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/
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
Matt Loose @minomatt.bsky.social Sequencing, adapting and exploring genomes.
https://linktr.ee/matt.loose
Alexandra Weisberg @weisbergaj.bsky.social Asst. Prof, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University.
Stefan Barakat @stefanbarakat.bsky.social Associate Professor at Erasmus MC. MD, PhD, Clinical Geneticist, interested in gene regulation and the non-coding genome, bridging research and patient care
Metagenomic Virus Discovery workshop @virus-metagenomics.bsky.social The Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) is hosting the Metagenomic Virus Discovery Workshop 2025. A 5 day hands on workshop taught by global experts in virus discovery
Aaron Pomerantz @aaronpomerantz.bsky.social Associate Director, Global Segment Marketing @ Oxford Nanopore Technologies - Microbiology, Infectious Disease, Synthetic Biology. The coolest discoveries are the ones you make. Tweets/views are my own.
John Tyson @drt1973.bsky.social Senior Scientist BCCDC in Microbial Genomics and itinerant Nanopore tinkerer
Martin Smith @martinalexsmith.bsky.social 🧬 Genomics | RNA Biology | AI & Nanopore Sequencing | Biotech & Innovation
🔬 Director @ramacgenomics.bsky.social | A/Prof @ UNSW BABS | RNA Institute
🌍 Exploring genomes, RNA, & the future of precision medicine
🏕️🥾🎣🚴 Science, adventure & good coffee
Jana Batovska @mozztacular.bsky.social Research scientist interested in mosquitoes, infectious disease, nanopore seq and metagenomics. Views are my own.
Jason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social Assist Dir. @DNALC @CSHL
Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist / Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Biology, Next Generation Proteomics, Liquid Biopsy, SynBio, AI/ML in biotech // http://albertvilella.substack.com
Sergey Nurk @sergeynurk.bsky.social Principal Bionformatician
@nanopore. Ex: Postdoctoral fellow @ NIH; Researcher @ CAB. Views are my own; #StandWithUkraine Support Ukraine!
Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social Professor, USC Marine and Environmental Biology, microbe hunter. he/him. Not a bot. thethrashlab.com @the.thrash.lab
Steven Robbins @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social Do my science @ace_uq studying coral reef microbiomes. Data wrangler, meta-omics and long-read wonk, clean energy enthusiast, Saganist zealot, collector of weird zoology facts, other nonsense.
Bede Constantinides @bede.im Research fellow at the University of Birmingham interested in infectious disease informatics. Also cycling, photography, active travel. https://bede.im
Curtis Kapsak @curtiskapsak.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist @theiagen.bsky.social
Likely swimming in a sea of pathogen genomes 🏊🧬 or riding my bike 🚴
Public Health | Infectious Diseases | Bioinformatics | Software Dev
Philippe Le Mercier, ViralZone @viralzone.bsky.social Virologist- L Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social Associate Professor
DFCI & HMS
Chloé Baum @chloebaum.bsky.social PhD in Molecular Biology and NGS specialist working at Biomics sequencing core facility of @institupasteur
Nanopore and microbiome lover.
Karel Břinda @brinda.eu ‖ Permanent Researcher / INRIA Start. Faculty @ INRIA Rennes 🇫🇷 ‖
BioInfo/CompBio: algorithms, genomics, pathogens & rapid diagnostic of antibiotic resistance《 https://brinda.eu | https://github.com/karel-brinda 》
Manuel Ares-Arroyo @aresarroyom.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at Intistut Pasteur | MSCActions | Vet | Plasmid Biology, Bacterial Evolution & Antimicrobial Resistance
Maryse Berkhout @maryseberkhout.bsky.social Microbes & glycans 🤩 | Gut Microbial Ecology | Wageningen University, NL | https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=PhNYBVUAAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=ao
Christin Hanigan @chanigan.bsky.social I’m a scientist and just generally curious about the world around me. All opinions are my own.
MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social Microbial sequencing made simple.
Whole Genome Sequencing + Metagenomics: http://microbesng.com
PlasmidSeq: http://plasmidsng.com 😊
CoraVacher @coravacher.bsky.social 
Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social The Huttenhower Lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: microbial community function and human microbiome population health;
Moderator: @chahat.bsky.social
Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social Director of Department of Microbiome Science at MPI Biology Tübingen Germany. Also known as Leylab.com.
Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social Microbiology, evolution, and bacteriophages. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Jack A Gilbert @gilbertjacka.bsky.social Microbial ecologist: EIC for mSystems Journal, cofounder of http://biomesense.com; President for AMI (http://appliedmicrobiology.org); Father, Scientist, Pilot.
Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social The Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics led by Nicola Segata
**We are hiring, get in touch if interested!**
http://segatalab.cibio.unitn.it/
Moderator @svetlanaup.bsky.social
hostmicrobe @hostmicrobe.bsky.social Scientist working at the intersection of immunology, microbiology and genomics. Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases at UPenn.
Shaun Cross @shauntcross.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Nebraska Medical Center | Pathogen Genomics, Vector-borne Diseases, One Health
Rachel Poretsky @rporetsky.bsky.social Professor in Microbial Ecology, mostly aquatic and wastewater. Public health. Bike/transit enthusiast. LCI. Mom. Vegan. Compact-sized. Brooklyn —> Chicago with lots of stops on the way.
Salvador Almagro-Moreno @bioetry.bsky.social Emergence and evolution of bacterial pathogens
Complexity in biological systems
Dept. of Host-Microbe Interactions
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
NSF CAREER. BWF PATH
Joel Babdor @joelbabdor.bsky.social Asst. Prof. University of Pennsylvania
Systems Immunology and Microbiome Medicine lab
#Academia #Immunology #Microbiome #SystemsBiology
Mentorship | Science communication | Research culture
Lab website: Babdorlab.com
Guillaume Méric @gmeric.bsky.social 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇦🇺 (he/him) | www.mericlab.com
Microbiome(s) and population health, host-microbe & pathogen genomics 🦠🧬
- Associate Professor (University of Bath);
- Clinical affiliate (Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute)
Raymond Kiu @raymondkiu.bsky.social Research Fellow with Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social at the Institute of Microbiology & Infection @imibirmingham.bsky.social & Quadram Institute | Gut microbiome | Metagenomics | Microbial genomics | AMR 🧬🦠🇬🇧
🔗 https://linktr.ee/raymondkiu
Sara Marti @saramarti2.bsky.social Group leader at IDIBELL, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, working on Haemophilus spp and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
#Microbiology #microbiome #biofilm #ATBs #COPD
I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, a joint research centre of @uv.es and @csic.es 🌐 https://i2sysbio.es/ 🇪🇸
Jan Gawor @gaworjan.bsky.social Sanger / NGS sequencing specialist (love long reads :) / microbial de novo sequencing / Research Associate at http://oligo.pl DNA Sequencing Facility IBB PAS Warsaw, Poland
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.
Nick Scales Ph.D. @nickscales.bsky.social Microbial ecologist, genomics enthusiast |
Collective liberation or bust
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social Collector of social media sites. Infectious disease epidemiologist. Writes about vaccine hesitancy, science misinfo, zombies. Probably somewhere on a trail. Views own etc.
Dr. Candace Williams @canda007.bsky.social Microbiome Scientist | microbes-metabolites -(mostly)mammals | she/her | Views are my own | |🐘🦏🐻🐯🐼👤🦎🐸🐭💧🦠 |
PacBio @pacbio.bsky.social Our mission is to enable the promise of genomics to better human health by creating the world’s most advanced sequencing technologies. 
Sergey Koren @sergek.bsky.social Scientist at NHGRI/NIH. Mapping complete genomes, finished a couple, working on more 🐮🐟🐒. Posts are my own opinion. 
Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social Finished a human genome @ NHGRI, working on a few hundred more @ Johns Hopkins University 👨💻
Lab: https://genomeinformatics.github.io
Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University. http://schatz-lab.org
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
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
Susan Hopkins @smhopkins.bsky.social CEO, UKHSA
Infectious diseases clinician and epidemiologist
Hon Consultant Infectious Diseases, Royal Free London
Hon Prof Infectious Diseases & Health Security, UCL
Phillipa Burns @phillipaburns.bsky.social Consultant Clinical Scientist - Med Micro
Infection Research Group (IRG) Hull.
Interested in CF, AMR, application of Nanopore & diagnostics
Supportive of all in training ❤️
FRCPath via HSST 🧫🧬🥼
A mum that can run as fast as small children walk
Jess Chen @drjesschen.bsky.social Mom, wife, birder, bike commuter, and microbial bioinformatician.
Amanda Warr @amandatron89.bsky.social BBSRC Discovery Fellow #bioinformatics, #Genomics & #Metagenomics I like long reads, 3D printing, swimming in cold places and cats.
plasmidsaurus @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social Sequence plasmids, amplicons, colonies, AAV, yeast, and bacterial genomes! Our advanced sequencing delivers comprehensive visibility, higher accuracy, and the ability to detect structural variations and rare mutations that other sequencing methods miss.
Lara Urban @laraurban42.bsky.social PI @helmholtz_ai @pioneercampus
Faculty @TU_Muenchen
Genomics & AI f OneHealth
@eLife Advisor
Pre PhD @Cambridge_Uni @emblebi @embl & @AvHStiftung Fellow in NZ
Anna Cusco @annacusco.bsky.social Microbiome scientist | Metagenomics | Long-read sequencing
Postdoc at Big Data Biology Lab
Kara Dicks @kara-dicks.bsky.social Wildlife & conservation genetics/omics, evolutionary ecology. Conservation geneticist working at Oxford Nanopore (ORG.one), but views are my own
Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social Conservation geneticist @SanDiegoZoo|
Director @fieldprojects |
Maxwell Hanrahan Field Biology Fellow
Wildlife biologist | Venipuncture enthusiast | Twin mum | Immigrant | Science writer
Alumnus of WashU-STL & Grinnell College
Bangalorean ಕನ್ನಡ ಹುಡುಗಿ
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
Michael Baym @baym.lol Associate Prof @HarvardMed. Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements, algorithms, phages, molecular biotech, etc. Find me under “floating dumpster fire”
Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr 👩🔬 The Institut Pasteur is a leading global biomedical research institute.
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Cornelius Roemer @corneliusroemer.bsky.social Studying SARS-CoV-2 evolution @nextstrain @biozentrum
Studied Physics @Cambridge Uni, then learned about computers
Liz Batty @lizbatty.bsky.social Crisp-loving nerd. Bioinformatician and molecular microbiologist focused on tropical diseases. Live in Bangkok, do a podcast, drink coffee, go to the beach.
Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social Study genetic conflicts professionally. Try to avoid conflicts in personal life (with mixed results).
Fred Hutch Basic Sciences,
UW Genome Sciences,
HHMI.
Posting in a personal capacity. My posts don’t reflect my employers’ opinions.
Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social PI @ Vilnius University Life Sciences Center 🦠🧬🌳🌍🐾📈.
Enthusiast of orthomyxos (& other (-)ssRNA viruses), RNA virus discovery, evolution & ecology, genomic epidemiology, data-vis, matplotlib.
EMBO installation grantee.
evogytis.github.io
Theo Sanderson @theo.io researching viral pathogen genomics at @lshtm.bsky.social, building @pathoplexus.org | theo.io / sandersonlab.org
Spyros Lytras @spyroslytras.bsky.social Head of the Antigen Evolution and Design lab @antigenevo.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur 🇫🇷
💻🦠🏳️🌈
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.
Erik Karlsson @eakarlsson.bsky.social Emerging/endemic infectious diseases, mostly viruses. Pandemic Prevention. Early Warning. One Health. Science outside-the-box. Views my own. 🦠🧪🔬🐓🦇
Áine O'Toole @aineotoole.bsky.social Virus evolution, bioinformatics & phylogenetics. Researcher at University of Edinburgh. 
Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social Scientist & Prof @UOxford
https://kraemerlab.com/
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/pandemic-genomics
https://www.psi.ox.ac.uk/ 
Simon Roux @simrouxvirus.bsky.social Virus-obsessed bioinformatician, DOE JGI Scientist, Enjoy exploring the viral world with #metagenomics and other cool #omics toys. He/him. Opinions my own. 
Björn Meyer @bmeyer.bsky.social Virologist ☣ | Trying to understand why viruses tick the way they do - then, now and in future | 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇳
@themeyerlab.bsky.social 
Host Microbe interactions @hostmicrobelit.bsky.social Trying to keep up with the literature. Infection, microbiome, bioinformatics and multi-omics.
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.
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
Torsten Seemann @torstenseemann.bsky.social Professor @ University of Melbourne, Australia
Microbial bioinformatics, genomics, software, clinical and public health microbiology
https://tseemann.github.io
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
Institute for Genome Sciences @genomescience.bsky.social Leading-edge research in all-things 'omics, including #microbiomes, #neurogenomics, #genomics, #fungi, #parasites, #cancer, and more. Visit us: igs.umaryland.edu & our sister site Maryland Genomics: marylandgenomics.org for #sequencing & #bioinformatics.
Jonathan Jacobs @bioinformer.bsky.social UofArizona #Aggie > UofMaryland PhD > NIH/NCI PostDoc > > > ATCC #Genomics, #Bioinformatics, Data Authenticity, #BioSecurity. 🎲♟️👾🎮 🎸 🧪 🧬 🖥 🦠🚀🏎️ he/him.
https://bioinformer.substack.com
Joanna Malukiewicz @arcova.bsky.social New PI. Instituto de Medicina Tropical, FM-USP, São Paulo Brazil. PRIMA: Primates, Immunogenetics, and Adaptation research group. Marmosets, Microbes, Hybridization, Evolution, Non-Human Primates, Viruses. https://callithrix-omics.github.io/ 🇵🇱🇧🇷
Microbiome Virtual International Forum @microbiomevif.bsky.social • a free recurring bite-sized alternative to multi-day #microbiome conferences •
➡️ Every month, a new event... join #MVIF community!
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Erin Young @erinyoung.bsky.social Public Health #Bioinformatician. Wants to sequence ALL THE THINGS. Personal account with alternative spellings and grammar structures. She/her
Jonathan Keats, PhD 🇨🇦 @pedalheadphx.bsky.social 🇨🇦 boiling in the Arizona desert and not riding my bikes enough. Cancer researcher focused on multiple myeloma and clinical genomics at TGen, part of City of Hope. Creator of MyelomaSky and Sequencing Tech feeds. Director, Collaborative Sequencing Center
Josh Quick @scalene.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, University of Birmingham
Tina Han @tingfordha.bsky.social Genomics scientist by day, amateur potter and yogi by night, who loves culture and nature. Ex-MPI_MolGen Posts are my own; Repost ≠ endorsements. instagram/wawapot
Sean McKenzie @dorylophile.bsky.social 
Eric Bortz, PhD @bortz-virology.bsky.social Pathogenomics PI 🦠🧬
University of Alaska
Andreas Sjödin @druvus.bsky.social Microbial genomics and forensics, Metagenomics, Francisella, Long-read seq, AI
AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social Program Manager ID/TB/HIV/Cancer/Rare Diseases, US & International Research Projects
💃🏽🐶🐈⬛📸🌳🌹🌅☕️🍷📖✍🏼💻🩻🇲🇽🇺🇸
Mart Krupovic @mkrupovic.bsky.social Virus origins/diversity/evolution; mobilome; Archaea.
Head of the Cell Biology and Virology of Archaea Unit at Institut Pasteur:
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/archaeal-virology/
Joint Genome Institute @jgi.doe.gov We are a DOE User Facility providing access to integrative genome science capabilities. Located at Berkeley Lab. Work with us: http://jointgeno.me/proposals_B
Element Biosciences @elembio.bsky.social Opening the world of biology to new possibilities. #multiomics #5dmultiomics elementbiosciences.com
Eric Chow @eric-chow.bsky.social Director of UCSF
Center for Advanced Technology. cat.ucsf.edu. Interests in genomics, metagenomics, automation, molecular biology. 
Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social Prof Lindsay Hall’s research group at University of Birmingham & Quadram Institute. Early life microbiota (we love Bifidobacterium!), and influence of diet, host and pathogens.
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.
🔬🦠🧬🖥️💉🌻🍩🐸🥪- A Angie Hinrichs @angieshinrichs.bsky.social Working on the UCSC Genome Browser since 2002, SARS-Cov-2 phylogenetics since 2020. Opinions my own not employer's. she/her