Kristina Ulicna @kristinaulicna.bsky.social AIxBio Research Scientist 👩🔬 | PhD Computational Biology 👩💻 | BSc Biomedicine 🧫 | "Singlecellologist" 🦠 into biologically meaningful representation learning 🧬 | Decoding life in London 🇬🇧
bioRxiv Synthetic Biology @biorxiv-synthbio.bsky.social
Vitor Pinheiro @pxisto.bsky.social Associate professor (Synthetic Biology) at KU Leuven. Vice-dean for International affairs for the Department of Pharmacy. Focused on directed evolution and xenobiotic nucleic acids (XNAs), but a huge fan of molecular biology. Posts are personal.
Harris Wang @harriswang.bsky.social Chair and Professor of Dept. of Systems Biology | Columbia University | Synthetic Biology | Microbiome | Genome Engineering
http://wanglab.c2b2.columbia.edu
Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social Synthetic Biology with a Southern European flavour for a new partnership with the Living World https://vdl-lab.com/ http://seva-plasmids.com/
Paul Jaschke @pauljaschke.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University | Engineering phage & microbes to discover and create new biology.🇨🇦🇦🇺 👨👩👦👦 🦠🧬
Jason Yang @jasonyanglab.org Assistant Professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School | Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology, Machine Learning, Antibiotic Resistance, Tuberculosis, Heart Failure, Immunoengineering
Jose Jimenez @jjimenez.bsky.social Associate Professor in Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London #synbio and evolution for health, the environment and the circular economy josejimenezlab.com
Steven Burgess @sjb287.bsky.social Assistant Professor UIUC, plant biology, evolution #synbio #photosynthesis #plantscience
Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social synthetic/engineering biology, computational biology group leader @UCL. Microbial communities, control, self-organisation, patterning, and bio-computation. You might know me as Sandy. #newPI he/him
SynBioBeta @synbiobeta.bsky.social Synthetic Biology Events & Industry Information
🌍 Global Synthetic Biology Conference
📅 May 5-8, 2025 in San Jose
Join us! #SynBioBeta2025
https://www.synbiobeta.com/events/synbiobeta-2025
Anne S. Meyer @meyerroc.bsky.social Synthetic biologist, microbiologist, and iGEMer at the University of Rochester
Pablo Ivan Nikel @pabnik.bsky.social Professor DTU Biosustain · Proud PI @labnikel.bsky.social · SynBio · Metabolic Engineering · @novo-nordisk.bsky.social Ascending Investigator & Distinguished Innovator · He/him🏳️🌈
Kathrin Lang @klanglab.bsky.social Prof for chemical biology at ETH Zurich
Interested in: genetic code expansion - chembio tools - bioorthogonal chemistries - PTMs - Ub in all its shades - protein engineering
Drew Endy @drewendy.bsky.social “I seem to be a verb”
Allison Lopatkin, PhD @ajlopatkin.bsky.social Assistant prof at University of Rochester engineering genetic communication in microbial populations. Mountain enthusiast, passionate teacher
Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social Synthetic biologist, programmer of cells, and lover of all things visual. Wakes up in the morning to learn some of natures secrets and do a spot of fly fishing.
Angel Goñi-Moreno @angelgm.eurosky.social Computing with living systems | Synthetic biology. Head of the Biocomputation Lab at the CNB-CSIC @cnb-csic.bsky.social
www.biocomputationlab.com
Max Fürst @maxfus.bsky.social Asst. Prof. Uni Groningen 🇳🇱
Comp & Exp Biochemist, Protein Engineer, 'Would-be designer' (F. Arnold) | SynBio | HT Screens & Selections | Nucleic Acid Enzymes | Biocatalysis | Rstats & Datavis
https://www.fuerstlab.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7720-9
Salva Duran-Nebreda @sduran-nebreda.bsky.social Synbio & complex systems.
Aditya Kunjapur @kunjapur.bsky.social Thomas Willing Early Career Assoc. Professor, U. Delaware | #Synbio with newer-to-nature building blocks |
Formerly @Texas @MIT @HMS
www.kunjapurlab.org
Eszter Csibra @ecsibra.bsky.social Group leader and lecturer @ U Leeds 🦠 Synthetic biology 🧬 Protein synthesis 🎨 Fluorescence 🧮 Quantitative biology 📈 Data analysis. | 🐦 = eszter_cs | https://www.csibra-lab.com
Devon Stork @storkdevon.bsky.social Scientist, synthetic biology. Nonprofit cofounder. I edit microbial genomes and take lots of notes. Writer on the side.
Francesca Ceroni @ceronifranci.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London
(views are my own)
Enrico Orsi @eorsi.bsky.social Bolognese 🇮🇹 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
I engineer and optimize the metabolism of nonmodel C1-trophic bacteria for novel biotechnological applications
Metabolic Engineering | Green Economy | CO2 valorization | DTU Biosustain
Stefano Donati @stefanodonati.bsky.social Understanding and engineering microbial metabolism DTU BRIGHT, formerly DTU Biosustain.
https://www.biosustain.dtu.dk/research/research-areas/sustainable-chemicals/c1-systems-biology
Sheila I. Jensen @sheilaijensen.bsky.social Group leader for the Sustainable Microbial Applications group at DTU Biosustain. Sustainability, Synthetic biology, Biotechnology, Metabolic engineering, bacteria, Synbio
Pablo Carbonell @pablocarb.bsky.social Synthetic biology designer
Olivier Borkowski @oborkowski.bsky.social Tenured Scientist in Synthetic Biology
(INRAE, Paris Area, France)
#CellFree ⦁ #SynBio ⦁ #Bioengineering ⦁ #Microbiology
https://sites.google.com/view/olivierborkowski
Dirk Tischler @dirktischler.bsky.social A working microbiologist ... interested in #oxidoreductases, #flavoproteins, #biocatalysis and #degradation of #xenobiotics by #actinomycetes, #naturalproduct, #biotransformation and #enzyme #catalysis
Hobby #ChemistsWhoCook
Morten @norholm.bsky.social Scientific interests: synthetic biology, experimental evolution, protein production, bacterial genetics
David Riglar @driglar.bsky.social PI and Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow at Imperial College London and The Francis Crick Institute.
Jose Eduardo Escrig @jose-e.bsky.social PhD candidate Wageningen University
Synthetic Biology 🧬 & AI 💻
Vice-chair EUSynBioS
Yolanda Schaerli @yschaerli.bsky.social Synthetic biologist, Associate Professor at University of Lausanne, Switzerland
https://www.yschaerli.com/
Liedewij Laan @liedewijlaan.bsky.social Scientist, mother of 3, art lover, physics of life, (bottom-up) synthetic biology, evolution, philosophy of science, TU Delft, www.tudelft.nl/laanlab, founder BiBB https://www.betainbestuurenbeleid.nl/nl/about-us
Olivier Duss @olivierduss.bsky.social Group leader @embl.org European Molecular Biology Laboratory
#RNA biology | #single-molecule #biophysics | #structural biology | #biochemistry | #quantitative biology | #chemical biology | #synthetic biology - https://www.embl.org/groups/duss/
Nicholas Southern @neuroscinikolai.bsky.social PhD Student @ https://niopeklab.de/
Engineering switchable proteins💡
Views and opinions are my own
🇺🇸 in 🇩🇪
Krishna Shrinivas @shrinivaslab.bsky.social Asst. prof at Northwestern ChBE
Interested in how molecules and processes are organized and regulated in living cells | physics, math, engineering, and computation (mostly) for biology
shrinivaslab.com
Barbarasynbio @barbarasybio.bsky.social I love science music tennis and cats!
Mo Khalil @mokhalil.bsky.social Prof @ Harvard University, Broad Institute, and Wyss Institute.
Synthetic & systems biology.
Trying to understand the living world by engineering a synthetic one.
Lab website: https://khalillab.github.io/
Benjamin Angulo @bangulo.bsky.social PhD Candidate in George Church’s Lab at Harvard, working on synbio approaches to cell and gene therapies.
Bernardo Cervantes @bernacularbio.bsky.social Cofounder and COO at Concerto Biosciences where we aim to redefine humanity’s relationship with microbes.
Microbial engineering, biotech entrepreneurship, and LBP drug development.
Ni de aquí ni de aya 🇺🇸🇲🇽 | Views my own.
James Lloyd 🧬 @jamespblloyd.bsky.social Synthetic AstroBotanist Engineer of synthetic gene circuits in plants. 🇬🇧🇪🇺 now in 🇦🇺. He/They.
Google Scholar: http://shorturl.at/dnHVZ
Compbio blog: .com
René Inckemann @reneinckemann.bsky.social interested in plant #synbio,
Postdoc @stanford in the Brophy lab,
alumni @mpi_marburg @erblabs,
@gasb_synbio steering
@igemmarburg instructor 2018-2024
Brendan Kidd @brendankidd.bsky.social Molecular plant pathologist / synthetic biologist
Interested in tech transfer, research translation, and public good- C Chris Long @chrisplong.bsky.social Synthetic & Systems Biology
Dad, Boston sports fan
Colin Scott @oz-biocat.bsky.social Australian microbial biochemist, synthetic biologist and protein engineer. CSO at ULUU. Ex-CSIRO. Interests in biotech solutions to pollution, resource scarcity, and sustainable manufacture.
Rahul K @theresearch.bsky.social I run, ski, and engineer cells and materials; asking how nutrient sensing & signaling work: bit.ly/RK-GoogleScholar
TalTech| Ex: Tartu Ülikool; Karolinska Institutet, Chalmers; Kyutech; IITD
Alex Borowsky @atborowsky.bsky.social NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology working to design plant cis-regulatory sequences and broaden access to plant synthetic biology tools. Brophy Lab, Stanford
@davidbersten.bsky.social @davidbersten.bsky.social Transcription Factors, Synthetic Biology, forward and reverse genetic screens, mechanism rules! For the love of science!
Tara Deans @genegirl007.bsky.social Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech/Emory | Synthetic biologist interested in programming pluripotent stem cells to direct their cell fate | Hematopoiesis | Platelets
Roy Walker @synbioroy.bsky.social Yeast synthetic biologist
Research Fellow at Macquarie University
(and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology)
Brewer
Nikolai Windbichler @nikiwind.bsky.social Faculty @ Imperial - gene driver @ TransmissionZero - fellow traveller @ TargetMalaria - Synthetic Biology - Genetics - CRISPR - “the machines themselves will be different”
Alexander Leydon (He/him) @leydonsaurus.bsky.social Synthetic biology, transcriptional regulation & chromatin, working in plants, yeast & human cell culture. 🌾🍄🏳️🌈🇬🇷🇮🇪
Sila Sopran @silasopran.bsky.social SynBio lover. 🧬🌻
Biotech student
Py
🇵🇾
Nikos Kouvelas @nickkouvelas.bsky.social RNA-curious PhD student | Mühlemann Lab | NCCR_RNADisease
Akos Nyerges @akosnyerges.bsky.social #SyntheticBiology | #Genome Design & Genetic Code Engineering | Protein, RNA, DNA #DirectedEvolution |
Principal Investigator at Harvard | Our website:
https://engineeringbio.science
Phil Kyriakakis @breakliquid.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist at Stanford Bioengineering | Taking apart and building biology.🧪
Dr Sarah Kessans @sakessans.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Canterbury, Aotearoa. Fungal synthetic biology, microgravity research.
Kha Tram, Ph.D @ktram.bsky.social COO @ Cytodiagnostics | Former #McMasterU | Biosensors & Nanotechnology | Infectious Disease Diagnostics | AI/ML in HealthTech | 🇨🇦
Elisa Franco @francolab.bsky.social Franco Lab @UCLA Exploring how to program dynamic behaviors in biological self-assembly 💡✨ We’re harnessing DNA and RNA to build smart, adaptive materials 🔬🧬 #Biomaterials #DNA #RNA
Y Hoang @hoanghamyy.bsky.social Assistant Professor at SUNY Upstate Medical University
We study bacterial organelles, including biomolecular condensates.
NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award recipient
Abhishek Chatterjee @achemsynbio.bsky.social Professor @BostonCollege
Chemical Biology, Synthetic Biology, Directed Evolution, Expanding the genetic code https://sites.google.com/a/bc.edu/thechatterjeelab/home
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zeSNxNcAAAAJ&hl=en
Jelle Prins @jelleprins.com Designed the first apps for Uber.com, Booking.com, Catawiki.com and many others.
Co-founder http://operator.exchange and http://cradle.bio
Bristol BioDesign Institute @bristolbiodesign.bsky.social Coordinating synthetic and engineering biology research and innovation across Bristol. Official account of the University of Bristol.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/biodesign-institute
Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social Platypus entrepreneur scientist precision genomes engineer (nuclear&mito). Zebrafish J EIC. ‘Longhorn’ leader@ UT Austin & Dell Med. Active w/ LEAH Labs, LifEngine, Forjazul. DGI/Immusoft cofounder. First SAB @ OpenTrons. Was faculty UMN & Mayo. Posts=mine
Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social Synthetic Biologist, Protein and Genome Engineer, Microbe and Fungi Fan
www.billerbecklab.com
Louise Horsfall @lehorsfall.bsky.social engineering biology for a more circular economy
Tom Loan @tomloan.bsky.social Synthetic biologist @ANU, made in NZ.
https://github.com/TomLoan
Una Wen-lii Nattermann @unattermann.bsky.social she/her | co-founder & scientist at Pioneer Labs | protein designer & microbial engineer | interested in biotech for sustainability on Earth & beyond 🧬🦠💫
Francesco De Batté @francescodb.bsky.social Scientist doing a PhD in synthetic and evolutionary microbiology with Tiffany Taylor and Thomas Gorochowski. Also interested in developmental biology, plants, and science communication/education. I like to make in media incl. DNA and code. He/him
Jorge Marchand, PhD @xenobio.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Washington - Chemical Engineering. Building technology and engineering biology with #XenoNucleicAcids at the Xenobiology Lab.
#XNA #SyntheticBiology #ChemBio #Biosynthesis #NucleicAcids #UW
Gairik Sachdeva @gairik.bsky.social A bioengineer who believes in an abundant future. Follow my writing on innovation at: https://gairiksachdeva.substack.com/
Biotech business development at Skyhook. Previously at Arbor Bio, Abata Tx, Silver Lab.
All views here and on Substack are my own.
Jake Parker @agenemachine.bsky.social Protein engineer (Rosetta/ML/wet lab) working on a NewCo building targeted chemotherapy for solid tumours (esp. PDAC) using ADEPT — loops and buried polar groups are a feature, not a bug.
Guillermo Nevot @nevoti.bsky.social Postdoc at Marc Güell's lab at UPF Barcelona | Engineering the microbiome to understand (and treat) the skin 🦠 #SynBio | Alumni LPI (former CRI) & UniZar | 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
More info: www.gnevot.xyz
Leo Scheller @leoscheller.bsky.social Immunotherapy, CAR-T, Protein Design, Synthetic biology, Cell Signaling.
Head of Research Group | Structural Biochemistry | LIT
Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy
https://lit.eu/our-scientists/dr-leo-scheller/
Nicolas Lobato-Dauzier @lobatodauzier.bsky.social 🇫🇷🇲🇽 Assoc. Prof. @SorbonneU Paris, in Biophysics | DNA nanotechnology 🧬 🤖Active Matter ⚙️🌊 | Microfluidics💧🔬| formerly @UTokyo 🍂 🇯🇵
Erik Poppleton @poppleton.phd Postdoc working on RNA Nanotech & MD simulations @uniheidelberg.bsky.social & MPIP. GROMACS wrangler, oxDNA developer, @molpigs.bsky.social podcast host, and all around weird lil guy.
Has been known to post about music and neat bugs found in the woods.
Mathias Voges @mvoges.bsky.social Research Scientist in ML+Bio | Stanford Ph.D. | Google X
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
John Lindner @johnmlindner.bsky.social Molecular Immunologist
TCRs, BCRs, and their ligands
Head of Immunology Discovery at BioMed X
Heidelberg, Germany and New Haven, CT
Khalid K. Alam خالد كمال عالم @khalidkalam.bsky.social Founder & CEO, Stemloop, Inc. | Cofounder, ChiTownBio | Muslim American (سلام) | Born in India | Raised in StL | Living in Chicago | Biochem PhD | #SynBio #CellFree #Biosensors #RNA #BioSky #Biotech #Startups
🔗 https://linktr.ee/khalidkalam
Gabriel Abrahams @gabriel-abrahams.bsky.social DPhil student in the Engineered Biotechnology Group, University of Oxford. https://steel.ac/
ORCID: 0000-0002-2360-7150
Guy-Bart Stan @gbstan.bsky.social Patent Examiner at European Patent Office, The Hague, NL. Professor of Biosystems Engineering and Control, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
Andreas Walther @waltherlab.bsky.social Professor in Mainz/GER for Life-Like Systems and Materials, Max Planck Fellow, Travel and Food Enthusiast 🧳, AvHumboldt Postdoc-Scout 📧 me
https://www.walther-group.com
Neil Dixon @biotechdixon.bsky.social Microbial engineering enthusiast. Synthetic Biology. Sustainable Biotechnology. Closing the carbon loop.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9065-6764
https://dixonlab.org
Xiaojing Gao @synbiogaolab.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Stanford ChemE
synthetic biology, biomolecular engineering
https://gaolab.blog/
Cristian Ruiz @biocriss.bsky.social #FirstGen | Synthetic Biologist |🇬🇹➡️🇨🇵➡️
Coffee, Running and Science
Interested in engineering and evolving microorganisms for new-to-nature capabilities
Kenneth Matreyek @kmatreyek.bsky.social Studying the functional impacts of protein sequence variants with mammalian synthetic biology and multiplex genetic assays. Assistant Prof in CLE, OH. www.matreyeklab.com- T Theresa Loveless @theresaloveless.bsky.social https://lovelesslab.blogs.rice.edu/
Mary Jia @maryjia.bsky.social Grad student in the Chory lab @ Duke developing mammalian syn bio systems using automation 🧬🤖✨
The Elowitz Lab at Caltech @elowitzlab.bsky.social Synthetic biology and systems biology. https://www.elowitz.caltech.edu
Josh Leonard @josh-leonard.bsky.social My group seeks to grow the field of synthetic biology, with a focus on making advanced gene and cell therapies useful and available to more people. Prof at Northwestern Chem & Biol. Engineering and Center for Synthetic Biology @TheLeonardLab on Twitter
Jay Shendure @jshendure.bsky.social shendure lab |. krishna.gs.washington.edu
Colleen Drapek @colleendrapek.bsky.social Trait Discovery Team Lead at Phytoform Labs | Former SLCU | Duke & BU alum | She/Her https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleendrapek/
Tanai Cardona @tanaicardona.bsky.social Reader in SynBio and Biotech @ QMUL, UKRI Futures Leaders Fellow, MA in Creative Writing from BirkbeckUoL. Evolution and #Synbio of #Photosynthesis 🌵🌺
Chris Wan @chrisjwan.bsky.social Synbio, origins of life. Postdoc at the Francis Crick Institute
Brian Weaver @brianweaver.bsky.social Molecular & Synthetic Biologist at The Fynder Group. Interested in industrial uses of filamentous fungi, enzymes, protein engineering, & biocatalysis. Formerly Corteva Agriscience, UWMadison and ValpoU.
Trevor Nicks @biotechalchemist.bsky.social Synthetic Biologist & Biotechnology Engineer in Portland, OR | Potter, pianist, & powerlifter | Co-Founder & CTO at Caravel Bio |