Laura Santamaría Rubio @laurasanrub.bsky.social 
Lotte Jelsbak @lottejelsbak.bsky.social Associate professor at Roskilde University
Microbiology, Salmonella, E. coli, AMR, infectious disease
Sean Booth @s-booth.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Microbiology, University of Manitoba
Interbacterial Interactions
Starting fights with Pseudomonas
Views are my own
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Michael Sieber @michaelsieber.bsky.social Scientist @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social | Theoretical Biology | ecoevo.de
Wes Rogers @wesmd.bsky.social Infectious Diseases MD at NYU
#IDSky
Formerly fellow at WCM
Antibiotic Steward | Amateur Classicist
Pronomina: is/eius/ei/eum/eo
Mathilde Boumasmoud @mboum.bsky.social Postdoc at @ETH_en 👩🏽🔬👩🏽💻 🧐
Microbial evolution | Human microbiome ecology | Infectious disease epidemiology
Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social I study when and why evolution repeats itself
hannahrowland.co.uk
Chuen @chuenlee.bsky.social Ecologist, Microbiomes, Bioinformatics
Postdoc at University of East Anglia
Jie Deng @jie-eco.bsky.social Theoretical ecologist @ox.ac.uk
sites.google.com/view/dengjie
Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social 
@davidroper2.bsky.social @davidroper2.bsky.social Professor of Biochemistry at U.Warwick, UK. bacterial cell walls, cell division, antibiotic discovery and resistance mechanisms. I’m on
here for science just like @davidroper2. Views my own.
His name is Gus if you are wondering…
Nicole Lieberman, PhD @nicolelieberman.bsky.social Acting Assistant Professor of Lab Medicine at UW. Functional genomics and molecular epidemiology to study syphilis. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Dominique Chaput @dominiquechaput.bsky.social Microbial ecologist turned NHS Clinical Scientist in IPC @Scottish Microbiology Ref Labs, Glasgow. Works on built env / water microbiology, molecular diagnostics, pathogen surveillance, data viz/stats. Probably drinks too much coffee. 🇨🇦
Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist. Assistant Professor CCLCM/CWRU.
The Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution(OUP 2021) and The Paradox of the Organism (HUP 2025).
www.arvidagren.com
Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social Programmer (sometimes games, currently mostly not) and former microbiologist. Brit in Germany. Likes cats, tabletop RPGs, and F1. Trans rights are human rights.
Francois Lebreton @flebreton.bsky.social Director of bioinformatics at WRAIR-MRSN. Interests in microbial genomics, antimicrobial resistance and bacterial evolution.
Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com Nature Microbiology publishes the latest research and commentary in all areas of microbiology.
https://www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/
Lee Henry @henrylabsymbio.bsky.social Exploring endosymbiosis at Queen Mary University of London. Associate professor. Symbiosis, ecology, evolution, microbiology http://henry-lab.co.uk
Professor Mary J O'Connell @evol-molly.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist, Mammals, Phylogenies, Comparative Genomics, Art and Running
Lucy Weinert @lucyweinert.bsky.social Evolutionary genomics of bacteria
Merve Tepe, PhD @mervetepephds.bsky.social PhD MICROBIOLOGIST /
Phage Therapy, AMR, Biofilms, Drug Design and some other topics
@remissionbiome.bsky.social &
@renegaderesearch.bsky.social team
DEFEND SCIENCE, RESIST IGNORANCE
Ankara/Boston
Cristina Barragan @cbarragan.bsky.social Emmy Noether Junior Group Leader @CAU - Plants | Microbes | Evolution
www.barraganlab.com
Stije Leopold 🦠🔬💊 @stijeleopold.eurosky.social Infectious Disease Physician and Clinical Researcher #EmergingInfections #AcuteRespiratoryViruses #AdaptivePlatformTrials #DrugRepurposing #100DaysMission #UniversityofOxford #MORU Views are my own https://www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/team/stije-leopold
Lucy Blagden @lucyblagden.bsky.social PhD student | Cann lab, Durham University
Investigating proteins involved in bacterial post-mortem nutrient recycling
Katie Millar @katiemillar.bsky.social PhD Researcher of the Medfly microbiota at UEA.
• Researching host-microbe symbioses in Tephritid flies.
• Love statistics, modelling and programming #RStats.
Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social Consultant Clinical Microbiologist
Current interests: Bacteriophage therapy, AMR, hospital water and ventilation, Airborne pathogens, IAQ, Fresh Air in the NHS= ventilation + Culture change
Lots of gardens and hills too
Fiona Poulter @fionapoulter.bsky.social Bioinformatics PhD Student
University of Manchester
Whelan Lab
She/her
Researching the evolution of epidemic P. aeruginosa strains 🦠
Alison Wright @alielw.bsky.social Evolutionary geneticist with a particular interest in sexual dimorphism and sex chromosome evolution. Senior Lecturer at University of Sheffield www.alisonewright.co.uk
Patrick Goymer @patrickgoymer.bsky.social Life Sciences Division Editor at @plosone.org. Former Chief Editor of Nature Ecology & Evolution. Trustee at @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social.
orcid.org/0000-0002-2789-9373
Amber Cutcliffe @ambercutcliffe.bsky.social First-year BBSRC NWD PhD student | Exploring how commensal bacteria modulate Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence in the CF lung.
Florian Tesson @ftesson.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in @floravincent.bsky.social's lab at @embl.org
Formerly in @mdmlab.bsky.social
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
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Paul Fogg @pcmfogg.bsky.social Microbiology Lecturer at the University of York, studying all aspects of Phage Biology, Gene Transfer Agents, and Bacterial Evolution.
Adrian Cazares @cazares-adr.bsky.social Bacterial Mobile Evolution. Staff Scientist at Sanger Institute. I study how pathogens emerge and evolve by sharing genes. Interested in AMR, Plasmids, Phages, ICEs, and everything that moves within and between genomes.
José Aguilar-Rodríguez @jaguilarrod.bsky.social Evolutionary systems/cell biologist. EMBO and SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow with Dmitri Petrov and Dan Jarosz at Stanford. PhD with Andreas Wagner at the University of Zurich. Studying how molecular and cellular systems shape, and are shaped by, evolution.
Wendy Figueroa @wfigueroac3.bsky.social Postdoc @Cambridge University and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Pathogens evolution: Horizontal Gene Transfer🧬, Phages, Mutational hotspots, AMR, virulence 🇲🇽
Emma Banks @emmajbanks.bsky.social 1851 Royal Commission Research Fellow @JohnInnesCentre.bsky.social studying domesticated virus-like particles called gene transfer agents (GTAs).
Gretel Waugh @gretelwaugh.bsky.social Microbial generalist 🦠 | Keen freediver & birdwatcher | Reluctant #Rstats enthusiast | she/her
Ben Ashby @bnashby.bsky.social Professor in Math @ SFU, British Columbia | Scientific Director of PIPPS | Research: Eco-evolutionary theory ecoevotheory.com | Fun: hiking, biking, running, hockey...
Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman.bsky.social FT columnist. Also have podcast. Author of three and a half books. Four kids. Two cats. One wife. Numerous friends. Fulham fan.
Pilar Garcia-Vello @pilargvello.bsky.social Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Epidemiology
Working for Doctors without Borders #MSF
Former: #WHO #LSHTM #MarieCurieFellowship
#AMR #medsky #episky #microsky #aidsky #idsky
The Royal Society @royalsociety.org The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
https://royalsociety.org/
Katharina Kujala @kkujala.bsky.social Environmental microbiologist, Senior researcher @Natural Resources Institute Finland. Research interests: peatlands, microbial ecology of arctic ecosystems and use of microbes in waste(water) treatment.
Ken Shirriff @righto.com Computer history. Reverse-engineering old chips. Restored Apollo Guidance Computer, Alto. Ex-Google, Sun, Msft. So-called boffin.
Connor G G Bamford @connorggbamford.bsky.social Scientist and educator interested in viruses, immunity and evolution. Currently group leader and lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. Member of MicroSoc Virus Division, and Young Academy Ireland.
Rob Moran @prob91.bsky.social co-founder of ContamClub • plasmid fan • purveyor of artisanal bioinformatics
J. Ole Klarhof @joleklarhof.bsky.social Molecular Virology | Biochemistry | cryoEM
PhD student in Leo James lab @LMB
Maria Sokolova @arimiora.bsky.social Lise Meitner Research Group Leader
@mpibiochem.bsky.social
Bacteriophages
Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social Currently - Luke Haines and Peter Buck. Black Box Recorder. Minus 5 (when called into service) Swell Maps (occasionally)
Formerley - The Auteurs,
Writes a bit, paints a bit. Strums guitar.
@hsiehyp.bsky.social @hsiehyp.bsky.social 
Anshika Gupta @anshika22.bsky.social 
Helen Hipperson @hhippers.bsky.social Research Fellow in Genomics at University of Sheffield
Ashley Alexander @peachypotato.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher
University of Zurich
Kümmerli Lab
Microbiology, ecology, and evolution
Bernadeta Dadonaite @bdadonaite.bsky.social Associate Researcher @ Fred Hutch.
Bhaskar Kumawat @kumawatb.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Evolution/Complex Systems, University of Michigan | kumawatb.com
Canan Karakoç @ckarakoc.bsky.social Research scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology. Eco-evo | Host-pathogen interactions | Antimicrobial resistance | Survival | Coexistence | Cystic fibrosis. Loves microbes and math. Self-taught illustrator. Frog enthusiast. Punk.
www.ckarakoc.com
Clare Abreu @clabreu.bsky.social Assistant professor of biology @ NYU. Studying microbial ecology and evolution, changing environments, mathematical modeling. abreulab.org
David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social Evolutionary and Mathematical Biology, sequence structure and function, genomes evolve, statistical theory and knowledge, empirical-theoretical interface, communication of evolutionary genetics, collaboratives, the mind-body problem, humanism
Haim Ashkenazy @haimashkenazy.bsky.social Postdoc in WeigelWorld @PlantEvolution, @MPI_bio. Evolution of Plant-Microbe-Microbe interactions, molecular evolution, and comparative genomics
Sungbin Lim @sungbin.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at MPI for Evolutionary Biology
Microbiologist, Experimentalist
Interested in Microbiology, Evolution, Open Science practice, History & Philosophy of Science🧑🔬🔍- S Sylvie Estrela @sylvieestrela.bsky.social Ecology and evolution of microbial communities, mutualism, and symbiosis.
James Riddell V @jamesriddellv.bsky.social Microbiology Ph.D. candidate at Ohio State University studying virus-host dynamics in soils.
Jennifer Pentz @jtpentz.bsky.social Postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory 
Jiayue Yang @stjarnaa.bsky.social Grad student of Whitaker Lab at UIUC studying CRISPR ecology and evolution in archaea metapopulations ♨️
Jónína Sæunn Guðmundsdóttir @jsaeunn.bsky.social Postdoc in the field of #microbiology investigating #antibioticresistance at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway 👩🏼🔬🧫 She/her
Julie Pourtois, PhD @juliepourtois.bsky.social Postdoc in Biology at UMD, College Park
Kai Trepka @kaitrepka.bsky.social MD/PhD student at UCSF studying the gut microbiome and colorectal cancer treatment
Kasie Raymann @kasieraymann.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. North Carolina State University. Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Honey bee microbiome. Experimental evolution. - A Katherine Ennis @agroecologista.bsky.social UC Berkeley Postdoc interested in the ecological and evolutionary impacts of bacteria-phage interactions.
Kendal Tinney @kendalt.bsky.social Microbiologist and fan of phages 🦠🧬 🧫
PhD candidate in the Barber lab at UOregon.
(She/They)
Laura Suttenfield @lcatherines.bsky.social postdoc with @baym.lol at Harvard Medical School | UIUC, UMass Amherst alum
Louis-Marie Bobay @lbobay.bsky.social Associate Professor. NC State. Microbial Genomics, Evolution, Bioinformatics.
Lukas Hafner @lukashafner.bsky.social Biologist lost somewhere between the scales | Biology x ML
Postdoc@Kishony Lab, Technion
previously
@BIU, Institut Pasteur
@Learning Planet Institute
@Shore Lab, University of Geneva
@LostInTranscrip on Twitter
Michelle Hays @mjhays.bsky.social 2022 HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow: Excited for genetics, evolution, yeast, parasites, genetic conflict, inclusive science. she/her #firstgen
Nkrumah Grant @nkrumahgrant.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Paloma Rodera @palomarodera.bsky.social PhD Student in the Plasmid Biology and Evolution (PBE) and Evolution of Microbiomes and Mobile Genetic Elements (EMMGE) labs.
Bioinformatician and Biologist hybrid 💻🧬
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.
QinQin Yu @qinqinyu.bsky.social Pathogen evolution and transmission, science writing, and outreach. Researcher at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen.
https://qinqin-yu.github.io/
Richard Neher @neher.io 
Saheli Saha @sahelis.bsky.social 
Sayantan Datta @sayantandatta.bsky.social QBioS PhD student in the Ratcliff Lab, GeorgiaTech
IISER Pune '22 (BS-MS Biology)
Sneha Agrawal @agrawalsneha.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Hopkins Biology @broderickflylab.bsky.social
she/her | 🏳️🌈🧫🪰
स्नेहा (sneɪhaː)
Stephen Dolan @stephenkdolan.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Clemson University. Fascinated by all things microbiology.
https://www.thedolanlab.com/
Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social freewheeling renaissance man, music video maven, greedy boi, a good looking rebel who lives life by his own rules.
Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
Thomas House @tah-sci.com Professor of Mathematical Sciences, working mainly on epidemiology although partial to a bit of non-commutative algebra, social science and basic biology.
https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/thomas.house/about.html
@scsharples.bsky.social @scsharples.bsky.social 
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.
Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social Climate, water, birds, bluegrass mandolin. Member US National Academy of Sciences, MacArthur Fellow, Carl Sagan Prize, author of The Three Ages of Water (2023) and When the Well Runs Dry (2026). Email me at pgleick (at) gmail.
Tim Downing @downingtim.bsky.social @downingtim@genomic.social - also downingtim.bsky.social - Head of #Genomics at The #PirbrightInstitute (UK). He/him. All posts (etc) are in a personal capacity. I log in regularly, nearly every month. #Andacyclist #genomics #virus #pathogen #evolution
See-Yeun Ting 陳詩允 @seeyeunting.bsky.social PI in the Institute of Molecular Biology at Academia Sinica. Studying polymicrobial interaction in bacterial community. http://www.thetinglab.com
Marie Grandjean @mmgrandjean.bsky.social Postdoc @ulbruxelles.bsky.social in Jurenas lab, Assistant editor @bio-protocol.bsky.social. All about Secretion Systems, Biofilms and Redox Biology.
Lauren Cowley @laurencowley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics at Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
Beatriz Beamud @beatrizbeamud.bsky.social 🧪 Bacteria & Mobile Genetic Elements 💻 Synthetic Biology Group @institutpasteur 👩🔬 PhD @GVAfisabio @i2sysbio
Robin May @robinmay9.bsky.social Professor at University of Birmingham, UK and Gresham College. Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Food Standards Agency. Views very much my own (and occasionally someone else's too).
ESEB 2025 Congress @eseb2025.bsky.social Welcome to the ESEB 2025 Congress, set to take place in Barcelona. This congress marks another milestone for the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), which has been organising biennial conferences since 1987. Join us! We are waiting for you.