Travis Wheeler @wheelerlab.org Professor, University of Arizona
Algorithms, Machine Learning, Data Resources
Computational Genomics, Drug Discovery, etc.
wheelerlab.org
Wei Shen 沈 伟 @shenwei356.bsky.social Associate professor of Bioinformatics at Chongqing Medical University, China. Lab: https://mbio.info
Gustavo Rodrigues @tech-gustavo.bsky.social Likes microbial genomics and evolution.
Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social New Assistant Professor of Biology at University of Maryland • Passionate about algae / protists + HGT + genomics + evolutionary biology + microscopy • vanettenlab.org #NewPI
Opinions are my own.
@hobbslabmicro.bsky.social @hobbslabmicro.bsky.social 
Dimitry Tegunov @dtegunov.bsky.social Mostly #cryoEM-related tweets. Group leader at a biotech company in the Bay Area. Views are my own.
https://github.com/warpem/warp
Nabil-Fareed Alikhan @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy Admin for @mstdn.science. #bioinformatician. Interested in #microbiology and #genomics.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mstdn.science/@happykhan, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social YouTuber, traveler, director of an NSF global center, Full professor at JCVI, EBRC Council Member, SynBYSS Chair, Moonshot Bio founder, EFB Executive Board Member, and editor of 10 journals, including the New Biotechnology Editor-in-Chief.
Samuel Sledzieski @samsl.io Research Fellow @flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org
Formerly @csail.mit.edu @msftresearch.bsky.social @uconn.bsky.social
Computational systems x structure biology | he/him | https://samsl.io | 👨🏼💻
Kenneth Loi @kenjmloi.bsky.social Berkeley Biophysics,
Doudna Lab
Claire Dudley @claire-dudley.bsky.social MCDB PhD Candidate at UMich
Vecchiarelli Lab 🦠🔬
Studying the regulation of subceullar organization in bacteria 🧬☀️🥪
Reinier Egas @raegas.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher | Biotechnologist | Anaerobic microbiology | Methanotrophs | aSRB | Microbial Physiology group @cuwelte.bsky.social
Satoshi Kawato 川戸智 @kawatosatoshi.bsky.social Evolutionary genomics of aquatic pathogens; Assoc. Prof. at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan
https://researchmap.jp/satoshi_kawato?lang=en
Peter DeWeirdt @pdeweirdt.bsky.social PhD student @mit studying anti-phage defense systems using machine learning
@miloj.bsky.social @miloj.bsky.social 
Avery Noonan @averynoonan.bsky.social 
Lucas Moriniere @lucasmoriniere.bsky.social Postdoc at UC Berkeley (Arkin lab) and LBNL (Mutalik lab). Former plant pathologist converted to the wonders of the phage world. Phage-host interactions | Phage receptor specificity | High-throughput genetics | Phage engineering | Predictive biology.
Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social 🧬 Scientist (bioinformatics / genomics), 🧑🏻💻 software developer, 🪴 community builder.
Product Manager for open source @seqera.io
Alisia Fadini @alisiafadini.bsky.social Researcher. Learning biomolecular function and dynamics beyond the single-structure frontier @Columbia University
Melanie Blokesch @mblokesch.bsky.social Professor of Life Sciences @EPFL_en. Passionate about science 🤩 Views are my own.
Hasindu Gamaarachchi @hasindu2008.bsky.social Lecturer at UNSW Sydney; Visiting Scientist at Garvan Institute of Medical Research -
Designing embedded systems for bioinformatics applications.
Luiz Pedro Carvalho, PhD @luizcarvalholab.bsky.social Professor of Chemistry @UFScripps
Interested in enzymology, bacterial metabolism, chem bio, mycobacteria, antibiotic discovery and antibiotic resistance. Former group leader at NIMR and The Crick.
Anton Goloborodko @golobor.bsky.social A bio-physicist turned phys-biologist,
building models and software in genome biology.
3D genome structure in mitosis | DNA repair | meiosis.
A group leader at @IMBA_Vienna.
Dad x2.
Pepe Flores @ppflrs.bsky.social Postdoc @ Plant-Microbe Interactions @MPIPZ.bsky.social
Evolution and Ecology of microbial communities.
Viktoriia Savchenko @viktoriia-sav.bsky.social Post-Doc in the Cluster of Excellence “Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health” | University of Vienna | 🇺🇦
https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktoriia-savchenko
Michael Galperin @mygalperin.bsky.social Lead Scientist at the Division of Intramural Research (formerly NCBI), NLM, NIH. Bacterial signaling, c-di-GMP, c-di-AMP, protein domains, COG database
Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social Mosquitoes, watches and whatever. Huck Chair of Disease Epidemiology and Biotechnology at Penn State. My opinions do not reflect those of my employer (they want nothing to do with them whatsoever)
rasgonlab.wordpress.com
Eva Nowack @evanowack.bsky.social Evolutionary cell biologist
Julia Wucherpfennig @jwucherpfennig.bsky.social Postdoc in Lehmann lab at Whitehead studying Drosophila-Wolbachia | PhD in Kingsley lab at Stanford on skeletal evolutionary genetics
Frances Pitsillides @francespi.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen🍃🪲🍄
Mercè Montoliu Nerín @mmontonerin.bsky.social Postdoc at the Tree of Life/Wellcome Sanger Institute🌳 Genomics of complex eukaryotes in symbiosis 🧬👩🏻💻 She/Her🌈
Carolyn Elya @zombiflied.bsky.social Zombiologist, Assistant Professor, lover of fungus, puns, and small dogs. Opinions just mine.
Nicole Gerardo @ngerardo.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist interested in species interactions, particularly symbioses. Symbiosis makes me happy
Patricia Sanches @ptasanches.bsky.social Disease ecology | Chemical Ecology | Microbial ecology | Plant-insect interactions 🌱🐞
Researcher and Lecturer in the Biocommunication Group at ETH Zurich, exploring how microbes shape plant disease transmission by insects.
Shih-Hsun Walter Hung @walterhung.bsky.social Predoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social | Host-Microbe Interactions 🌿 #Phytoplasma #Endophyte #Symbiosis #Chloroplast #Evolution 🪸🤿 🌊
www.walterhung.com
Marie Vasse @marievasse.bsky.social Research in Evolutionary biology | Community ecology and evolution | Philosophy of science
she/her
also @marievasse@ecoevo.social
Ben Jenkins @benkinsjenkins.bsky.social Molecular mechanisms of endosymbiosis | Herchel Smith fellow @camwallerlab @oxfordbiology | 🦠 Paramecium bursaria | 🪸 Aiptasia
Vasilis Kokkoris @vkokkoris.bsky.social Associate Professor @VU Amsterdam
Fungi, Ecology, Genetics, Microscopy, Symbiosis. #Scientist, #educator, #artist and #philosophy lover! 🌱🍄🔬👨🔬🎹🎵🏳️🌈
https://www.vasilis-kokkoris.com/
Jonathan Shik @jonathanshik.bsky.social Evolution, Ecology, Nutrition, Symbiosis, 🐜,🍄🟫, etc…▪️Associate Professor in Biology at University of Copenhagen & Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ▪️www.jonathanshik.com
MEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social A hub-based global conference on Microbial Ecology and Evolution.
August 3-5, 2026
Abstract submission and registration will be announced soon.
Line Roager @lineroager.bsky.social Marine microbial ecology | Phytoplankton interactions | Postdoc at Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (Iceland) | 🦠🧬 Like to work in both wet 🧪 and dry 💻 lab | (she/her)
@jesuxueml.bsky.social @jesuxueml.bsky.social 
Rita Rebollo @ritarebollo.bsky.social just Rita
Gerry Tonkin-Hill @gerrythill.bsky.social Group leader at Peter Mac & the Doherty Institute in Melbourne, Australia
microbial genomics, statistics, machine learning
Jacqueline Toussaint @jackietoussaint.bsky.social PhD student in the Lees group @ Cambridge Uni & EMBL-EBI | bioinformatics | pathogen genomics | Rust, Stan, python, R
Anna Zaidman-Rémy @annazaidmanremy.bsky.social Scientist
Takema Fukatsu @fkttkm.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, working on symbiosis between insects and microbes; Prime Senior Researcher, AIST; Professor, Univ. Tokyo/Univ. Tsukuba
Mohammed AlQuraishi @moalquraishi.bsky.social MLing biomolecules en route to structural systems biology. Asst Prof of Systems Biology @Columbia. Prev. @Harvard SysBio; @Stanford Genetics, Stats.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social PhD biologist, author, climate activist, adoptee rights activist. Senior Scientist and Writer in Residence, Science and Environmental Health Network, Rachel Carson scholar with Library of America. Reminder: Nobody’s coming.
Brent Pedersen @brent-p.bsky.social dad
creativity in: genomics, bioinformatics and solving problems
languages: rust, nim, python, go, c, bash, awk, js
James Ferguson @psy-fer.bsky.social Bioinformatician/Genomics Software Engineer @garvaninstitute.bsky.social
Views my own.
Mastodon @Psy_Fer_@genomic.social, https://genomic.social
Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social Science journalist covering all fields. Formerly an editor at New Scientist and Nature. 🧪🐸 🍄
New Scientist: https://tinyurl.com/2tvwfa2b
Live Science: https://tinyurl.com/4mbyh7a9
Sci Am: https://tinyurl.com/bdza74ta
Nature: https://tinyurl.com/yc265esp- I Ilnam Kang @ilnamkang.bsky.social https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2815-1735
Viroscope @viroscope.bsky.social Scientific Visualization (PhD) | Viroscope | Revealing the cinematic universe inside your cells | High-End Microscopy & Storytelling
Karim Majzoub @karimaj.bsky.social Group leader @igmm-montpel.bsky.social studying viruses - Amateur athlete and musician- Husband and father- Europtimist @biolum-montpellier.bsky.social
https://www.igmm.cnrs.fr/en/team/rna-viruses-and-host-factors/
Marleny García Lozano @marlenygarcial.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Lausanne 🇨🇭
https://engelbeelab.com/
PhD from Max Planck Institute for Biology
@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Nitzan Tal @nitzantal.bsky.social 
Josef Sivic @josef-sivic.bsky.social 
Tomáš Pluskal @pluskal-lab.org Group Leader at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB Prague @iocbprague.bsky.social). Plant biochemistry, metabolomics, genomics, bioML, etc. https://www.pluskal-lab.org
Hannes Stark @hannes-stark.bsky.social MIT PhD Student - ML for biomolecules - https://hannes-stark.com/
Rachel Seongeun Kim @eunbelivable.bsky.social 🧬Bioinformatician in Steinegger lab, SNU, Korea 🤍Interested in protein structure and software development 🤺Live double life as a fencer
Roman Bushuiev @roman-bushuiev.bsky.social 🌏 https://roman-bushuiev.github.io/
Anton Bushuiev @anton-bushuiev.bsky.social PhD student at CTU Prague & IOCB Prague, machine learning for molecule discovery https://anton-bushuiev.github.io
Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social Synthetic Biology with a Southern European flavour for a new partnership with the Living World https://vdl-lab.com/ http://seva-plasmids.com/
Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Group Leader at The Sainsbury Laboratory, studying plant-microbe interactions.
https://noborilab.org
Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social Biogeochemist, microbial ecologist, sea wolf, bog witch, granddaughter of a devil, vegan-ish ecocentrist whimsigoth anarchist punk. she/her 🖤❤️
Mal Bowen (he/him) @micromal.bsky.social Enjoying the little things in life and studying microbes everywhere |BS, PhD Marine Bio |
Tyler Barnum @tylerbarnumphd.bsky.social Problem-solver in microbiology. SF, CA, USA. Ex-UC Berkeley, ex-Trace Genomics, ex-Cultivarium. Website: tylerbarnum.wordpress.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tylerbarnum
Tatta Bio @tattabio.bsky.social Building genomic intelligence
Metagenomic datasets, genomic language models, SeqHub
Our research: https://tatta.bio
Analyze your sequences on https://seqhub.org
Andre Cornman @ancornman1.bsky.social Building ML models for genomics at tatta.bio
Checkout gaia.tatta.bio protein search!
Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Tuba Arooj @tubaarooj.bsky.social Research fellow | University of the Punjab
Guest Editor | JoVE
Review Editor | EHN
Exploring Environmental Microbiology
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5956-8352
Gerhard J. Herndl @gerhardherndl.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography at the University of Vienna
Zach Hensel @zachhensel.bsky.social single-molecule microbiology lab @ ITQB NOVA in Portugal
https://zach-hensel.github.io/
Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social Virus evolution | genomic epidemiology| virus origins | phylogenetics | BEAST | ARTIC Network
University of Edinburgh
http://beast.community
http://artic.network
Jeramia Ory @drlabratory.com Advocate, accomplice, & builder of community, one person at a time. First-gen professor stumbling through the hallowed halls. Bruce Banner without the other guy.
@katiekliermicrobe.bsky.social @katiekliermicrobe.bsky.social 
Dr. Michelle Hauer @michelle-hauer.bsky.social From deep sea phage-microbe-host symbiosis to coastal fisheries conservation | Population genetics, genomics & geospatial modeling | Postdoc at U Washington & NOAA NWFSC | PhD, URI-GSO
Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social Scientist + Teacher UvA/Amsterdam | Cells | Molecules | Microscopy | Fluorescent Proteins | Biosensors | Lifetime imaging | Open Science | dataViz | R | web apps
Homepage: https://joachimgoedhart.github.io/
DataViz Apps: https://huygens.science.uva.nl
ISCB News @iscb.bsky.social Empowering Computational Biology, Transforming Global Science!
The International Society for Computational Biology is a scholarly society for advancing understanding of living systems through computation, and communicating scientific advances worldwide.
Alita Burmeister @aburmeister.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW Milwaukee | Molecular Microbiology and Evolution Lab | Microbes, Mentorship, and More | she/hers 
Badreddine Douzi @badreddinedouzi.bsky.social INRAe Researcher Scientist @ Nancy
Having fun to use microbiology, structural biology and biochemistry to understand mechanisms underlying proteins and DNA transport across bacterial envelope.
Xianzhe Gong @xianzhegong.bsky.social 
Joe Grove @grovearmada.bsky.social Investigating viruses, using pipettes, #AI and coffee.
Learn more at the lab website: https://grovelab.github.io/
Check out our database of viral protein structure predictions: https://viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk/
Based at: @cvrinfo.bsky.social
Rob Barringer @robbarringer.bsky.social Fibrillar adhesins, microbial adherence and crystallography.
Francesco Costa @atsocf.bsky.social 
Recep Adiyaman @recep44.bsky.social Researcher, bionformatician, interested in protein structure prediction, proteomics and AI
@uniofRdg @intfold @instadeepai
Projects, writing & curated research ↓
https://recep2244.github.io/portfolio
Inès Pons @inespons.bsky.social 
Nikolay Tumanov @ntumanovxray.bsky.social A crystallographer at UNamur, SC and PXRD. Structures, cookies and 3D-printing. A crystallographer by day, a food supplements forensic expert by the night.
Marcel Bäcker @marcelbaecker.bsky.social Spatial structure and microbial communities
PhD student, Microverse Excellence Cluster Uni Jena
he/him
Evelyne Selberherr @evelyneselberherr.bsky.social Tenured Associate Professor of Microbiome Research I University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna I Microbiology I Food safety I Sustainabe food production
Martin Polz @polzlab.bsky.social Ecology and evolution of microbes.
Ana López-Moreno @alopezm.bsky.social Microbiologist | PhD @University of Granada | Postdoc @TUM
Gut microbiome · nutrient-driven assembly · microbial ecology
Piotr Lukasik @sympiotr.bsky.social Researching the diversity, evolution, and roles of insect-microbe interactions at Jagiellonian University, Poland. Nature lover. Traveler. Photographer.
Ben-Tal Lab @bentallab.bsky.social Computational structural biology 🔎🧬
Tel-Aviv University
Claudèle Lemay-St-Denis @claudele.bsky.social Postdoc @haifaresearch.bsky.social w/ Rachel Kolodny | Biochem PhD from @umontreal.ca 🇨🇦 | Protein evolution 🧬 | Climate activist 🌍, vegan foodie 🍉 and hiking enthusiast 🏞 | she/her
Jarno N. Alanko @jnalanko.bsky.social Postdoc in computer science and bioinformatics from Finland. Website: https://jnalanko.net. Various writings in English and Finnish: https://blog.jnalanko.net. Also on Mastodon: https://genomic.social/@jnalanko
Tom Hitch @tcahitch.bsky.social Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong focused on how we can control the human gut microbiota to improve human health. He/Him/They
James Fleming @jamesfvfleming.bsky.social Postdoc: University of Barcelona BdP Fellow (based in Japan). Inverts, Outreach, Palaeo and Phylo. Sometimes also tRPGs. he/him. En/De/日本語/Ga/No/Es OK (in decreasing proficiency)! Personal Account
Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social Optical imaging, interested in STEM topics.
First generation graduate from ETH Zürich
Associate Professor at UT
Southwestern Medical Center