Microbes.Info @microbesinfo.bsky.social Relaying microbiology news, articles and comments relevant to aspects on bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes / microorganisms. Microbes are 💪
Shane Hogle @slhogle.bsky.social Associate professor (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) and RCF fellow (@utu.fi). Microbial ecology, evolution, and biogeochemistry. Google translate power user. I still refuse to make a LinkedIn. hoglelab.org
Mike Blazanin @mikeblazanin.bsky.social Postdoc with @kayla-king.bsky.social and @sarperotto.bsky.social at UBC. Bacterial evolution with C. elegans, phages, and bacterial communities. Modeling and experimental evolution. Microbial and computational methods.
https://mikeblazanin.com/
Luis Pedro Coelho @luispedrocoelho.bsky.social Content creator for Elsevier, NPG, and others
Microbiome researcher
Based in Brisbane
Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social Bioinformatician and microbiologist at Flinders University in Adelaide. @linsalrob on all your socials
Daniel Zhen Ye Sin @danielsin909.bsky.social Phages! Microbiota! MGEs! All about the little critters living around and in us :)
PhD Student at the Penadés lab, Imperial College London
Rafael Pinilla-Redondo (Rafa) @rafomics.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at Copenhagen University. Excited about phages, plasmids, and bacterial immunity!👨🔬🔬 https://pinillaredondolab.com/
Julia Frunzke @frunzkelab.bsky.social Professor at Forschungszentrum Jülich and HHU Düsseldorf. Phage-host interaction, regulatory networks, metabolic engineering, SPP 2330
Thomas Ipoutcha @tomipou.bsky.social Postdoc at Imperial College, in the
@jrPenades lab. Passionate about Phage-bacteria, AMR stories.
MGE Workshop @mgeworkshop.bsky.social A meeting dedicated to researchers exploring the world of Mobile Genetic Elements across all kingdoms of life.
Monday 16th - Tuesday 17th June 2025 - B100, University of Southampton
Vicki Orr @vickiorr.bsky.social Postdoc with Jamie Hall at University of Liverpool, focussing on mobile genetic elements and gene spread in microbial communities! 🦠🧫🧬💻
Louise Flanagan @flanagella.bsky.social Research Associate in AMR Evolution at the University of Manchester. And I have a life too, I swear. She/her ☘️
Siân Owen @sianowen.bsky.social Microbiologist & phage phanatic! Enthusiastic explorer of microbial genomes.
PI at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
Asst Prof @albany.edu
Currently obsessed with plasmid-dependent phages
www.wadsworth.org/research/laboratories/owen
Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social Epigenetic Inheritance, Neuroscience & anything biology-related
https://www.odedrechavilab.com/
q.e.d: https://www.qedscience.com
Organizer of “The Woodstock of Biology”
TED: https://shorturl.at/myFTY
Huberman Lab Podcast: https://youtu.be/CDUetQMKM6g
Mariia A. Beliaeva @mariiabeliaeva.bsky.social Bio/chemist, interested in microbes and their proteins 🦠🧬👩💻
Currently PostDoc @embl.org | PhD @unibas.ch | MSc Lomonosov MSU
Meeri Niemi @meeriniemi.bsky.social Doctoral researcher in microbiology
Researching large phages & viral ecology
Interested in virology, microbial ecology, and the world of viral-bacterial interactions
Phagers unite💪
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
@kc-huang.bsky.social @kc-huang.bsky.social 
MDM lab @mdmlab.bsky.social Molecular Diversity of Microbes Lab at Institut Pasteur
Focusing on bacterial immunity 🦠🧬🧫 //
We ♥️ sharing our science with everyone // PI Aude Bernheim
Zeynep Baharoglu @zeynepbaharoglu.bsky.social RNA modifications, antibiotic tolerance, bacterial stress, non coding RNAs, Vibrio cholerae.
EPICS lab - Institut Pasteur & EGM (IBPC, CNRS)
Céline Loot @celineloot.bsky.social Bacterial plasticity, integrons, phage defence
DR2-CNRS, cheffe de groupe @Institut Pasteur
Sanne Klompe @sanneklompe.bsky.social Mobile Genetic Elements | CRISPR-Cas | Phage-Host interactions
Pedro Dorado-Morales @doradomoralesp.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at PGB Unit (Institut Pasteur). Interested in bacterial genetics, bacterial signalling, mobile genetic elements and synthetic biology
Lavisha Parab @lavishaparab.bsky.social Phages, microbiome, bacteria, antibiotic resistance
Postdoc@LMU Munich, prev. Max Planck Inst. Evolbio @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social & IITKGP
Love experimenting, science & politics
she/her 💜 🏳️🌈
Neurodiv
https://lavishaparab.github.io/
medium.com/voyagertoujours
Alessio Yang @alessioyang.bsky.social PhD student at EMBL
@ami-bhatt.bsky.social @ami-bhatt.bsky.social 
Animalcules @bacteriophile.bsky.social Bacteria lover. Good, bad, or other wise. Beneficial, commensal, or pathogenic alike.
Authorized GMB (Genetically Modified Bacteria) scientist 
Center for Phage Technology @phagetechnology.bsky.social Located at Texas A&M University. Devoted to the study of bacteriophages for human health and agriculture. Home of the CPT Galaxy/Apollo phage annotation system. Cpt.tamu.edu 
Phage papers @phagepapers.bsky.social Bsky bot that delivers new phage related papers and news! Tweets are not endorsements! Started by
@jamesgurney.bsky.social and saved by @yawnxyz.bsky.social
Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social Professor of Microbiome Ecology at Institute of Biology, Leiden University
Bacillus subtilis, biofilms, plant microbiome, bacteria-fungi interactions and circadian clock within @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG
https://linktr.ee/atkovacs
Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social Experimental ecology and evolution | microbes | evolution of metabolic interactions | cooperation | bacterial multicellularity.
Prof Cynthia Whitchurch FAA🏳️🌈 @cwhitch.bsky.social Microbiologist, interested in alternate bacterial lifestyles - cell wall deficiency, biofilms, AMR
Fabienne Benz @fabbenz.bsky.social Working on the spread of antibiotic-resistance plasmids and the role of plasmid-encoded CRISPR-Cas currently postdoc @institut pasteur previously phd @ ETH
Matthew J Shepherd @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social Bicentenary Fellow @manchester.ac.uk within @mermanchester.bsky.social - Understanding opportunistic pathogen evolution - AMR, pathogenesis, niche transitions 🧫🧬 Former Fellow @wiko-berlin.bsky.social
Olaya Rendueles @olayarendueles.bsky.social Microbial evolution & ecology, focus on surface structures (capsules) and HGT (#plasmids #phages), mostly in #Klebsiella #MicroSky
From #Asturias 🇪🇸 living in 🇫🇷
@CNRS
Alvaro San Millan @sanmillan.bsky.social Plasmid biology, antimicrobial resistance plasmidlab.es
Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social Systems Microbiology @EMBL, combining high-throughput approaches & mechanism in bacteria, antibiotics, microbiome, infection, species diversity, cell envelope
https://www.embl.org/groups/typas/
Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social Professor, University of Geneva. We study Enterococcal biofilms, pathogenesis, and AMR. Formerly @KimInSingapore 🌴.
https://kimberlyklinelab.com/
Alvaro Sanchez @asanchezlab.bsky.social CSIC Professor and Principal Investigator of the Quantitative Biology group at IBFG in Salamanca. Previously at Yale EEB, CNB-CSIC. Our group works on building predictive models of biological teams. More information at www.sanchezlaboratory.weebly.com- J Jo Fothergill @jojofoth.bsky.social
Will Smith @willpjsmith.bsky.social I love science! I study toxin interactions in microbes. Dad of two @wellcometrust Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow | All views my own | he/him | 🏳️🌈
Lab website: https://willsmithlab.com/
Jana Huisman @jhuisman.bsky.social HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT | Mobile genetic elements and microbial communities
Ronan McCarthy @ronanmccarthy.bsky.social Professor at Brunel University of London. Into all things Antibiotic Resistance, Drug Discovery, Biofilms and Signalling
Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social We study social evolution in viruses.
Assistant Professor @zoology.ubc.ca & @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social
asherleeks.com
Sheppard Lab @sheppardlab.bsky.social Working to understand ecology, epidemiology and evolution of pathogenic bacteria at University of Oxford.
Account operated by group members.
Pauline Scanlan @paulinedscanlan.bsky.social School of Microbiology and APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork 🇮🇪
Microbial Ecology | Microbial Evolution | Gut Microbiome
José R Penadés @jrpenades.bsky.social Frustrated football player, I moved to a less relevant work: microbiologist interested on mobile genetic elements
Plasmid Society @plasmidsociety.bsky.social 
Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com Exploring the wonders of microbiology with reviews and commentaries from across the field. Brought to you by your curious editors! 🔬✨
https://nature.com/nrmicro/
Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com Nature Microbiology publishes the latest research and commentary in all areas of microbiology.
https://www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/
Nucleic Acids Research @narjournal.bsky.social Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), from Oxford University Press, publishes the results of leading-edge research into physical, chemical, biochemical and biological aspects of nucleic acids and proteins involved in nucleic acid metabolism and/or interactions
Nature @nature.com Research, news, and commentary from Nature, the international science journal. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: https://go.nature.com/get-Nature-Briefing
bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social 
bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social 
bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social 
Prajwal Bharadwaj @prajwalvb.bsky.social PhD @ University of Liverpool studying Plasmids + Pathogens + Evolution + AMR
prajwalbharadwaj.com
University of Exeter @exeter.ac.uk Exeter is a world class research institution. Our teaching and learning is rated TEF Triple Gold.
Clàudia Morros Bernaus @claudiamb98.bsky.social PhD Student University of Exeter.
CRISPR-Cas9 - AMR - E. coli ST131.
Cornwall-Barcelona
Alice Maestri @alicemaestri.bsky.social Postdoc Institut Pasteur - evolution of bacteria and MGEs
Asya Minervina @asya-minervina.bsky.social 
Meg Llewellyn @megllewellyn.bsky.social PhD Researcher | Bacteriophage–Bacteria Interactions | Anti-phage Defence Systems | Westra Lab, University of Exeter
Charlotte Chong @charlotteechong.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher / University of Cambridge 👩🏻🔬
Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social Sci-Comm | Researcher @kurzgesagt.org | she/her 🦠🧫🔬 | Tell your cat I said PSPSPSPS
Elze Hesse @elzehesse.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow based at the University of Exeter, interested in understanding the ecology and evolution of public goods, cooperation and plant-microbe interactions in metal- polluted soils
Wenlong Zhu @hiltior.bsky.social Postdoc in Westra’s Lab University of Exeter | CRISPR | Quorum Sensing | Immune System of Bacteria
Artem Ilin @adc34.bsky.social Postdoc at Stockholm University. TEs, epigenetics, bioinformatics, small RNA and Drosophila 🪰!
artemilin.dev
Steven Shaw @steven-shaw.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bristol examining Anti-phage systems in the Szczelkun Lab| Biochemical, Biophysical and Nanopore
Taoran Fu @taoranfu.bsky.social Eco-evo | Postdoc in Brockhurst group at University of Manchester
Microbiology | Pseudomonas | Quorum-sensing and defense system
Malaka De Silva @malakades.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Cambridge. 
Xavier Charpentier @labxc.bsky.social Group leader.
HGT in bacterial pathogens. Acinetobacter, Legionella. Natural transformation. AMR. MGEs.
Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie
Nils Birkholz @nilsbirkholz.bsky.social Molecular microbiologist investigating bacterial defence systems and mobile genetic elements. Research Fellow in the Fineran Lab. 🇳🇿
Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social #NewPI interested in #immune #evolution, host #pathogen interactions, and #ScientificPublishing @ University of Exeter, UK. He/him. 🇨🇦
Ellinor Alseth @ellinoralseth.bsky.social Eco-evo with microbes. I happen to like fjords, I think they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. The University of Tromsø. Opinions my own. She/her
April Hayes @aprilhayes.bsky.social (she/her) postdoc @ Uni of Exeter in Cornwall 🌊mainly stress out bacteria and track AMR. big fan of the sea, reading, & sunsets 🌞
Benoit Pons @benoitjpons.bsky.social Lecturer in bacterial genomics at Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
Research in phage-bacteria co-evolution at LMGM @cbitoulouse.bsky.social
he/him
Josie Elliott @josie-e.bsky.social Postdoc studying evolutionary microbiology with phage and pseudomonas at MMSB Lyon, France with Anne Chevallereau in the MEEP group (She/Her)
Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social One of the greatest discoveries in microbiology came from contamination. Join the club and share yours here 🦠🧫 Merch ➡️ https://www.contam.club
Elizabeth Pursey @elliepursey.bsky.social Scientist of microbial genomes, writes and draws a lot
Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social Microbial ecologist/carer. NERC IRF and MRF Emerging Leaders Fellow at the University of Exeter in Penryn. I like warming up bacteria, open & reproducible science, making focaccia, and exercise.
John Bruce @jbbruce.bsky.social Evolution*microbes
postdoc @UniversityofStrathclyde currently working on phage defence in Streptomyces
Lotta-Riina Sundberg @lrsundberg.bsky.social Pathogenic and environmental bacteria and their phages, evolution of pathogenicity, phage resistance, mucosal environment. Professor in Univ. Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Jasmine Ono @jtono.bsky.social Yeast match-maker. BBSRC Discovery Fellow and Assistant Prof at the Uni of Nottingham.
Leighton Payne @leightonpayne.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher // Section of Microbiology, University of Copenhagen // Anti-MGE systems 🦠⚔️
leightonpayne.com
Will Gaze @willhgaze.bsky.social Microbiologist, AMR, environmental scientist, communicating science to people who make things happen
Jasmine TC @jasminetc2000.bsky.social SWBio PhD Student co-supervised by Prof Tiffany Taylor @ University of Bath and Prof Edze Westra @ University of Exeter. Investigating bacterial defence system regulation and synergistic interactions. Exeter MSci Conservation and Biology graduate.
Paul Turner Lab @paulturnerlab.bsky.social Experimental evolution of viruses for basic science and evolutionary medicine at Yale Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Tweeting papers & news from our group. Acct managed by lab members.
Frédérique Le Roux @fredoleroux.bsky.social Professeure/chaire d'excellence du Canada
Université de Montréal
Département de microbiologie, infectiologie et immunologie
What do I like? Wild things 😜 yet phages are my favorite!
Jessica Sacher @jessicasacher.bsky.social phage therapy scientist at Stanford, building community at Phage Directory, writing about adventures from the lab to the clinic -> https://jess.bio
Jean-Paul Pirnay @jeanpaulpirnay.bsky.social Queen Astrid military hospital #phage / #phagetherapy / human cell and tissue #transplantation / my opinions are, of course, my own
MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social Microbial Evolution Research at The University of Manchester
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/merman/
Alberto Torcello-Requena @sechyss.bsky.social Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Exeter. I'm interested in what drives evolution in bacteria. Cornwall, UK.
Ramsey Lab @jrrmicrolab.bsky.social #phage research lab @ Texas A&M Biology, affiliate of @phagetechnology.bsky.social | account managed by @jrrmicro.bsky.social & lab members ramseylab.vercel.app
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. 
Uli Klümper @ulikluemper.bsky.social Microbial Ecologist @ TU Dresden
Focusing on Evolution, Ecology and Environmental dimensions of AMR & plasmids
Formerly @ DTU & UoExeter
He/him
Rebecca Woodhams @rebeccawoodhams.bsky.social PhD student with the Westra/van Houte Lab @UniExeCornwall. Researching how phage talk to each other whilst being mediocre at best at communicating myself 🦠
Joe Westley @joe-westley.bsky.social PhD Researcher in the Westra/van Houte lab at the University of Exeter. I'm interested in using flow cytometry to run high-throughput competition/coevolution experiments to learn about the evolutionary ecology of bacterial defence systems.
Dmitry Ghilarov @dghilarov.bsky.social Cryo-EM ❄️🔬 | Molecular machines & mechanisms 🧬 | Associate professor @oxfordbiochemistry ghilarovlab.com
Bridget Watson @bridgetwatson.bsky.social Lecturer and group leader, University of Otago, New Zealand
Former BBSRC Discovery Fellow, University of Exeter, Cornwall UK
Microbial ecology and evolution, plant-microbe interactions, mobile genetic element-defence system interactions, Azospirillum spp
Meaghan Castledine @mcastd.bsky.social NERC IRF 🦠 all things PHAGE and microbial communities 🧫🔬 I also have a dog and enjoy nerdy things 🧝🏻♀️
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