Siobhán O'Brien @siderophile.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Trinity College Dublin. Microbial Ecology & Evolution. Eurovision fanatic. Mammy of two party animals. Probably awake. 🇮🇪
Jessica R. Glass, PhD @jessicaglass.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Using genomics to promote sustainable fisheries and communities.
Research Associate at SAIAB 🇿🇦
Wyandot Nation of Kansas
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www.theglasslab.org
Carnegie Mellon University @cmu.edu At CMU, the (Blue)sky's the limit. United by curiosity and driven by passion, we reach across disciplines, forge new ground and deploy our expertise to make real change that benefits humankind.
Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives. Former CDC Director and New York City health commissioner. Focused on partnering with communities around the world to save lives.
Duhita Sant @duhitasant.bsky.social Postdoc at @RutgersCABM | Ecology and evolution of microbial communities | https://qevomicrolab.org
Aditya Kamat @adityakamat.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at Rudner Lab, Harvard Medical School | PhD at Badrinarayanan Lab, NCBS Bangalore (TIFR)
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
Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social Professor at UArizona interested in genome rummaging, microbial evolution, and occasional tales about having backyard farm animals.
“I’m something of a scientist myself”
Baltrus(at)Arizona.edu
Alfonso Santos Lopez @asantoslopez.bsky.social Evolution of antibiotic resistance. Ramón y Cajal Fellow at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. https://amrevolution.es/
Nichole Ginnan 🦠 @botanichole.bsky.social 🌿Plant/Soil Microbiomes, Plant Pathology, & Global Change Biology | Assistant Project Scientist, UC Riverside | Adjunct Researcher, Univ. of Kansas
Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social Dad, Teacher, Artist, Gardener and Scientist.
Change is the only permanent thing in the world. This moment will pass. It has to.
Ps.
All I post is my personal opinion
Eli Mehlferber @emehlferber.bsky.social Postdoc in Sam Brown’s lab at GaTech. Broadly interested understanding why bacteria end up where they are, especially in the context of opportunistic pathogens. All done through the context of “big data” genomics and ML.
Dr Natasha Fisher-Pearson @natashafp.bsky.social Recent PhD grad studying the gut microbiome and unconventional T cells at the University of Oxford.
#microbiome #bioinformatics #metagenomics #immunology #archaea
Oxford Centre for Microbiome Studies @oxmicrobiome.bsky.social Driving microbiome insights. Original research and supporting collaborations.
https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/ocms
https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxmicrobiome
University of Oxford
Ashley Alexander @peachypotato.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher
University of Zurich
Kümmerli Lab
Microbiology, ecology, and evolution
ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @isme-microbes.bsky.social The International Society for Microbial Ecology is a non-profit association and owner of the ISME Journal and ISME Communications.
Next symposium #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand in August 2026. 
The Izquierdo Lab @izquierdolab.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology at Hofstra U. Microbial ecologist, plant microbe interactions, cellulose degradation. Geek dad, retired rock star. Opinions my own. 🇻🇪in🇺🇸
Petya Krasteva @krastevalab.bsky.social Structural biologist and microbiologist at the IECB, CNRS, Bordeaux. Loves her kiddos, homies, science and bacteria!
www.krasteva-lab.com
Abhishek Shrivastava @shrivastavalab.bsky.social Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Bacterial motility, T9SS, Microbiome
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
Rémi Fronzes @fronzeslab.bsky.social 🔬 CNRS Research Director, Bordeaux
Structural biologist & microbiologist
🏃♂️ Runner & 🚴 Cyclist (mostly Velotaf)
⛰️ Mountain & nature lover
🏛️ Formerly at UCL/Birkbeck & Institut Pasteur
🦠 Trying to figure out how bacteria fight, defend & adapt
Ombeline Rossier @ombelinerossier.bsky.social Microbiologist fascinated by host-microbe interactions. T5 phage aficionado. Bacteriophage hunter. Associate Professor at Paris-Saclay University
Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social
Feldman Lab@WashU @feldmanlab.bsky.social We love bacteria!! Especially Acinetobacter and Bacteroides. The lab is in Dept. of Molecular Microbioloy @WashU in St Louis
Dr. Kristi L. Frank @kristilynnfrank.bsky.social Microbiologist. Assoc. Prof. at Uniformed Services University. Marylander now. Minnesotan before. Montanan 1st and always. Views mine, not my employer's.
Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgia State University
Art by Arwa Abbas
@aryngittis.bsky.social @aryngittis.bsky.social 
Fangwei Si @sifangwei.bsky.social Studying physiology and biophysics of the cell via quantitative measurements @cmu.edu
https://sifangwei.github.io/
Jon Henninger @jhenninger.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Carnegie Mellon University | RNA-directed control of transcription and cell fate | Biomolecular condensates
https://labs.bio.cmu.edu/henninger/
Yttri Lab @yttrilab.bsky.social Interrogating the functional interactions of motor and decision circuits that lead to behavior
https://labs.bio.cmu.edu/yttri/
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham @barbsc.bsky.social Auditory neuroscientist, mom, saber fencer, oboe / English horn player. Views my own.
Carrie McDonough @carrieamcdphd.bsky.social Dogs' life. Rockstar. Environmental astronaut. Associate prof of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon (she/they; views my own).
@zombiephylotype.bsky.social @zombiephylotype.bsky.social 
Laura Mike @lauraamike.bsky.social Mike Lab @ Pitt-ID
www.themikelab.com
Studying how Kleb regulates capsule properties and causes infection
#klebclub | #newPI
Erin Nawrocki @erinnawrocki.bsky.social 🔬💩
Becca Satterwhite @satterwhite.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist 🧪🧫🧪 Postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, co-advised by Dr. Vaughn Cooper and Dr. Kathy Shair
Kaitlyn Barrack, PhD @kbarrack.bsky.social Microbiome Scientist at Outpost Bio
www.outpost.bio
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery @widofficial.bsky.social We are an interdisciplinary institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison exploring simplicity in complex systems at the intersection of digital and natural worlds.
Maryse Berkhout @maryseberkhout.bsky.social Microbes & glycans 🤩 | Gut Microbial Ecology | Wageningen University, NL | https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=PhNYBVUAAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=ao
Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social I'm a Professor who studies how parasites grow and cause disease. NY ➡️ קיבוץ כפר בלום ➡️ VT➡️UAB ➡️Stanford ➡️OUHSC ➡️UB➡️VT. Currently, Head of Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at Virginia Tech Vet School https://tinyurl.com/mrxm2uhm
Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, PhD, D(ABMM) @alexclinmicro.bsky.social 🔬 Assistant Prof, Pathology @Duke | Director, Clin Micro Lab
🧫 Former Clin Micro Fellow @Memorial Sloan Kettering
👩🏻🔬 Former Postdoc @broadinstitute.org
🎓 PhD @The Rockefeller University
Focus: Diagnostics, AMR, Structural Biology
Irina Mikheyeva-Bridges @micro-irina.bsky.social Manuscript Transfer Editor | ASM 🔬🦠🧫
Anish Pyne @animrprfct.bsky.social Microbiology Nerd | PhD @CMU_Bio @cmuscience.bsky.social| Former Research Assistant (RA) @iitr.bsky.social
David Abuín Eichinger @davideichinger.bsky.social I enjoy playing with family, reading science fiction and history, gardening, board games, and hiking. I'm a father, husband, Navy veteran, and graduate student studying Robotics at George Mason University.
Mastodon: https://scicomm.xyz/@David
Maria Hadjifrangiskou @bacterialtalk.bsky.social Bacteriologist, Runner, Foodie. Fascinated with biofilms, signal transduction and bacterial metabolism. Addicted to running shoes and marathoning.
Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social Rapid evolutionary dynamics in viruses, cancer and bacteria. Assistant professor at UW Genome Sciences and Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at HHMI. federlab.github.io
Jake McKinlay @jakemckinlay.bsky.social Professor, Biology, Indiana University
Bacterial physiology and cross-feeding interactions
Artist: https://bit.ly/3oy86jf
Sheltering under solar panels.
Posts are my own.
Sahar Melamed @saharmelamed.bsky.social Head of Microbiology track & Principal Investigator at the Hebrew University| regulatory small RNAs | RIL-seq | microbiologist | host-pathogen interactions | phages&therapy | antibiotic resistance
Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social Assistant Professor@ASU | Microbial behaviour and interactions at the Microscale
https://www.microbialeco.systems/
Chris van der Gast @chrisvandergast.bsky.social Professor of Microbiome Ecology. Gut & Lung Microbiomes in Cystic Fibrosis. #Firstgen
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/v/chris-van-der-gast/
Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social Physician-scientist, microbiologist, infectious diseases specialist, medical school professor. Opinions expressed are my own.
Wolfgang Lab at UNC-Chapel Hill @wolfganglab.bsky.social We study antibiotic treatment failure and evolution in chronic lung infections
Bat Bor @batbilegbor.bsky.social Faculty at ADA ForsythResearch | Bor Lab | Microbiologist | Saccharibacteria (TM7) | Episymbionts | Runner | Climber | Cyclist
Courtney Ellison @ckellison.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia studying bacterial cell biology 🔬🧫🏳️🌈
Margot Bacino @mbacino.bsky.social PhD candidate//BCMM trainee ambassador
Lynch lab UCSF
studying the human oral microbiome in the context of periodontal disease and health
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Holly Arnold @hollyarnold.bsky.social Microbiome Scientist | Assistant Professor
Pablo Laborda @pablolaborda.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at DTU | Ecology and evolution of antibiotic resistance and infection microbiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Alex Grossman @grossmanmicrobio.bsky.social Heavy Metal Microbiologist. Interested in host/microbe symbiosis. Postdoctoral researcher at the ADA Forsyth institute in the Lab of Dr. Batbileg Bor
Rasmus Marvig @marvig.bsky.social Computational biologist specialising in infectious disease genomics
Jason Tones @jtones.bsky.social 
Center for Biofilm Engineering @cbe-biofilm.bsky.social The CBE leads the world in biofilm research, bringing together interdisciplinary teams, solving real-world problems
https://biofilm.montana.edu
2025 10th ASM Conference on Biofilms @asmbiofilms2025.bsky.social 2025 10th ASM Conference on Biofilms
Nov. 9-13, 2025, Portland, Oregon
Pre-conference Early Career Scientist Symposium (Nov. 9)
https://asm.org/Events/ASM-Biofilms/Home
Dr Laura Sanchez @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social I am a scientist. #imaging #massspec #biofilms 🧫 #ovariancancer #microbial communities 🧀 Prof of Chemistry and Biochemistry @ucsantacruz.bsky.social she/her
George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social Elmer R. Pfefferkorn, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at the Geisel School of Medicine, EiC of the Journal of Bacteriology; Bacterial Biofilms, Surface Sensing, c-di-GMP Signaling, Polymicrobial Communities & Gut Microbiota in Cystic Fibrosis
Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social Paleontologist. Developmental Biologist. Anatomist. Polar wanderer. Telling people that they are fish since 2008.
Knut Drescher @knutdrescher.bsky.social I love science and discovering new things.
Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social Asst Prof of Micro and Immuno in Chicago | antimicrobial resistance💊| Acinetobacter baumannii-host interface🦠| views my own | she/her
Mark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist focused on microbe-animal communication. Professor UW-Madison. Messages are my personal views.- S @sandhyakasi.bsky.social @sandhyakasi.bsky.social
ASM @asm.org ASM is a global community shaping the future of the microbial sciences to tackle some of the world's most pressing challenges.
Microbes Make Our World.
Mara Kessler @marakessler.bsky.social Lab Manager and Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University
Rich Abdill @richabdill.com Bioinformatics, open data and meta-research at Sage Bionetworks
James Gurney @jamesgurney.bsky.social Assistant professor working on phage. Occasional writer/fact checker for kurzgesagt. I didn’t write dinotopia.
Anshika Gupta @anshika22.bsky.social 
Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD.
Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner
NL/USA/SFO.
#ImageForensics
@MicrobiomDigest on X.
Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
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Ahmed Moustafa @ahmedmicrobes.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UPenn & Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Director Center for Microbial Medicine (https://tinyurl.com/2xve6jfp) at CHOP
Director CHOP Microbiome Core (https://tinyurl.com/4bwdn2wk)
Microbial bioinformatics and ID genomics
Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social Flower Designer at Neoplants 🌺
Researcher at Binomica Labs
Degreeless Heathen
Petunia and Snapdragon Breeder
Open Lab Notebook: http://tinyurl.com/ATGCFFE
BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social Bioinformatics 🧬🖥️🧪
#DATABASE OUP Editor-in-Chief;
#PLOS Comp Biol Education Sect. Editor;
#OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenData;
friend of @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social,
@abinstitute.bsky.social, @mon-bug.bsky.social
- I am 🇨🇦
Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection @cmdi.bsky.social Our team of researchers at GeorgiaTech investigate mechanisms and consequences of microbial community dynamics both in the environment and during infection. https://sites.gatech.edu/cmdi/
Rapsinski Lab @raplab.bsky.social Study ventilator-associated infections and Pseudomonas aeruginosa evolution in the airway of ventilated patients.
We use whole genome sequencing, experimental evolution, clinical samples, and in vitro airway epithelial cell models.
Jeff Buller (he/him/his) @jeffbuller.bsky.social Retired classicist and academic dean, now active as an author, public speaker, globalist, progressive, and Dark Academia enthusiast.
Blog: https://jeffbuller.com/blog
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Laura K. Jennings @laurakjennings.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Montana State University
🔬Microbiology professor tackling drug-resistant bacteria💊 | Biofilm polysaccharides🦠| Bacterial epigenetics🧬| Vaccines💉 #Bacterialpathogenesis
Lab Website: laurakjennings.wixsite.com/jenningslab
@fillouxlab.bsky.social @fillouxlab.bsky.social 
PacBio @pacbio.bsky.social Our mission is to enable the promise of genomics to better human health by creating the world’s most advanced sequencing technologies. 
Hayley Nordstrom @hayleynordstrom.bsky.social Phage biologist and Scientific Illustrator. Staff Scientist at the J. Craig Venter Institute
[views my own]
Biofilm Journal @biofilmjournal.bsky.social Gold Open Access journal for the diverse field on Biofilm
Co-Editors-in-Chief: Tom Coenye, Darla Goeres, Birthe Veno Kjellerup and Ákos T. Kovács
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/biofilm
Laty Cahoon @laty.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Biological Sciences Department at Pitt
John Williams @jgecko77.bsky.social Virologist, Peds ID doc
All opinions are my own
IMPACTT Microbiome @impactt-microbiome.bsky.social Having IMPACTT: Advancing Microbiome Research Symposium ~
https://www.impactt-microbiome.ca/having-impactt-2026-symposium/#registration
Gemma May @gemmaemay.bsky.social Researcher in the McManus Lab at Carnegie Mellon University
RNA biology | genomics | translation | uORFs
Mohini Bhattacharya @mohinibhattacharya.bsky.social Senior postdoctoral fellow on academic track @CU Anschutz.(Previously postdoc @UChicago).
love all things biofilm (no air quotes)|MRSA pathogenesis|neutrophils|coagulation|collagen.
Middle Author Bioinformatics @midauthorbio.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood bioinformaticians :)
Learn more about the company here: midauthorbio.com
Check out our free bioinformatics web app: omix.midauthorbio.com
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Arkadiy Garber @ironark.bsky.social PhD, Microbiology
MS, Geological Sciences
BS, Neuroscience
Founder of MAB:
midauthorbio.com
GitHub:
https://github.com/Arkadiy-Garber
https://github.com/Middle-Author-Bioinformatics
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SGPloYgAAA
Krista Marie, PhD @kristamariephd.bsky.social Bacterial lipoprotein expert, cell envelope enthusiast, passionate mentor, crafty crafter (she/her) | Scientist at University of Michigan | PhD from Penn State | Buffalonian at heart
National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) @ukbiofilms.bsky.social Breakthrough science and technologies to control and exploit biofilms 🔬 #Biofilms #BiofilmAware #BiofilmWeek
Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social Senior Editor at @plosbiology.org; Scientist, Humanist, Optimist and Recovering Academic. All opinions my own.
Julia Willett @jlewillett.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Micro & Immuno at U Minnesota. Bacterial interactions/biofilms/uncharacterized genes/T7SS. I like wine, traveling, and the LA Kings. She/her.
Science News @scinews.bsky.social Science News from Academic Journals etc.
Daniel Read @danread.bsky.social Molecular Ecologist researching freshwater microbiology, AMR, eDNA and biodiversity. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH).
Xuhui Zheng @xuhuizheng.bsky.social LSRF postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington | Matthew Parsek Lab #pseudomonas #biofilm | previously PKU & NYU