Daan Speth @daanspeth.bsky.social Computational microbiologist. Senior scientist at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at.
Microbial ecology, mostly of nitrogen cycle microbes, and data driven physiology.
Maintainer of the GlobDB genome database https://globdb.org
Luis Zaman @luiszaman.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at University of Michigan in Complex Systems and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. We study coevolution with phage and self-replicating computer programs!
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Christine He @christinehe.bsky.social Bioinformatics and data science at Ansa Biotechnologies 🧬
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social Washington, D.C.
Morten Kam Dahl Dueholm @mkddueholm.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. Aalborg University 🇩🇰 Applied microbial ecology with focus on wastewater treatment, anaerobic digestion, and soil. HQ MAGs, transcriptomics, rRNA operon sequencing, culturomics, biofilms, EPS, and functional amyloids.
Ben J Woodcroft @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social Yet another microbial bioinformatician, group leader, dad
github.com/wwood https://research.qut.edu.au/cmr/team/ben-woodcroft/
Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social Engineer by day | Nature & landscape photographer | Birds, bugs, spiders | Friend of animals that scare people | Be decent & kind | she / her | IG heyjencross
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Luke Hillary @lukehillary.bsky.social Genomics & qPCR surveillance of soils, sludge & sewage 🏞️💩😷 | RNA viruses, AMR genes & mobile elements in environmental microbiomes | Research Fellow @bangor.ac.uk | Building the evidence base for wastewater-informed public health in Wales 🏴
Vertebrate Genomes Project @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social The Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) aims to generate error-free genome assemblies for all 70,000 vertebrate species, offering a powerful resource to advance research in biology, genomics, conservation, medicine, and bioinformatics.
Hugh Cottingham @hughcottingham.bsky.social Microbial genomics | Computational biology
Located at the University Hospital Freiburg
Emma Waters @emmabeansworth.bsky.social LGBTQ+ genome scientist, microbiologist... give me a cool genome structure & I am happy! Proud member of @langridgelab.bsky.social & creator of #WhatIsAScientist exhibition
Anna (Ganna) Kovalenko @annakovalenko.bsky.social Postdoc at UC Irvine & member of ARTIC Network🦠🧬🕵️♀️ #genomicSurveillance #genomicEpidemiology #microbialGenomics #OneHealth
Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social Molecular virologist, sewage sage and wastewater wizard.
https://lung.fish
Marc Johnson
Professor
Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social Director of EMBL-EBI. I have an insatiable love of biology. Consultant to ONT and Cantata (Dovetail)
Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social Assoc Prof @CSUSM | 🦠⇄🦠 MGEs & coastal metagenomes | #BlueSoup 🥣🧬 🧫 | R1→Biotech→PUI | Protective mama bear of students | She/Her
Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social Taking over the world one microbe at a time.
Taking myself not too seriously.
Breah LaSarre @blasarre.bsky.social Molecular microbiologist intrigued by all things bacteria.🧫🦠🌱🪲🧬🧪Research Scientist. Current focus: genetics, ecology, and evolution of bacterial plant pathogens. Opinions expressed are solely my own.
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Jim Shaw @jimshaw.bsky.social Postdoc at Dana-Farber and Harvard Med with Heng Li (@lh3lh3.bsky.social). Prev: UBC / UofT.
I like thinking about biological sequence analysis and its applications to metagenomics / microbial genomics.
https://jim-shaw-bluenote.github.io
Sean Eddy @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu Professor of Computational Predictive Medicine, University of Helsinki. Posts about genomics, returning to academia after 10 years in industry, and the great outdoors.
Rasmus Kirkegaard @kirk3gaard.bsky.social Staff scientist having fun with DNA seq and bioinformatics at #AlbertsenLAB
Oscar Torres @oscart32.bsky.social Research fellow in clinical metagenomics at University College London
Rosemary Sinclair Dokos @rsinclairdokos.bsky.social Chief Product and Marketing Officer @nanopore
Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us FIeld guide. Quartermaster. Associate Professor and Research Dean at UVA School of Data Science. Views my own.
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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social Virologist, comparative virus/host interactions of HIV, Flu, Ebola and SARS CoV-2
Unashamed fan of loud shouty music. Not left-wing, not right-wing, not too fond of historical or present day fascists.
Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social Husband, Father, Grandfather, Datahound, Dog lover, Fan of Celtic music, Former NIGMS director, Former EiC of Science, Stand Up for Science advisor, Shananigator, Pittsburgh, PA
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social
Bram Bloemen @brbloemen.bsky.social PhD student @ Sciensano, the Belgian National Institute of Health
Jim Smoot, PhD @jcsmoot.bsky.social Dad, husband, aquatic microbiologist, farm owner at the nexus of climate change and sustainable resource recovery. “This machine kills fascists”—Woody Guthrie
Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org Evangelist for the study of evolution in action by everyone.
Pitt Prof | ASM President|EvolvingSTEM | biofilms | EvMed | genomics entrepreneur (@SeqCoast.bsky.social, @midauthorbio.bsky.social)| exercise addict ~ swim bike run
The Banfield Lab @banfieldlab.bsky.social Located at the University of California-Berkeley at the Innovative Genomics Institute.
Purveyors of Microbial Ecology, Bioinformatics, & Nanogeoscience.
Reposts or likes≠endorsements.
https://www.banfieldlab.com/
Gaëtan Benoit @gaetanbenoit.bsky.social Postdoc researcher in bioinformatics at Pasteur institute. Scalable methods and software for metagenomics. https://github.com/GaetanBenoitDev
Florian Trigodet @floriantrigodet.bsky.social Computational microbiologist. Senior scientist at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Oldenburg.
Working in Meren lab.
Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social Professor, USC Marine and Environmental Biology, microbe hunter. Dad, husband. he/him. Not a bot. thethrashlab.com @the.thrash.lab
Tiphaine Le Roy 🦠 @titicaccae.bsky.social Research Scientist at Sorbonne Université / INSERM 🇫🇷 • Gut Microbiome • Small Intestine • Obesity & Metabolic diseases • new PI 😱 • 🐁🦠🧫💩- L Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social Associate Professor
DFCI & HMS
@schinnappan.bsky.social @schinnappan.bsky.social
Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social Computational microbiologist
I like to post about: microbial genomics, microbial ecology, evolution, micro+plant biotechnology, climate, symbiosis, virology, ag, sci publishing and policy
Chris Seymour @iiseymour.bsky.social Software, Hardware, Machine Learning Inference.
Zymo Research @zymoresearch.bsky.social
Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social Virologist - Influenza and Coronaviruses
Graham Wiley @gbw42.bsky.social A tall, sturdy creature fond of industry and DNA sequencing.
Rasmus Marvig @marvig.bsky.social Computational biologist specialising in infectious disease genomics
Migle Gabrielaite @mgabrielaite.bsky.social Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Postdoc at Vilnius University 🇱🇹 | Previously Rigshospitalet & University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰 | Bioinformatician 🧑💻 | Exploring bacterial evolution & transmission 🦠 | Toddler mom 🧒
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu We’re the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. We aim to strengthen EU’s defences vs infectious diseases. Here to promote public health.
Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social Prof & Assoc Director of Genomics @UCDavis Genome Center. Neurogenetics, evolution/function of gene duplications, human, zebrafish. Posts my own. #firstgen #jogger (mee-gun)
http://dennislab.org
Pathoplexus @pathoplexus.org An open-source pathogen sequence database dedicated to equitable sharing, transparent governance, & empowering global public health.
pathoplexus.org
Institute of Microbiology and Infection @imibirmingham.bsky.social The Institute of Microbiology and Infection within the University of Birmingham is home to world-class research, from model-organism biology to translational bacteriology
Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social Microbiology, microbiome, antimicrobial resistance. Sometimes UK politics. Head of Research of the School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, University of Birmingham. Also Co-Director of @target-amr.bsky.social.
Jack Ferguson @jackf7.bsky.social Dad. Virologist. Assistant Professor.
Yorkshireman lost in the midlands.
Random thoughts on science, sports & gundogs.
Will do science for grant funding.
Views my own.
Lucy Crouch @lucyicm.bsky.social 🦠Scientist 🧪loves gut microbes and CAZymes.
Sir Henry Dale fellow at the IMI, University of Birmingham.
Michelle Buckner @bucknerlab.bsky.social Associate Professor of AMR at U of Birmingham. Interested in exploring how bacteria share resistance genes and how we can prevent this from occurring
Robin May @robinmay9.bsky.social Professor at University of Birmingham, UK and Gresham College. Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Food Standards Agency. Views very much my own (and occasionally someone else's too).
Megan McDonald @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social Research fellow @UoB, interested in all things fungi and plants
Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social Microbiology PhD student @ Uni of Birmingham, specialising in bacteriophage, AMR and the gut microbiome. Award winning disability campaigner 🏳️🌈 #ActuallyAutistic, #ADHD, she/her.
biolucy.co.uk
David Cleary @bacterioskeptic.bsky.social Scientist (pathogen genomics). Husband, dad, music miserablist and egg chasing.
Jo Rhodes @drjorhodes.com Yoga bunny. Cake guru. Scientist by day. Assistant Professor at @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Interested in fungal ‘omics and One Health, evolutionary biology and popgen, epidemiology and promoting women in STEM
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Laura Hollis @laurahollis.bsky.social PhD Microbiology & Infection graduate, UoB | 🏳️🌈
Marine C. Cambon @marccamb.bsky.social Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham 🇬🇧 working on synthetic communities of the oak microbiota and Acute Oak Decline 🌳🦠🍄🟫. She/her 🇫🇷
James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social Prof. of microbial ecology at the University of Birmingham.
Decoding the tree microbiome 🌳🌲. He/him
Lisa Lamberte @lisalamberte.bsky.social Research Fellow | University of Birmingham | Microbiomes | AMR | Bacteria - Fungi Interactions & Evolution | views my own | 🇵🇭 living in 🇬🇧 | Siya/She/Her
Grainger Lab @graingerlab.bsky.social Bacterial chromosome biology, gene expression, pathogenicity... and football.
www.graingerlab.com
Hung-Ji Tsai @hjtsai.bsky.social Genome dynamics, drug resistance and host-fungal co-evolution at the University of Birmingham. 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇬🇧
Tsai Lab: https://sites.google.com/view/tsailab
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Jeannie Mounger, PhD @genejeannie.bsky.social Seattle-based plant biologist and field applications scientist. Rare earth element. Genomics enthusiast. Views my own. she/her
Erwin Sentausa @sentausa.bsky.social Bioinformatician, microbial genomics, high-throughput sequencing data analysis. Also on https://x.com/sentausa- A Anna Maria Niewiadomska @amnbio.bsky.social Science, infectious disease, virology, public health, molecular biology, genomics, bioinformatics. Opinions are my own.
Christian Gallardo @gallardo-seq.bsky.social Long read sequencing of RNA viruses and their hosts | RNA structure-function | Genomics technology development | Genomics assay R&D | Scripps Research 🎓 | 🇦🇷 🇺🇸 | Senior Scientist at @TwistBioscience.com
Ian Godwin @thegodwinexx.bsky.social Professor in crop biotechnology at UQ; love all types of football especially AFL. Perpetual searcher for the world’s finest beer.
Human Pangenome Reference Consortium @humanpangenome.bsky.social Diverse Human References Drive Genomic Discoveries for Everyone
Sean McKenzie @dorylophile.bsky.social
Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist 🦋
Assistant Professor, Uppsala University
https://www.montejo-kovacevich-lab.com
Charley Yen, PhD @eugeniecyen.bsky.social Postdoc @QMUL @UMassAmherst applying genomics and epigenomics for sea turtle conservation 🌊🐢🧬 previously @CamZoology 🦋 she/her
Andrew Page @andrewjpage.bsky.social Microbial Bioinformatics scientist. Host the MicroBinfie and The Bioinformatics Lab Podcasts. CTO at Origin Sciences
Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social Die Virenjägerin! 🏹🧬!
Using programming & phylogenetics, I study & track viruses. Co-developer of Nextstrain, based at Swiss TPH & Uni Basel.
Founder of CoVariants.org, co-founder of @pathoplexus.org
I like 🐈 & 🛫
@firefoxx66@mstdn.science
Torsten Seemann @torstenseemann.bsky.social Professor @ University of Melbourne, Australia
Microbial bioinformatics, genomics, software, clinical and public health microbiology
https://tseemann.github.io
Kat Holt @katholt.bsky.social Scientist… pathogen genomics & antimicrobial resistance, computational biology & infectious disease epidemiology.
Co-Director LSHTM AMR Centre @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social
holtlab.net | klebnet.org | typhoidgenomics.org | amr.lshtm.ac.uk
Duncan MacCannell @drm.bsky.social Molecular #epidemiology & #publichealth. Pathogen #genomics, #microbiology, #emerginginfections, #AMR, (bio)tech #biosurveillance and #opendata.
Personal account. Opinions/dad jokes are my own.
🦅 Low productivity public sector employee.
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social Head of the School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @ Uni Birmingham. Proud Scot. Oversaw a few Covid PCR tests
Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social Prof @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social Connecting pathogen evolution with public health outcomes. #Shigella and #AMR enthusiast. Views own. http://gen.cam.ac.uk/baker-group also www.pdu.gen.cam.ac.uk also @pducambridge.bsky.social
Robert Petit @rpetit3.bsky.social Public health bacterial genomics, bioinformatic workflow development, and training. Bactopia (https://bactopia.github.io). @ Wyoming Public Health Laboratory
Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿 @pvanheus.bsky.social #bioinformatics at @SANBI_SA, building bioinformatics workflows for (Pan-)African PH. health & justice! married. @pvanheus@mstdn.science
Dutchscientist (the real one) @dutchscientist.bsky.social Microbiologist @ Vet School, genomics/pathogens. Views, compliments and rants are my own. ORCID: 0000-0003-0203-1305. Am trying to avoid getting politics in my mentions, science and cats OK!
Josh Quick @scalene.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, University of Birmingham
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io Co host of the Micro Binfie podcast
Finlay Maguire @finlaym.bsky.social Ast Prof CS+Epi at Dalhousie/Pathogenomics Bioinformatics Lead at Shared Hospital Lab (Sunnybrook): infectious disease genomic epidemiology (AMR/SC2/Zoonoses) & socially-focused collab data science (he/him)
Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social Microbiology PhD, co-author of antiSMASH, Open Source geek, views are my own. @kblin@scholar.social
Áine O'Toole @aineotoole.bsky.social Virus evolution, bioinformatics & phylogenetics. Researcher at University of Edinburgh.
Simon Harris @simonrharris.bsky.social Senior Program Officer in the Genomic Epidemiology and Modelling team at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Pathogen genomics and bioinformatics.
John Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org Pathogen informatics and modelling http://bacpop.org
(Research group leader at EMBL-EBI - http://ebi.ac.uk/research/lees/)
Conor (Conchúr) Meehan @conmeehan.bsky.social Researching WGS/Epi/Taxonomy of pathogenic mycobacteria and evo of microbiomes. Irish-born, Nottingham-working. Call me Conchúr if you can pronounce it. He/They
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/science-technology/conor-meehan
Alison Mather @alisonmather.bsky.social Epidemiology, microbial (meta)genomics, antimicrobial resistance, One Health, Professor of Microbial Genomic Epidemiology at Quadram Institute Bioscience & University of East Anglia.
Phil Ashton @flashton.bsky.social Genomic epidemiologist at the Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance at Oxford. How can microbial genomics improve health in high infectious disease settings?
Colman O'Cathail @colmanoc.bsky.social ENA Project Lead & Product Owner @ebi.embl.org | Bioinformatics services and infrastructure | @enasequence.bsky.social
Keith Jolley @kjolley.bsky.social Bioinformatician in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford.
Working on microbial genomics | Developer of @PubMLST.org and BIGSdb | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0751-0287