Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social Group leader at the Human Technopole
Chad Hobson @cmhobson.bsky.social Opinions are my own. Aspiring biophysicist & microscopist | Senior Application Scientist at HHMI Janelia's AIC | MS/PhD UNC Physics
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social ASBMB drives discovery forward in academic, industry and governmental sectors, helping to generate new scientific knowledge today that fuels tomorrow’s biotechnological and medical breakthroughs.
www.asbmb.org | #ASBMB2027
Dr. Arnaldo Díaz @ajdiazphd.bsky.social Associate Dean | Assistant Professor | Scientist | #HigherEducation | #Academia | #Mentorship | #FirstGen | 🇵🇷 | Opinions are my own
Yuxin Lin @yl774.bsky.social 
Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social Optical imaging, interested in STEM topics.
First generation graduate from ETH Zürich
Associate Professor at UT
Southwestern Medical Center
SPIE @spie.org Welcome to the official account of SPIE, the international society for optics and #photonics. Over the past five years, we have invested over $26M in the international optics community! 💡
Maureen Akinyi @maureenakinyi.bsky.social RNA Biologist | Fascinated by Spliceosomes and Splicing mechanisms | ❤️ Dogs 🐕 and Nature | Leading Edge Fellow | Postdoc @ Baylor College of Medicine
Madeleine Oudin @madeleineoudin.bsky.social Tiampo Family Associate Professor at Tufts University, cancer and epilepsy researcher, fierce advocate for diversity and inclusion, mom of a daughter with the SCN8A epilepsy
Heidi Kletzien @hkletzien.bsky.social Assistant Prof | Genetics, Cell Biology, Development | University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Leading Edge
Brittany S. Morgan @morganlabatnd.bsky.social John V. O'Connor Assistant Prof. in Cancer Drug Discovery @NDScience | Postdoc in @AnnaMapp Lab @UMLifeSciences | Ph.D. @hargrovelab | STAR^2 Lab https://sites.google.com/view/morganlabatnd/
Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social Professor of Psychology @ University of Southern California. Studies brain, body, & behavior changes in new parents. My book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives, comes out June 9 on Flatiron Books/Macmillan.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social Scientist, mother, perpetual learner. Assistant Professor, Structural Biologist, Advocate, and Speaker. Views my own.
signal @starbic.01
www.starbirdlab.com
Mad City Labs (madcitylabs1) @madcitylabs.bsky.social Mad City Labs are manufacturers and designers of innovative piezo nanopositioning systems and scientific instrumentation for research and industry.
https://www.madcitylabs.com/
Capital Weather @capitalweather.com D.C.'s Trusted Weather Team
http://www.capitalweather.com | info@capitalweather.com
AIC at Janelia @aicjanelia.bsky.social Venture of HHMI to make pre-commercial microscopes available to a broad audience. Learn more at https://www.hhmi.org/aic
Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Science and Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at George Washington University. Opinions not those of AAAS. https://holdenthorp.substack.com/about #ActuallyAutistic
Dr. Krissy Lyon @krissylyon.bsky.social Neuroscientist & astrocyte enthusiast | Postdoc in the Allen lab @SalkInstitute.bsky.social | NINDS K99 |@lclark.bsky.social and Harvard PiN alum | she/her
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social assistant prof at University of Pennsylvania
studying metabolic flux- NCI R00 awardee- also i do bad jokes (she/her)
https://bartmanlabpenn.squarespace.com/
Supraja Varadarajan @suprajagv.bsky.social Developmental neurobiologist, Vision scientist, Axon lover. Asst. Professor at UTSW, she/her
https://varadarajanlab.org 
Heather Snell @heatherdsnell.bsky.social Neuro. Cerebellum. Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine, Allen Institute Next Gen Leader, Board Member of The Swaliga Foundation, Lead organizer/matriarch of People of Color Burning Man camp. My words. She/her
www.snelllab.org
lexy @lvdlab.org asst prof in the star of the north
single-molecule microscopy and genetic manipulation of meiotic recombination @ lvdlab.org
banner: diffusion limited aggregation
Nicki Perry-Hauser @nicoleperryhauser.bsky.social 📚 Lecturer (Research & Teaching) @UniGlasgow | 🧠 CUIDS Postdoc @Columbia 🎓 PhD in Pharmacology @Vanderbilt | 🔬 Adhesion GPCRs & Neuropsychiatric Disorders | 🌟 Leading Edge Fellow
Meike van der Heijden @meikeesther.bsky.social Thinking about work, life, and balance. Looking for answers in the cerebellum.
Assistant Professor @ Virginia Tech
www.vanderheijdenlab.com
Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social Assistant prof at UC Irvine. Ecology and evolution in microbial communities, and occasional writing.
https://kxuelab.com
Tina Termini @cterminiphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Fred Hutch | She/her/hers | Founder of organizo | Angsty hematologist & scientific socialite | I work on/am stress & blood🩸 🦴 🐁 ☢
Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social Asst. Prof @ UW-Madison. I study the cell biology of the neuroimmune system using zebrafish. I make pretty pictures. #FirstGen
Chelsey Spriggs @drsprggs.bsky.social Virologist. Assistant Prof. at UMich. DEI Advocate. Detroit Girly. #BlackInMicro
Joaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social LMCB Group Leader at UCL and Wellcome Career Development Fellow.
Cis-regulatory control of cell fate choice in development.
https://delaslab.com/
Leading Edge Fellow. PrePrint Editor at Development
Alice Accorsi @accorsi-alice.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UC Davis studying snail eyes
Allison Didychuk @didychuk.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Yale Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry | structural biology & virology of herpesviruses | didychuklab.org
Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social Asst Prof/PI @ The Ohainle Lab @ohainlelab.bsky.social
UC Berkeley MCB
www.theohainlelab.com
viruses and how cells restrict them
eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social she/her // nimh mosaic k99 fellow // computational neuroendocrinology @ princeton // center for applied trans studies sr fellow // leading edge fellow // transsexual queen
views & opinions are my own
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org cell signaling, synbio, publication anarchy, mentoring, teaching, curiosity, caring. ⚧️🏳️🌈🧙🏻♀️
simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social hormones \\ neurons \\ genes \\ pdoc @tollkuhn lab \\ hanna gray fellow @hhmi \\ sr fellow @appliedtrans \\ transsexual àndrògynè \\ queering the anthrocatastrophocene \\ alien behind sén \\ simonesun.com \\ () optional, e is not
Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social Scientist| Illustrator| Co-founder @jkxcomics.bsky.social| Absurdity at its finest| The Gardiner of @thegardinerlab.bsky.social | she/her
👩🏾🔬 www.jayegardiner.com
🎨 www.jkxcomics.com
🧪 www.gardinerlab.science
Stacey Kigar @staceykigar.bsky.social Research Associate, University of Cambridge | Leading Edge fellow | first-gen academic | molecular biologist studying effects of stress across the lifespan 🧠🩸🧬
Jessica Stark @jcstark.bsky.social Learning from glycobiology to understand and engineer immunity | Asst Prof @ MIT BE, MIT ChemE, and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research | jstarklab.com
Claudia Vásquez @claudiaraudia.bsky.social cell & tissue biology, & sometimes frisbee | she/her
assistant professor @ UW Biochemistry
Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social Assistant professor — Biochem @UW! Interested in E3 ligases and understanding the underlying causes of developmental malformations. Aspiring neuroscientist. Fascinated with morphogens, signaling, and patterning ❤️🦔 . Proud toddler mom.
www.thekonglab.org/
Kathryn Gunn @thegunnlab.bsky.social Biophysicist and Cell Biologist. Fascinated by structure and enzyme regulation. Assistant Prof at Stony Brook University
Laura Desban @lauradesban.bsky.social Postdoc in neurobiology at University of Oregon studying the role of versatile chemosensory cells in host-microbial interactions! Even better, I do this in zebrafish :)
Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social Insect neurobiologist who ❤️ flies, fungi, fiber, and fbooks. Campaniform nut. Assistant prof @ UBC Zoology
Jasmine Nirody @jasnir.bsky.social 
Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder | Systems neuroscientist | BRAIN Initiative K99 | Leading Edge Fellow | Hippocampal memory and reward learning | She/her. All opinions my own.
Meghna Gupta @meghnag27.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) | Structural Biology | Membrane proteins | Organelle structure and function | Fatty-acid metabolism | https://www.mguptalab.com | #NewPI
Tigist Tamir @phosphotig.bsky.social Out here wondering how cells cope with stress 🧐 tamirlab.org
● Metabolism, Cell signaling, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Systems bio, sci-comm
● Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics
● 🤳🏾My opinions
Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social Postdoc at Joslin Diabetes Center. Alum WashU, Colby College. Kenyan American. RNA and translation regulation, pancreatic islets, diabetes. MOSAIC NIDDK K99/R00 recipient 2024. #LeadingEdge Fellow #Keystone Fellow 👩🔬🧪
(g)kenney lab @kenneylab.bsky.social microbial metalloenzymes, a tragicomedy; or, another friday night in lab.
asst prof @ pitt chem • finding new microbial enzymes & natural products via bioinorganic chemistry, bacteriology, & bioinformatics • balskus & rosenzweig lab alum • kenneylab.org
Tegan Horan @teganhoran.bsky.social Postdoc at Cornell. Background in genetics | Reproductive & cell bio | cultural anthropology. Studying sex differences in the germline. Doing things the hard way. 🏳️⚧️🦊
Christina Fitzsimmons @fitzsimmonscm.bsky.social Asst. Prof of Biochem. & Mol. Bio. at Michigan State.
Previously at Harvard, NCI, UCSF, and Macalester | aging | cancer | chembio | metabolism | enzymology | RNA modifications | mass spec | STEMEd | runner | boardgamer | LE fellow | my views
Ewa Bomba-Warczak @ebomba.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania | studying long-lived mitochondrial proteins, organelle stability, mtDNA fidelity in neurons and oocytes
www.bombawarczaklab.com
Maeve McLaughlin @microbialmaeve.bsky.social Assistant Professor | UM-Flint | Trans femme 🏳️⚧️ | she/they | Neurodivergent | Bacterial and Phage TRANScription | DnD lover
Caitlin Kowalski @caitlinkowa.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Microbiology & Immunology at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Health.
Skin microbiome/mycobiome • views my own • she/her
http://caitlinkowalski.com
Rachel Shahan @rachelmshahan.bsky.social Plant developmental biologist
Assistant Professor, UCLA MCDB
2021 Leading Edge Fellow
bishara marzook @ghostpathogen.bsky.social Used to be funny, now i make parasites kiss.
Incoming PI at GIMM, working on Cryptosporidiosis: @epi-api-lab.bsky.social
(Postdoc at The Francis Crick Institute, UK; PhD at USyd, Australia)
Host-pathogen interactions, cytoskeleton, immunity, community.
Maiko Kitaoka 北岡舞子, PhD @maikokitaoka.bsky.social Cell biologist enamored with gametes and their chromosomes | HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow | Leading Edge Fellow | 🧬🐸🪰🔬 she/her
Maria Mikedis, Ph.D. @mariamikedis.bsky.social Assistant Professor CincyChildrens • Postdoc PageLab WhiteheadInst • PhD CMB UWMadison • Developmental biologist studying how sperm and eggs form
Del Mármol lab @delmarmollab.bsky.social We study the structural basis of sensory transduction, and bugs. Harvard Medical School and HHMI
Varsha Rajshekar @varshar.bsky.social 
Ashlan Reid @ashlanreid.bsky.social Biomedical Engineer turned Neuroscientist, interested in the integration of electrical and molecular signaling in neurodevelopment… and seizures
Maigen Bethea, PhD @maigenmichelle.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor @ KUMC. Upper ordinary aiming to be extraordinary. Failing my way to the top. “I don’t lose, I either win or I learn” ✝️🥼🧠🧬
Chinyere Iweka @chinyereiweka.bsky.social Assistant Professor
School of Medicine
Pharmacology department
Case Western Reserve University
@udochi.bsky.social @udochi.bsky.social 
Gertrude Arthur @gertrudearthur.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow @UMMC, Stec lab| Research on MASLD, kidney and heart disease|Leading Edge & LAUNCHED fellow
Prerna Malaney @prerna-malaney.bsky.social Assistant Professor-Dartmouth College.
RNA-binding proteins in health and disease.
https://www.malaneylab.org
Anna Vlasits @annaintegrated.bsky.social Retina neurobiologist. My lab opened at University of Illinois, Chicago in January 2024. vlasitslab.org Views my own.
Natasha Shylo @shylonatasha.bsky.social 
Elle Roberson @elleroberson.bsky.social 
Jenna Christensen @christensenlab.bsky.social PI of the Christensen Lab at Northwestern University, Molecular Biosciences Department. Studying intracellular transport diversity across fungi and other organisms - thechristensenlab.com
Katie Deets @deetsk.bsky.social Curious about the evolution of host-virus dynamics | 2023 HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow | LeadingEdge Fellow | postdoc in the Elde lab, University of Utah | wannabe wx nerd | CM1.5 | she/her
Hannah Ledvina Ph.D. @hannahledvina.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor of MCDB at the University of Michigan. Former JCCF and Leading Edge Postdoc Fellow in the Aaron Whiteley lab at CU Boulder. Predatory bacteria and phage enthusiast obsessed with host-pathogen interactions. She/her.- T Theresa Loveless @theresaloveless.bsky.social https://lovelesslab.blogs.rice.edu/
Rose Z. Hill, Ph.D. @rose-hill.bsky.social Interoception, Organ physiology, and Neuronal mechanisms of homeostasis (ION) Lab | Neuroscientist at OHSU | ionlaboratory.com | proud parent of cats | (she/they) 🏳️🌈🧠🧑🔬 views are my own
DLRamamurthy @dlramamurthy.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rx0-fg8AAAAJ&hl=en
Genoa Warner @genoa.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Environmental Science, NJIT | reproductive toxicologist | synthetic chemist | wearer of babies
gwarnerlab.com
Miranda Hunter @mrndhntr.bsky.social 
Laura Seeholzer @lauraseeholzer.bsky.social Assistant Professor - Stanford University - Department of Neurobiology - Julius and Ruta Lab Alum
Cristina Nuevo-Tapioles @cnuevotapioles.bsky.social Mitochondrial biology and cancer ••• Postdoctoral fellow at
NYU Langone Grossman School of Medicine. Emerald Foundation Inc. Fellow. Leading Edge Fellow 2024 |Philips lab|
Riss Kell, PhD @drkell.bsky.social Marine biogeochemist, MIT-WHOI JP PhD 🌊, Postdoctoral Scientist at GMGI studying sea urchins as cancer-resistant, long-lived animal models, and overall marine science enthusiast! They/them.
https://gmgi.org/about/team/research-team/riss-kellogg-ph-d/
Raquel Fueyo @fueyoraquel.bsky.social Group Leader at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics
https://www.molgen.mpg.de/fueyo-lab
Gene regulation | Transposons | Human embryo development
Ciça Canesso @cicacanesso.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @Einsteinmed
Passionate about Mucosal Immunology
Katie Hatstat @katiehatstat.bsky.social Postdoc in protein design | DeGrado Lab at UCSF | NIH K99/R00 | University of California President's Postdoc Fellow | Leading Edge Fellow
Anne Martin @eannemartin.bsky.social Delving into the overlap between electrical and chemical synaptogenesis using zebrafish. SciArt enthusiast. eannemartin.com. My opinions are mine and mine alone.
Cheyenne Tait @cheyennetait.bsky.social Assistant professor - Marshall University - Invertebrates - Neurobiology - Behavior - Evolution
Katherine Savell @katherinesavell.bsky.social Scientist. Addiction neuroscience, molecular biology, & bioinformatics | NIDA K99 Postdoc @ National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, Hope Lab | Leading Edge Fellow | PhD UAB, Day Lab. Personal account
🧠🧬🐀 linktr.ee/katherinesavell
Xiaotang Lu @xiaotanglu.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor @UIUC | BRAIN Initiative K99 Postdoc Fellow @Harvard | Develop multiplexed connectomic imaging technologies
The Maurer Lab @maurerlab.bsky.social Understanding biology to improve gene therapy. Opening Jan 2025! University of Michigan Department of Biophysics. https://maurerlab.org
Jeeyun Chung @jeeyunc.bsky.social Assistant professor at Harvard MCB. Interested in lipid storage mechanisms and neuronal lipid metabolism.
jeeyunchunglab.org
Arianna Baggiolini @ariannabaggiolini.bsky.social Stem cell and cancer biologist | Hofschneider Professor and Group Leader at the Institute of Oncology Research (IOR), Switzerland
www.baggiolinilab.org
Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social biologist by day • asst professor @ yalemed
drosophilist: repro, stress, metabolism
maker of music • isaiah 43:2 • she/her
Shira Weingarten-Gabbay @shiraweingarten.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School
Viruses | Immunology | Ribosomes | Systems Biology
#LoveVirology
https://www.shiraweingartengabbay.com/
Holly Merta, PhD @hollymerta.bsky.social Science educator; Sub-organellar organization
- former postdoc @ UTSW Cell Biology Henne lab @hennelab.bsky.social
- former PhD ‘21 Yale MCDB @Bahmanyarlab
- NIGMS F32, Leading Edge Fellow 🧑🔬🔬🧫💚
Mark Becker @mbecker0.bsky.social Live imaging SARS-CoV-2 spread in airway epithelium. Postdoc @ Northwestern University.
Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social Leading Edge is an initiative to improve the gender diversity of life sciences faculty
http://leadingedgesymposium.org/