Microbial Model: Even CBIOMES’ simplified models of ocean microbial life can generate extraordinary complexity. Here, a machine-learning tool has distilled one model’s output into a three-dimensional representation of the abundance of 51 types of microbes. Each colored streak represents a different ocean province with a consistent phytoplankton community

October 24, 2019

Watch: How SCOPE Discovers the Secret Life of Ocean Microbes

scientists retrieving water samples

September 17, 2019

A Data Infrastructure for Autism Discovery

network gene map

August 13, 2019

Probing the Ocean’s Microbial Ecosystem

scientists at CBIOMES meeting

May 07, 2019

2019 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Announced

A microbial community around a marine diatom (in white). Motile bacteria (their tracks are in blue) accumulate near the diatom to utilise organic matter leaking from it.

January 29, 2019

SCOPE Investigators Sonya Dyhrman and Joshua Weitz Elected to American Academy of Microbiology, ASM

Side by side portrait photos of Sonya Dyhrman and Joshua Weitz