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Modell lab @jwmodell.bsky.social 
Alice Maestri @alicemaestri.bsky.social Postdoc Institut Pasteur - evolution of bacteria and MGEs
Rafael Pinilla-Redondo (Rafa) @rafomics.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at Copenhagen University. Excited about phages, plasmids, and bacterial immunity!👨🔬🔬 https://pinillaredondolab.com/
@saadlee.bsky.social @saadlee.bsky.social 
Emily Goodall @emgoodall.bsky.social Post Doc in the van Houte lab, Uni of Exeter
Bacterial genetics | high-throughput functional genetics screening
Afif Jati @afifjati.bsky.social PhD student at Trevor Lithgow's group Monash BDI. Facultative bioinformatician who in love with phages and their dark matters.
Daan Speth @daanspeth.bsky.social Computational microbiologist. Senior scientist at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at.
Microbial ecology, mostly of nitrogen cycle microbes, and data driven physiology.
Maintainer of the GlobDB genome database https://globdb.org
Shaharn Cameron @shaharnc.bsky.social PhD Candidate in the Fineran Lab - studying the type I-D CRISPR-Cas system 🦠👩🏼🔬
📍University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ 🇳🇿
Sophia Goladze @sophiagol.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Jyväskylä 🇫🇮
Interested in Phage-Bacterium-Host Interactions 🧬👩🔬
Believer of Open Science
Supporter of Phage Therapy
Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social BBSRC Fellow | Uni of Birmingham
Assistant Features Editor | The Plant Cell
Investigating how chromatin influences plant adaptation to stress and environmental memory
Anna Olina @annaolina.bsky.social Postdoc in Westra lab, University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK
Interested in host-MGE and MGE-MGE interactions.
💛Temperate phages!
Dmitry Ghilarov @dghilarov.bsky.social Cryo-EM ❄️🔬 | Molecular machines & mechanisms 🧬 | Associate professor @oxfordbiochemistry ghilarovlab.com
Hannah Bonham @hanarb.bsky.social 🔬 Microbiologist & Lab Manager | Phage-host interactions @ Dragoš Lab, University of Ljubljana | Horizon WIDERA Fellow | Molecular biology, bacteriophages, Bacillus subtilis
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.
Tess M McBride @tessmcbride.bsky.social Biochemist and mycologist studying fungal secreted proteins and their role in mycorrhizal formation 🍄 Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford 🌿 Kiwi working in the UK. She/her.
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 🦠
Nathalie Bechon @nbechon.bsky.social Researcher at INSERM on gut microbiota, phage-bacteria interaction and mobile genetic elements.
Bacteria stick together, why can't we?
Aisling Brady @aislingbrady.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool 👩🔬 you’ll probably find me talking about Salmonella and phages 🧫 or running 🏃♀️ or drinking coffee ☕️ or a beer 🍺 she/her 👩🏻🦰
Colin Buttimer @colinthb.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @ APC Microbiome Institute | PhD in Microbiology; GitHub: ColinTHB;
APC Microbiome Institute
Marian Dominguez-Mirazo @mariandm.bsky.social PhD student, Georgia Tech; Based at U of Maryland
Phage ecology, Computational biology
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social Interested in all things phages and microbiology. Post-doc at the University of Bern in Terrestrial Ecology and Theoretical Ecology and Evolution.
Peter Fineran @peterfineran.bsky.social Prof. and Head of Phage-host interactions (Phi) lab. Phage defences, counter-defences, CRISPR-Cas, toxin-antitoxin. FRSNZ / James Cook Fellow
Maria Tomas (Maria Del Mar Tomas) @mariadelmartom.bsky.social MD Microbiologist A Coruña Hospital (SERGAS). Coordinator of Microbiology Traslational and Multidisciplinary group (MicroTM-INIBIC). #Phagetherapy #Phagebiology #CRISPR #AMR #AntimicrobialTolerance #PersisterCell
@nayeimkhan.bsky.social @nayeimkhan.bsky.social Microbiome | Computational metagenomics | Bioinformatics | Gut Microbiome and Human Health interplay enthusiast
Rhiannon Lyon @rhiannonlyon.bsky.social Phage researcher at the University of Glasgow
Uli Klümper @ulikluemper.bsky.social Microbial Ecologist @ TU Dresden
Focusing on Evolution, Ecology and Environmental dimensions of AMR & plasmids
Formerly @ DTU & UoExeter
He/him
Kévin Huguet @kevinhuguet.bsky.social Environmental & Molecular Microbiologist | Associate Professor @univlorraine.bsky.social, @LCPME_CNRS | Mobile Genetic Elements addict | HGT, Phenotypic Heterogeneity, AMR, Single Cell Analysis, Tn-seq
Sylvia Hayes @sylviahayes.bsky.social Research Fellow in Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science
📍University of Exeter
🔎Climate communication, visual imagery, media
🌐https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/35888-sylvia-hayes
✉️s.hayes3@exeter.ac.uk
Veronica White @veronicaawhite.bsky.social Visual communicator and environmental social scientist • Photographer and Adventurer • PhD researcher cycling across England to explore visions for the future of farming
Aleksei Agapov @alekseiagapov.bsky.social postdoc at van Houte lab, University of Exeter
Maryse Berkhout @maryseberkhout.bsky.social Microbes & glycans 🤩 | Gut Microbial Ecology | Wageningen University, NL | https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=PhNYBVUAAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=ao
Hanareia Ehau-Taumaunu, PhD @hanareiaehau.bsky.social Scientist/Researcher based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Mad about plant microbes 🌱🦠, mātauranga Māori, and Indigenous data sovereignty
Whakapapa to Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Uepōhatu, Te Ātiawa, & Te Whānau-ā-Apanui 🖤🤍❤️
Jakob T Rostøl @jakob-tr.bsky.social Research fellow at Imperial College London
GrahamBirch @grahambirch.bsky.social Newly qualified Dr of mongooses studying mate competition, costs of reproduction & parental investment in male banded mongooses
@UniExeCornwall @GW4plusDTP
Looking for jobs!
meerkatsandbeyond.wordpress.com/
instagram.com/birch.graham/
James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social Writing a book about horizontal gene transfer and non treelike evolution. Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology. Pangenomes. https://profmcinerney.substack.com/ 🇮🇪 https://mol-evol.github.io/
Faye Thompson @fayejthompson.bsky.social NERC Independent Research Fellow at University of Exeter, Cornwall
Intergroup conflict | Cooperation | Social evolution | Termites | Banded mongooses
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. - K Gavin Knott @knottrna.bsky.social
Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social Prof @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social Connecting pathogen evolution with public health outcomes. #Shigella and #AMR enthusiast. Views own. http://gen.cam.ac.uk/baker-group also www.pdu.gen.cam.ac.uk also @pducambridge.bsky.social
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
Grainger Lab @graingerlab.bsky.social Bacterial chromosome biology, gene expression, pathogenicity... and football.
www.graingerlab.com 
Elisa Visher (they/she) @evisher.bsky.social Current postdoc fellow with the Petrov and Sherlock labs at Stanford. Previous PhD with Mike Boots at Berkeley.
<3 experimental evolution
<3 trade-offs
<3 microbes and viruses
<3 population genetics
<3 evolutionary ecology
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.
MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social Microbial Evolution Research at The University of Manchester
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/merman/
Leah Smith @leahmsmith.bsky.social Research Fellow at University of Otago NZ interested in phages, biofilms, genomics, CRISPR & phage therapy
Jean-Paul Pirnay @jeanpaulpirnay.bsky.social Queen Astrid military hospital #phage / #phagetherapy / human cell and tissue #transplantation / my opinions are, of course, my own
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
Nils Birkholz @nilsbirkholz.bsky.social Molecular microbiologist investigating bacterial defence systems and mobile genetic elements. Research Fellow in the Fineran Lab. 🇳🇿
University of Exeter @exeter.ac.uk Exeter is a world class research institution. Our teaching and learning is rated TEF Triple Gold.
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!
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.
David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social Bacterial Immunity and Synthetic Biology enthusiast. Head of Lab at Institut Pasteur. Co-Founder of Eligo Bioscience.
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.
David Gerlach @dger.bsky.social Postdoc in bacterial systems biology in the Heilbronner lab, LMU. Previously Peschel lab and Brochado lab.
Will Gaze @willhgaze.bsky.social Microbiologist, AMR, environmental scientist, communicating science to people who make things happen
James Orr @jamesaorr.bsky.social DECRA fellow at the University of Queensland | microbial ecology, theoretical ecology, multiple stressors, community dynamics | https://jamesaorr.github.io
Environment Network Manawatū @enviromanawatu.bsky.social Environment Network Manawatū is a network of over 60 member organisations that fosters and encourages environmental initiatives in the Manawatū river catchment. https://www.enm.org.nz/
CRISPR 2026 @crisprmeeting.bsky.social The longest running international CRISPR conference, established in 2008. CRISPR 2026 will be held from June 10 - 12 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social Hank Seifert is a Professor at Northwestern Medical School in Chicago. I'm interested in everything, particularly bacteria, but our group studies the Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilus—antigenic variation and functions. 
Nathan Brown @nmb1.bsky.social Microbiologist working on phages and the skin microbiome
Anupama Khare @anukharelab.bsky.social Avid reader. Mom. Scientist @NIH. All opinions are my own.
Richard Lindsay @richardlindsay.bsky.social Research Fellow at the University of Exeter working on microbial ecology and evolution. Investigating the evolution of cooperation, virulence, metabolism and antimicrobial resistance
Bram van Dijk 🏳️🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social Assistant professor at Utrecht University (Theoretical Biology). Simulating microbes, mobile elements, horizontal gene transfer, and whatever else happens on a grain of sand | 🏳️🌈 | he / they | thevirtuallaboratory.com
Cathy Hernandez @cathyhernandez.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina | bacteria x (pro)phage x environment | hdzlab.com
Zoltan Erdos @zerdos.bsky.social Postdoc at Buckling lab, University of Exeter
Experimental evolution of microbial communities,
Evolution of virulence of invertebrate pathogens,
in bicicletta,🚲
Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social The other “Susie” Wiles AKA NZ’s “COVID lady/Pink Terror”. Microbiologist & science communicator, lover of bioluminescence & Lego. Becoming slightly obsessed with reusable period products despite being perimenopausal. She/her.
Lindsey Burbank @lindseyburbank.bsky.social Agriculture, plants, and microbiology in California 
Pedro Vale @pfvale.bsky.social Ecology & Evolution of Infection Dynamics lab, Edinburgh, UK https://pedrovale.bio.ed.ac.uk/
Rubén González @rubengonzalez.bsky.social Viral Infections and Virus Evolution.
A happy postdoctoral researcher at @salehlabparis.bsky.social, Institut Pasteur (Paris, France).
https://gonzalezrvirus.com
Olav Aga @olavaga.bsky.social Infomatician and medical student at University of Bergen. Researching the evolution of antimicrobial resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae. He/him
Sultan Nazir (he/him) @sultannazir.bsky.social PhD candidate in Theoretical Biology at Utrecht University
Interested in mathematical and computational models of microbial ecology and evolution. Working on phages/viruses.
sultannazir.github.io
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸✊🏾
Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility. https://zam-iqbal-lab.org/
Meaghan Castledine @mcastd.bsky.social NERC IRF 🦠 all things PHAGE and microbial communities 🧫🔬 I also have a dog and enjoy nerdy things 🧝🏻♀️
Leighton Payne @leightonpayne.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher // Section of Microbiology, University of Copenhagen // Anti-MGE systems 🦠⚔️
leightonpayne.com
Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social Synthetic Biologist, Protein and Genome Engineer, Microbe and Fungi Fan
www.billerbecklab.com
Marjon de Vos @lizscurious.bsky.social Cares about tiny things in a larger context
Assoc. prof @uniGroningen
Microbiology, ecology, evolution
#AMR, #UTI
microbecoevo.com
Max Wilkinson @maxewilkinson.bsky.social keen on reverse transcription | also keen on spliceosomes | cryoEM dabbler
Assistant Member @MSKCC
Formerly post-doc @MIT
Formerly-formerly PhD @MRC_LMB
Formerly formerly-formerly Otago Uni
Kiwi 🥝 🇳🇿
https://wilkinsonlab.bio/
Jasmine Ono @jtono.bsky.social Yeast match-maker. BBSRC Discovery Fellow and Assistant Prof at the Uni of Nottingham.
Rowan Green @rowancallumg.bsky.social Postdoc studying viral social evolution with @asherleeks.bsky.social | previously @mermanchester.bsky.social | mutagenesis | bacteria | viruses | big R nerd 🧬🦠💻
🏳️⚧️ He/Him
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.
Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social Virus evolution, ecology and host shifts. Fly zookeeper. Insect rhabdovirus geek. Tea Junkie. Like music, food, bikes. Lab website: www.benlongdon.com
John Bruce @jbbruce.bsky.social Evolution*microbes
postdoc @UniversityofStrathclyde currently working on phage defence in Streptomyces
Lewis C. E. Mason @lewiscemason.bsky.social Lecturer in Microbiology | He/Him | Medical Microbiology | Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) | Genomic Epidemiology | Sexually Transmissible Infections | Bioinformatics | Public Health | Views are my own | Following ≠ endorsing
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
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.
Dina Hochhauser @dinahoch.bsky.social PhD student @SorekLab @WeizmannScience studying phage-bacteria interactions 🦠, MGEs 🛒 & defence islands 🛡🏝
Dipa Sashital @dsashital.bsky.social Professor of Biochemistry at Iowa State University. Exploring CRISPR biology, mechanisms and structures
Barbara Tschirren @btschirren.bsky.social Associate Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Exeter (Cornwall). Interested in the ecology & evolution of health and disease, life history evolution, cross-generational effects, and more. 🐭🐣🐦🦡🦟🦠🧪🧬🌻🐈🐓⛰️
Graduate School of Environment and Sustainability @exetergses.bsky.social Help lead a global Greener, Healthier and Fairer revolution by studying one of our world-leading, interdisciplinary Masters degrees here at the University of Exeter, Cornwall 🌍 exeter.ac.uk/study/gses
Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social Scientist working on antibiotic resistance, evolution, and mobile genetic elements. Prof at U.Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College 
Alison Mather @alisonmather.bsky.social Epidemiology, microbial (meta)genomics, antimicrobial resistance, One Health, Professor of Microbial Genomic Epidemiology at Quadram Institute Bioscience & University of East Anglia.
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social Evolutionary genomics, genetic conflict, (micro)chimerism. Long-read sequencing proselytiser. 🇺🇸→ 🇳🇿 →🇺🇸 (sigh). Personal account.
https://ecoevo.social/@elizostrow
Emma Denham @gingermicrobe.bsky.social Running my lab of unruly 🧫🦠, trying to unravel the world of noncoding RNA and building a sustainable bioconcrete by day 🧬🧱
🍰🐎🧶 tea/gin, courgette 👩🌾 at all other times🦒😴👩🦰and OliCat😽💉
Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social Lecturer at Bangor University. Environmental virologist, working on phages. Scientific illustrator. Shop: http://redbubble.com/people/Jellie Website: https://elliejameson.wordpress.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNM-pdh9jd
Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social Sci-Comm | Researcher @kurzgesagt.org | she/her 🦠🧫🔬 | Tell your cat I said PSPSPSPS
Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Editor at Microbial Genomics & mBio, Scouse, interested in Streptomyces, Evolution, Antibiotics, AMR, microbiology, Phage, herpetology, Cricket, EvertonFC
Jeremy Barr @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social Bacteriophage biologist and enthusiast. Associate Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, Monash University.
Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social Evo-ecologist (Assoc Prof at UC Berkeley) studying interactions among phages, microbiomes, and plants. Skeets (own view) about science, teaching, social justice, and politics. (profile pic unedited photo by my six-year-old son)
Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social Reader (Associate Professor) in Microbiology at the University of Warwick, UK.
Biofilm, chronic infection and ancientbiotics.
https://www.youtube.com/@BreakingBiofilm