Sandra Tretter @sandratretter.bsky.social PhD student at @MPI_CE Lise Meitner Research Group Social Behavior, working with ants ๐๐ง ๐ฆ 
EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social Posts about jobs, conferences, etc. from the Evolution Directory (EvolDir) mailing list https://evoldir.net, run by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social
Ali Hakimzadeh @bioinfo94.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher in Max Planck Institute for marine microbiology
#Bioinformatics
Developing pipelines and custom modules for multiomics data analysis of microbiome, cancer and environmental data
HIFMB @hifmb.de HIFMB develops the scientific basis for marine conservation & ecosystem management by analysing the functional role of biodiversity in marine ecosystems.
Louison Nicolas-Asselineau @louison-nicolas.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology studying denitrifying endosymbionts associated with protist hosts ๐ฆ 
Anna Schrecengost @annaschreck.bsky.social postdoc at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography studying marine anaerobic ciliates & their prokaryotic symbionts | she/her
Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social Microbial symbionts in marine ecosystems. Associate professor at U. Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography. Beinartlab.com. Posts reflect only my personal view and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.
Felix Javier @felixjavier.bsky.social PhD student at UConn EEB || NSF GRFP Fellow ||Copepods, Inverts, Genomics, Evolution and Science Communication || ๐ต๐ท๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Eman Etoom @emanetoom.bsky.social Mom of two โค๏ธ
PhD Student I Biomedical Sciences PhD program | College of Medicine and Health Sciences | Department of Genetics and Genomics
Mike McCormick @geomikerobe.bsky.social Geomicrobiologist
Katy Lambert-Slosarska @katyls.bsky.social Marine microbiologist looking at rapid microorganism evolution through the lens of diversity-generating retroelements
PhD candidate in the Meren lab
Leander @leanderkrug.bsky.social M.Sc. student @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social | fascinated by microbial motility, especially in diatoms | B.Sc. research in AG Kroth Lab
Lars Eicholt @lacholt.bsky.social molecular evolution.
Sergio Muรฑoz-Gรณmez @sergiophyceae.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Purdue University | Evolution of Cells, Symbionts, & Organelles | ecsolab.com
Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social Palaeobiologist interested in biodiversity patterns over long timescales ๐
Postdoc at @gfz.bsky.social ๐ฉ๐ช
Co-chair of @besmacro.bsky.social, member of @paleodb.bsky.social committee and @palaeoverse.bsky.social dev team ๐ฉโ๐ป
She/her
Osterman Ilya @ostermanilya.bsky.social Senior Research Associate in the Sorek Lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Since August 2026, Group Leader at EMBL Hamburg.
https://www.embl.org/groups/osterman/
Aileen Berasategui @berasymbionts.bsky.social Group Leader at The Sainsbury Laboratory | Chemical ecology of insect-microbe interactions ๐ชฒ๐ ๐งฌ๐ช๐ธ๐ช๐บ| PI of @ERC_Research: SymPathy
Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social Citizen of the world, Spanish. Passionate about marine contagious cancers at @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.socialโฌ (Minerva Fast Track fellow, Germany) | #FWIS awardee | #LINO23 alumni | #MSCA alumni
Ecological Genomics MPIMM @ecologicalgenomics.bsky.social Ecological Genomics Research Group @Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Posts by @cotoorellana.bsky.social
Marie-Caroline Mรผller @mariecmueller.bsky.social Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institut for Marine Microbiology - Microbial Metabolism group | Stuctural biology, Methanogens, Archaea | she/her
Sarah Worsley @sarahfworsley.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow @ University of East Anglia. Interested in the evolutionary ecology of host-microbe interactions. Microbiomes, phylosymbiosis, viromics, island populations.
Gaurav Raturi @raturi.bsky.social Microbiologist exploring plant microbial interactions | crop microbiome | Rhizosphere engineering | Metagenomics | Symbiosis |Microbial Ecology #Mycorrhiza #Rhizobium #legumes #postdoctoral_research_associate ๐บ๐ธ
Marleny Garcรญa Lozano @marlenygarcial.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Lausanne ๐จ๐ญ
https://engelbeelab.com/
PhD from Max Planck Institute for Biology
@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Ashley Dungan, PhD (she/her) @symb10sis.bsky.social Conservation microbiome scientist | Using microbes to improve wildlife health, resilience & conservation outcomes | Hostโmicrobe evolution | University of Melbourne, Australia
Luรญs M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social Disease ecology ๐ฆ | Parasite evolution ๐งฌ| Postdoc with @kayla-king.bsky.social at UBC ๐จ๐ฆ | Music geek and art lover | he/him | ๐ต๐น
๐Vancouver, CA
https://luis-m-silva.com/
#IDSky #DiversityInSTEM #FirstGen #OpenScience
PaulGM @paulgmock.bsky.social Msc Marine Microbiology @ MPI Bremen.
Love the ocean, molecular biology, microbial ecology and natural history, also an avid ant fan :) ๐๏ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฆฃ
Maryse Berkhout @maryseberkhout.bsky.social Microbes & glycans ๐คฉ | Gut Microbial Ecology | Wageningen University, NL | https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=PhNYBVUAAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=ao
Jeffrey Marlow @jjmarlow.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston University ::: Science Journalist / Communicator ::: National Geographic Explorer
@marinemicrobiome.bsky.social @marinemicrobiome.bsky.social 
Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social Microbial evangelist and podcaster. Husband, father, moderate. Emeritus Associate Professor after June 2026. Looking for what is next that sparks microbial joy.
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.
Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social The Sorek Lab
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/molgen/Sorek/
Lauren Queiss @lqueiss.bsky.social Fascinated by viruses, virus-virus interactions, & all things EM ๐ฌ
@mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
#Virus #Vesicles #Microscopy #Microbes #Bacteria #Archaea #Protists
Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professor of marine biology. My social media does not represent my employer. No AI. Do not train AI off my work. Please bring croissants ๐ฅ
https://linktr.ee/rebeccarhelm
Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas.
https://www.alexanderwild.com
Katie Millar @katiemillar.bsky.social PhD Researcher of the Medfly microbiota at UEA.
โข Researching host-microbe symbioses in Tephritid flies.
โข Also a big fan of statistics, modelling and programming #RStats.
โข Other interests are teaching in HE, science outreach and engagement.
Isidora Morel-Letelier @isimorel.bsky.social PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology studying the eco-evolutionary dynamics of bacterial symbionts
Luis Orellana (Coto) @cotoorellana.bsky.social Microbial Ecology and Evolution | Investigating microbes through the eyes of ones and zeros
Group Leader @ Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
๐จ๐ฑโ๐บ๐ธโ๐ฉ๐ช #Fulbright #ERCStG
Kaiser Lab @clocksevolution.bsky.social Evolution, ecology & biological clocks - with a focus on lunar rhythms
in development & reproduction of the marine insect Clunio.
+ Genomics | Biodiversity | Behaviour | NeuroBio | MolBio | SciCom
bit.ly/KaiserLab
@mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
Maria Elena Martino @memartino.bsky.social Ecology, Evolution & Microbiology. Wondering how microbes and animals evolve together ๐ฆ ๐งซ๐๐๐
Associate Professor University of Padua
KevinDKohl @kevindkohl.bsky.social I study the physiology and gut microbiome of wild vertebrates ๐ธ๐ญ๐ฉ๐ฆ
Assoc. Professor at University of Pittsburgh - #QueerSTEM ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ #poly - he/him
Kostas Kormas ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฆญ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐งช๐งฌ๐ โ๏ธ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @kkormas.bsky.social Awed by tiny creatures!!
Host-Microbe Interactions MSc http://hosmic.uth.gr
Prof. @ https://www.uth.gr/en
All CV stuff โก๏ธ https://linktr.ee/kkormas
Fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology
@mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social delegate โก๏ธ FEMS
Jerry Maeda @jerrymaeda.bsky.social 
Rogier Braakman @rogierbraakman.bsky.social Studying metabolic evolution, microbial macroevolution, biospheric self-organization, and the feedbacks between Earth and life. Dad, Husband, Scientist.
https://rogierbraakman.com/
Tobias Engl @tcsengl.bsky.social Evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, symbiosis, ๐๐๐ฆ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
@MPI_CE
Lukas Schrader @shaggyschrader.bsky.social I like ants. I like TEs.
Evolutionary Biologist at the Institute for Evolution & Biodiversity (University of Mรผnster)
schraderl.github.io
Patrick Cramer @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de President of the Max Planck Society since 2023 โ dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of society. | @maxplanck.de
๐ https://www.mpg.de/praesident
๐ www.mpg.de/imprint
Dr. Kat Napaaqtukโ๏ธ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social Inupiaq, scientist of host-microbe interactions, mom, runner, news junkie, not necessarily in that order. I speak for myself. She/her. Only reskeets posts with alt text. Unapologetically typo prone, doesn't use AI.
Michael Cunliffe ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @marinemicrobes.bsky.social Director of Science & Senior Research Fellow at the Marine Biological Association l Professor of Marine Microbiology at the University of Plymouth l Fascinated by the microbial world and other marine life
Vanderville Villegas @vanvillegas.bsky.social PhD candidate at Leibniz IGB / FU Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช: evolutionary ecology, host-microbiome interactions, ecotox | UTokyo ๐ฏ๐ต: environmental contamination and toxicology | UP ๐ต๐ญ: Chemical Engineering. ๐
Lukas Helmlinger @helm-linger.bsky.social PhD Student at University of Vienna, working in endosymbiosis in dictyosteldis (aka social amoebae)
A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social Professor of Ecosystem Data Science at @hifmb.bsky.social studying the ecology and evolution of microbes through high-resolution 'omics and #anvio
Philip Leftwich @philipleftwich.bsky.social Assoc Prof @uniofeastanglia
Scientist
Biology / Genetics / Rstats
Jรฉrรดme Benedetti @jeromebenedetti.bsky.social PhD student in the Engel Lab @ University of Lausanne, Switzerland | Studying hostโmicrobe symbiosis in social bees and their gut microbiota ๐๐ฆ 
iela Santiago @ielasantiago.bsky.social ecology and evolution of microbes and their hosts ๐ฆ ๐ญ | PhD candidate @ Dartmouth Biological Sciences | MBiol alum @ Oxford Biology | she/her/siya ๐บ
Noรฉmie Claveyroles @noemieclaveyroles.bsky.social French Postdoc at the University of Miami ๐ฆ
Bacterial-host symbiosis and natural products ๐งช๐ชฑ๐
Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social Experimental ecology and evolution | microbes | evolution of metabolic interactions | cooperation | bacterial multicellularity.
Judy Li (ๆ้่ฟช) @jingdi.bsky.social Passionate about wildlife microbiomes and disease emergence. NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow ๐จ๐ฆUBC Zoology with @kayla-king.bsky.social, PhD ๐ฌ๐งOxford Zoology, BS ๐จ๐ณNPU. #poetry #art #coding #hiking lovers. #FirstGen #OpenScience. She/Hers.
Shumpei Maruyama @shumpeim.bsky.social Studying the cell biology and evolution of cnidarian-algal symbiosis
Postdoc at UC Berkeley | Incoming Assistant Professor Reed College @reed.edu
Aldo Arellano ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @aldoaarellano.bsky.social Postdoc interested in microbial ecology and symbiosis | NSF-GRF | HHMI Gilliam Fellow | he/him ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐| https://aldoaarellano.github.io/
Germรกn Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social ๐ฆ ๐งช๐ฅ๐งฌmicrobial ecology & evolution | agricultural microbiomes | food security | metabolism | ๐๐บ host-microbe interactions | functional -omics | bioinformatics | salsa | philosophy | equality | UNAM | mSystems / mBio
polyimmigrant! ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ธ๐ช๐ฆ๐บ๐จ๐ญ
Dave Baltrus ๐ฆฆ @surtlab.bsky.social Professor at UArizona interested in genome rummaging, microbial evolution, and occasional tales about having backyard farm animals.
โIโm something of a scientist myselfโ
Baltrus(at)Arizona.edu
Bibek Parajuli๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๐ต @bibekbugs.bsky.social Postdoctoral research associate in the Coon lab at the University of Wisconsin Madison
I study evolutionary and ecological dynamics underlying insect microbe interactions. #FirstGen
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5Ta40O4AAAAJ&hl=en
Tyler J. Carrier @tylerjcarrier.bsky.social Developmental and evolutionary ecologist studying marine invertebrates and their symbionts.
Phillip Cleves @pcleves.bsky.social Symbiosis, cell and developmental biology, and corals.
Assistant Professor in Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development at UC-Berkeley.
Laila Phillips @lailaephillips.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Moran Lab, UT-Austin, USA ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Currently investigating host-microbe symbiosis in Drosophila ๐ชฐ
lailaep.github.io
Scott Nichols @scottnichols.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biology @ University of Denver. Sponges, evolution, cell biology. 
Keertana Tallapragada @keertana.bsky.social In a symbiosis with aphids and their bacteria in Parker lab. PhD candidate @UNCBio. She/Her
Personal website:
https://sites.google.com/view/keertana-tallapragada/home
Bob Kuhn @kuhnbobio.bsky.social High school biotech teacher at Innovation Academy HS Interested in Wolbachia, arthropod/microbe symbiosis, and soil phages. Currently studying sex ratio distorters in A vulgare pullbugs in the US. https://sites.google.com/view/room223/classroom-research
Manuel Liebeke @manuelliebeke.bsky.social Professor for Metabolomics, Kiel University and Head of Metabolic Interactions group, Max Planck Inst. for Marine Microbiology #spatialMetabolomics #host-microbe #metabolomics #massspec #hostmicrobe #spatialbiology #coffeelover 
Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social Molecular Evolutionary Biologist. Professor at Colorado State University Department of Biology. Personal account. Opinions my own (as if anyone else would want them).
https://sites.google.com/site/danielbsloan
Heidi Goodrich-Blair @hgblair.bsky.social Microbiologist with a special fondness for symbiosis and certain nematodes.
Jillian Lewis @jillianlewis.bsky.social UConn PhD candidate studying microbes + squid eggs ๐ฆ
Scientist by training, swamp thing by nature
she/her ๐๐งถ๐ฅ๐ธ๐งช๐บ๐๐ชป๐งฌ๐ฌ
Kayla King, Ph.D. @kayla-king.bsky.social Prof & Canada Excellence Research Chair | UBC Zoology, M&I | Evolution, ecology, host-pathogen, biodiversity | #firstgen | she/her/hers
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/
Dan Bruzzese @bruzecruise.bsky.social Yale postdoc studying tsetse flies and their symbionts. Spiroplasma + Wigglesworthia + Wolbachia.
Julia Wucherpfennig @jwucherpfennig.bsky.social Postdoc in Lehmann lab at Whitehead studying Drosophila-Wolbachia | PhD in Kingsley lab at Stanford on skeletal evolutionary genetics
Jun B. Cai @junbcai.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Weis lab, Oregon State University | Interested in cellular and molecular mechanisms of cnidarian-algal symbiosis ๐ชธ
Website: https://symbioticjun.squarespace.com
Grace Zhong | ้ๅ็ฅ @gracezhong.bsky.social obsessed with symbiosis
postdoc @ keeling lab
prev. phd student in @prakashlab.bsky.social
Sarah Hird, PhD @sarahhird.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Connecticut studying evolution & bird microbiomes. More importantly: Iโm an aspiring anti-racist, raging feminist & trying to ACT NOW on the climate crisis. Please read The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg et al.
Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social Assistant Professor@ASU | Microbial behaviour and interactions at the Microscale
https://www.microbialeco.systems/
Anistynn Mendez @mendezoa.bsky.social Graduate student at Arizona State University in the McCutcheon Lab. Interested in long-term obligate endosymbiosis and fluorescent microscopy.
Sandra Montaรฑo Salazar @sandramontano.bsky.social PhD student understanding Waminoa symbiosis. Coral reef scientist ๐ชธ. Microbial ecologist at University of Vienna, @dome-vienna.bsky.social. Dancer too!
Ben Parker @ben-parker.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UNC Chapel Hill Biology. Symbiosis, immunity, evolution, insects
Parkerlab.net
Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social #newPI @ TX State leading the Symbiommunity Lab.
Eco-evo-immunologist interested in immune variation, host-symbiont dynamics
๐ & ๐ mom; Posts my own. 
Andrรฉ Luiz de Oliveira @de-oliveira86.bsky.social Postdoc researcher at MPI for Marine Microbiology investigating gutless worms (Eco-Evo-Devo/Developmental Symbiosis/ Bioinformatics)
Zoe Dellaert @zdellaert.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ she/her - PhD Candidate, Putnam Lab, URI | corals, microscopy + biological responses to climate change | previously: technician @ibaums Lab | UChicago + @mblscience Ecology and Evolution
Rupinder Kaur, PhD @kaurr.bsky.social Assistant Professor @UIC
Studying Host-Symbiont-Virus Interactions in ๐ชฐ and ๐ฆ #Wolbachia #ChromatinBiology #Epigenetics #Spermatogenesis #Embryogenesis #Microscopy
She/her
@thunterbio.bsky.social @thunterbio.bsky.social 
Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Georgia + Associate Director of UGA Institute of Bioinformatics. Marine Biology, Polar Science, Deep-Sea Worms (nematodes!), Environmental Genomics, and Science Writing. Views are my own. http://www.hollybik.com
@coralsymbiomix.bsky.social @coralsymbiomix.bsky.social 
Mรณnica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social Mom. Coral reef scientist and environmentalist. Host-microbe interactions. Anthropocene coral holobionts. Diversity in STEM advocate. Former fencer. Diver. Sailor wannabe. medinalab.org, redcientificacol.org ๐จ๐ด, diversifyoceansciences.org, spawnwatch.org
Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social Personal account, views are mine alone. Coevolution researcher: www.whitemanlab.org / Author: www.mostdeliciouspoison.com / Professor + Head, Division of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development, Molecular & Cell Biology, UC-Berkeley / ๐ โฎ๏ธ ๐๏ธ.
Alison Gould @algould.bsky.social Marine biologist | Microbiologist | Evolutionary ecologist
Host-microbe interactions | #TeamFish
Assistant Professor at Temple University
Research Associate at Cal Academy
https://gouldlab.squarespace.com
Derrick Kamp @kampamycin.bsky.social they/he | Visualizing host-microbe interactions | Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Austin | derrickkamp.com
Spencer Nyholm @spencernyholm.bsky.social University of Connecticut
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Symbiosis
Mark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist focused on microbe-animal communication. Professor UW-Madison. Messages are my personal views.
Luella Allen-Waller (she/her) @symbioecology.bsky.social Symbiosis & climate ๐ Chicago Fellow postdoc at UChicago Ecology & Evolution w/ Dakota McCoy & Cathy Pfister. Previously: PhD with Katie Barott at Penn Biology
Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social Scientist, Huck Professor: Microbiome, Virome, Symbiosis, Evolution, Genetics, Phylosymbiosis, Holobiont, Wolbachia, Phage | Director of One Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social | SciEd: @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social | @holobiontbiology.bsky.social
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