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
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…)
Modeling the Microbial Give‑and‑Take
A new modeling framework developed by CBIOMES researchers, MCoM 1.0, reveals how metabolic exchanges shape the structure and function of marine microbial communities. (more…)
A New Path to Absolute Abundances
CBIOMES researchers validating FCM‑anchored amplicon sequencing across ocean transects (more…)
Latest Publications
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
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