Grand Lab @grandlab.bsky.social We are a group at the Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH) at Heidelberg University that strive to understand the regulatory principals that govern gene expression in health and disease
Diego Safian @diegosafian.bsky.social EvoDevo biologist studying organ evolution at @crick.ac.uk. 🇨🇱 → 🇳🇱 → 🇬🇧
diegosafian.weebly.com
Fany M. Real @fany-real.bsky.social Group leader at CABD (Seville). Previous at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (Berlin). Interested in evolutionary genomics of moles and in any other living creature!
Email: fmarrea@upo.es
Web: https://fmreallab.github.io/website/
Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social RNA biology lab studying cell fate and cell identity in the context of embryonic development and disease @Goethe University
#ribosome #translational_control #RBP #splicing #RNA_localizatilzon
https://kurianlab.com/
Alum:@salkinstitute @yeo lab, UCSD
Simon Wengert @simon-wengert.bsky.social Postdoc at Copenhagen University | foundation models for genomics | mtDNA heteroplasmy | ageing & psychiatric diseases
Mikko Taipale @miketilapia.bsky.social Fights like a cow.
taipalelab.org
Tschopp Lab @tschopplab.bsky.social EvoDevo, Cell Fates and Regulatory Evolution
@UniBasel
https://evolution.unibas.ch/tschopp/index.htm
Simon Anders @s-anders.bsky.social physicist, bioinformatics / biostats researcher at University of Heidelberg
Jay Shendure @jshendure.bsky.social shendure lab |. krishna.gs.washington.edu
Albert Blanch-Asensio @ablanchasensio.bsky.social ▪️Postdoc at @CRG.eu (LinLab)
▪️Cell Fate Engineering
▪️Mammalian Synthetic Biology
▪️Stem Cell Biology
▪️Genome Engineering
▪️STRAIGHT-IN Dual platform
Carlos Aguilar Pérez @carlosaplysia.bsky.social 🇲🇽 PhD Student @MPIforBI / UniGoe interested in ethology, neural computations and evolution. NSB-MBL '25
Miha Modic @paraspeckle.bsky.social Uncovering the beauty of embryonic development with functional RNA biology tools. | TT Prof at @ Carl Zeiss Center for Synthetic Genomics & KIT | http://modiclab.org/
Kaiser Lab @clocksevolution.bsky.social Evolution x Ecology x Biological Clocks x Intertidal:
focus on lunar rhythms in development & reproduction of marine insects.
+ Genomics | MolBio | Behaviour | ChemEcol | Biodiversity | SciCom
bit.ly/KaiserLab
@mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
Francisca Hervas-Sotomayor @franciscahervas.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher with @f-murat.bsky.social at INRAE_LPGP
Evolutionary Biology & Genomics
Center for Synthetic Genomics (Center SynGen) @centersyngen.bsky.social The Center for Synthetic Genomics (Center SynGen) is a trans-regional center at Heidelberg University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU).
https://www.syn-gen.de/
Avilien Dard @avdar66.bsky.social #MSCA #Postdoc, Van Breusegem Lab #VIB -UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology #plantscience #redox
https://linktr.ee/Avilien.dard
Tatiana Lebedeva @tclebedeva.bsky.social Embryos, gastrulation, and apical tufts
Postdoc at @hejnol.bsky.social lab, @uni-jena.de
PhD at @genikhovich.bsky.social lab 🪸🪼
ava true @avaindia.bsky.social st andrews '23, cambridge '24
phd @ crg, bcn
& part-time fire hula hooper 🔥
Paul Knabl @paulknabl.bsky.social EvoDevo & cnidarians.
Postdoc in the Sebé Pedrós lab at CRG. Previously PhD student in the Genikhovich group at Uni Vienna.
InvAdapt Lab @invadapt.bsky.social We are a lab focused on the study of invasive soil invertebrates, mainly land planarians. Led by Marta Álvarez Presas and based at the Universitat de Barcelona
Sergio Garcia-Moreno @sergio-gma91.bsky.social Bioinformatics, genomics & gene regulation
Former PhD student at @zeitlingerlab.bsky.social
Zeitlinger Lab @zeitlingerlab.bsky.social Our long-term research goal is to understand and predict gene regulation based on DNA sequence information and genome-wide experimental data.
George Kafetzis @gkafetzis.bsky.social Evolutionary Neuroscientist@Sussex, UK
PhD Neuroscience@University of Sussex w/ Tom Baden
MSc Neuroscience@University of Tübingen w/ Thomas Euler
Interested in visual neuroscience, neural design, evolution.
Jill Moore @moorejille.bsky.social Assistant Prof. @ UMass Chan: studying gene regulation with multi-omic data and comp methods
www.moore-lab.org
@imaeso.bsky.social @imaeso.bsky.social Associate professor at the University of Barcelona.
Biologist
Filip Nemcko @nemcko.bsky.social Scientist @arcinstitute
Ex–@stark_lab, @IMPvienna, @viennabiocenter
Alex Stark @alex-stark.bsky.social Scientist at IMP in Vienna. Excited about gene expression regulation and its encoding in our genomes - enhancers, transcription factors, co-factors, silencers, AI.
Bernardo P. de Almeida @bernardo-almeida.bsky.social Senior research scientist at InstaDeep, interested in building computational models that can read the human genome and interpret it's variation
Taylor Mighell @taylor-mighell.bsky.social Postdoc @crg.eu Barcelona
GPCRs | synthetic biology | genomics
Divit Solanki @divit-solanki.bsky.social Biology Undergrad
Rowan Mac Gabhann @rmacgabhann.bsky.social Doctoral candidate in the Uri Frank Lab. Studying epigenetics in Hydractinia.
Peter Fabian @fabianlab.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Masaryk University. Dioscuri Centre for Stem Cell Biology and Metabolic Diseases #zebrafish #devbio 🇸🇰🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇸 , he/him, *All views my own
Josefine Just @finijust.bsky.social she/they. Master's student in Ecology and Ecosystems at the University of Vienna. In awe with the natural world and grateful to get to know it better.
Meghana @meghana8.bsky.social (she/her) PhDing on jellyfish wound repair.
Finds tidbits of joy in random long walks and ice cream!
MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social Neuro and Developmental biologist. PostDoc at day. Supervillain at night. He/him #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights
@mads100tist@mastodon.social
The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social Not-for-profit publisher of Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. Host of community sites the Node, preLights and FocalPlane. Supporting biologists and inspiring biology.
EvoMG Program @evomg-bcn.bsky.social The Evolutionary Medical Genomics (EvoMG) Program is a joint initiative by the CRG, UPF and IBE in Barcelona to boost biomedical research by applying evolutionary approaches.
Website: https://t.co/MBCtzyi8jt
Marianne V. Lemée @mariannevlemee.bsky.social Postdoc @UniHeidelberg (Kaessmann Lab) | Former PhD @IGBMC (Golzio Lab)
Exploring gene regulation, evo-devo & molecular biology
Also making SciArt 🎨🖌️ | mariannelemee.my.canva.site/2025-portfolio | redbubble.com/fr/people/pleiotrop-art/shop?asc=u
Leticia Rodríguez-Montes @leticiarm1618.bsky.social PhD student at @KaessmannLab @UniHeidelberg
@xuefei-yuan.bsky.social @xuefei-yuan.bsky.social 
Yi-Jyun Luo @yjluo.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. We study the evolutionary genomics of marine invertebrates and use sequencing approaches to explore their biodiversity. More at: https://sgel.biodiv.tw/
Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social Cell Press partners with scientists across all disciplines to publish and share work that will inspire future directions in research. #ScienceThatInspires
@ulrichtechnau.bsky.social @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social Evolutionary Developmental Biologist, working on Nematostella and other Cnidaria, but also interested in all other aspects of Biology as well.
Lauren Saunders @lsaunders.bsky.social Junior/Assistant Prof @COSHeidelberg
🐟🐟🐟🐟
Trapnell and Parichy lab alum
dev bio | zebrafish | neural crest | single cell genomics
(She/her)
Lowe Lab @lowelab.bsky.social Lowe lab at Stanford University | https://lowe.stanford.edu/
Dredging the mud for chordate origins | 🏳️🌈
Jaime Huerta-Cepas @jhcepas.bsky.social Microbiome, evolution, comparative genomics, biodiversity and a little bit of ecology: cgmlab.org
Group Leader at CBGP-CSIC/UPM in Madrid, former scientist at EMBL Heidelberg, CRG Barcelona and CIPF Valencia. 
@rodericguigo.bsky.social @rodericguigo.bsky.social 
Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social 
Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist at Yale University. https://dunnlab.org
Arnone Lab @arnonelab.bsky.social Group established in 2000, studying echinoderms to unravel the evolution of organs and body parts by comparison of gene regulatory networks. https://arnonelab.it/
Phillip Cleves @pcleves.bsky.social Symbiosis, cell and developmental biology, and corals.
Assistant Professor in Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development at UC-Berkeley.
Guy Leonard @guyleonard.eurosky.social Bioinformatician w/ Tom Richards & Team at @oxfordbiology.bsky.social
Homebrewer. WSET Beer Level 2.
Rejoiner 🇪🇺🤝🇬🇧
AI is not 'inevitable', resist its uncritical adoption.
I unfollow everyone who hypes/uses genAI/LLMs/agentic coding.
Jayesh Kumar Sundaram @jaykumsun.bsky.social Interested in cis regulatory code - Looking for post-doc positions to start in spring 2027; Currently a graduate student @mtleelab.bsky.social U Pitt - Evolution of post-transcriptional gene regulation in animal early embryonic development
RECOMB Conference Series @recombconf.bsky.social The 30th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology.
May 26 - 29, 2026
recomb.org
Ekin Deniz Aksu @ekindea.bsky.social Scientist and medical doctor. Biology AI/ML methods, gene regulation, DNA sequence models, single cells. Doing a PhD in computational biology at @molgen.mpg.de.
ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de The ZMBH - the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University - is a center for research and higher education in molecular biology and biomedicine. Our research aims at fundamental questions of molecular biology.
Matthias Janeschik @evo-and-devo.bsky.social PhD student at @kaessmannlab.bsky.social interested in the interplay of development and evolution. MEME EvoBio alumnus.
Nils Trost @trostnils.bsky.social 
Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social Experimental ecology and evolution | microbes | evolution of metabolic interactions | cooperation | bacterial multicellularity.
Anna Ferraioli @annaferraioli.bsky.social Postdoc in the Burkhardt Lab @MSarsCentre @Uib
Former PhD student @Clytia_Vlfr / @EvoCELL_ITN
Giacomo Gattoni @giacomogattoni.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher in the Tosches lab at Columbia Uni | PhD in the Benito-Gutiérrez lab at Cambridge Uni | #Embryo2022 | Interested in and enchanted by brain evolution 🧠
Miki Ebisuya @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social Synthetic developmental biologist at PoL TU Dresden. Cross-species comparison and manipulation of the ORGANOID ZOO.
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-groups/ebisuya
Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social Postdoc studying 🐭 🦷 development in silico in the Cigogne team at LBMC / ENS Lyon 🦁
Ex-CRG ☀️
Ex-INRIA Beagle 🐶 (now BioTiC)
Parisien professionnel ☔
he/him
Varsha Mathur @varshamathur.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow @univienna | Previously EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow, JRF Brasenose College, Oxford Biology | protists/parasites/organelles 🔬🧬
Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social regeneration | evo-devo | menstruation
Postdoc @ Harvard SCRB
Former BIF PhD fellow @ IGFL (Lyon, FR)
BSc & MSc @ Boğaziçi University (Ist, TR)
Luca Wange @le-wange.bsky.social Postdoc at the Comparative Genomics Group at Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona. Interested in how gene regulation shapes phenotypes across mammals
Ferdinand Marlétaz @ferdix.bsky.social Comparative and regulatory genomics. Animal phylogeny and evolution
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social Or just “Li” |
Assist. Prof. @ Plant Bio, Michigan State U. |
Also post data visualization |
Lab: https://cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/ |
GitHub: https://github.com/cxli233
Ethan Hollingsworth @ewholling.bsky.social MD/PhD Student in the Kvon Lab at UC Irvine
Gene regulation in development and disease.
Artem Yashchenko @artemyashchenko.bsky.social Cell biologist studying retina and gene regulation using #organoids and #machinelearning
PhD Student in the MCB program at the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Research Institute
He/Him | Views/posts are my own
Alex Starr @astarr2.bsky.social Graduate student using human-chimp cell fusions to study the genetic changes underlying uniquely human brain and cardiovascular phenotypes
Rodrigo Senovilla-Ganzo @rodrisenovilla.bsky.social This profile will be changing: call it evolution, development or both!
I do omics to understand early development and vertebrate evolution.
PhD at @PhyloBrain
Postdoc at @denisduboule.bsky.social
Mie Monti @miemonti.bsky.social Postdoc at Novoa Lab (CRG), studying RNA modifications and specialised ribosomes with nanopore sequencing. In my free time: books, books, books.
Cas Blaauw @casblaauw.eurosky.social (machine) learning to turn one genome into 959 different cells 🪱 | bioinfo phd 🧬🖥️ in Leuven (Aerts lab @ vib.ai 🇧🇪) & Utrecht (AvO lab @ hubrecht.eu 🇳🇱)
also urbanism & (cross-border) transport, occasionally | prev 🇳🇱/🇭🇰/🇩🇰 | he/him | ook in het nederlands
@gromoron.bsky.social @gromoron.bsky.social Master's at Bonn University | Bioinf | Marine Biology and Evo-Devo enthusiast with background in Paleonthology
Mike Connelly @michaeltconnelly.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow at NHGRI, Research Associate at Smithsonian NMNH. Cnidarian evolution, symbiosis, cell biology, and conservation genomics. PhD at University of Miami Rosenstiel School. Posts are my own. 🪼🪸🧬💙
Tobiáš Ber @tobiasber.bsky.social biology student;
formerly feeding slugs in @svobodalab.bsky.social;
currently learning how to feed killifish in @pauligroup.bsky.social
petar glažar @glazar.bsky.social all things transposon. and splicing. and bicycles.
postdocing with @aktast.bsky.social
bob dylan's soldier child.
Lucrezia Ferme @lcferme.bsky.social Developmental biologist interested in Morphogenesis, Tissue Patterning, Microscopy & Biophysics | postdoc-ing @ Schier lab | PhDone with @nordenlab.bsky.social 🦓🐟 | Embryology Course 2024 @mblscience.bsky.social 🦑
Stephen Rong @alwaysrong.bsky.social Computational biologist and genomic data scientist. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoc Fellow in Spivakov Lab at Imperial College. Formerly Postdoc Fellow in Reilly Lab at Yale University. The sounds of noncoding variants wake me from my slumber.
Pia Cosma @piacosma.bsky.social 
Alejo Rodriguez-Fraticelli @alejofraticelli.bsky.social Aging and cancer stem cell heterogeneity - ICREA research professor - Quantitative Stem Cell Dynamics lab
at IRB Barcelona 🇦🇷🇪🇺🇺🇸 fraticellilab.com
Lukas Mahieu @lukasmahieu.bsky.social AI Engineer @ Stein Aerts lab
Allan Carrillo-Baltodano @allancarbal.bsky.social Developmental biologist interested in marine embryos and larvae; postdoc at Queen Mary University of London; tico 🇨🇷 in London 🏴; #embryo2019
Jase Gehring @skyjase.bsky.social scientist at UC Berkeley inventing advanced genomic technologies
lover of molecules, user of computers
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=63ZRebIAAAAJ&hl=en
Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social LMCB Group Leader at UCL and Wellcome Career Development Fellow.
Cis-regulatory control of cell fate choice in development.
https://delaslab.com/
Leading Edge Fellow. PrePrint Editor at Development
Champi @jpascualanaya.bsky.social Evo-devo researcher at the University of Málaga, Spain. Barça fanatic. Sparrows lover. Beer drinker. Cheese and salmon eater. Warhammer gamer and painter. 🇪🇸🇯🇵
https://pascualanayalab.es/
Maja Kuzman @majakuzman.bsky.social computational biologist. all things genomic. working on cfDNA, cancer genomics, early detection, prenatal testing, epigenetics, transposable elements. building reproducible computational pipelines. seeking academic partners for collaboration.
@martaig.bsky.social @martaig.bsky.social 
Daan de Groot @dhdegroot.bsky.social Group leader at IMBA at Vienna BioCenter.
How do single cells decide what to become? What to do? When? Where?
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/groups/daan-de-groot
Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social Cell aims to publish the most exciting and provocative research in biology. Posts by Scientific Editors on the Cell editorial team. See the latest papers at https://www.cell.com/cell/
Henry Gee 亨利·纪 @endofthepier.bsky.social Author, @nature Editor. DISCLAIMER: Reposts aren’t Endorsements. Personal views needn't reflect those of my employer as they don’t know where they’ve been. Personal website https://henrygeewriter.blogspot.com
Peter @biotechpedro.bsky.social PhD student at Fraticelli lab @irbbarcelona.org
I try to convert coffee into code and ideas to uncover biological mysteries. I enjoy creativity more than productivity.
Single-cell, lineage tracing, computational biology, cellular variability, [...]
Felix Ruhnow @fruhnow.bsky.social Optical microscopy specialist @surreylab.bsky.social, Faculty at @crg.eu, Beach Life @prbb.org (he/him)
Biophysics, Cytoskeletal Networks & Proteins, Single-Molecule Microscopy, Image Processing
@gulaydin.bsky.social @gulaydin.bsky.social PhD student interested in everything on DNA methylation at Beekman Lab @CRG.eu
@alvaro2000.bsky.social @alvaro2000.bsky.social 
Bence Szalai @benceszalai.bsky.social Computational systems biology - research team lead at Turbine. Previously post-doc at RWTH Aachen and Semmelweis.