Constantin Anoyatis @canopele.bsky.social Posdoctoral researcher, Bacterial Genome Plasticity, Institut Pasteur
Former peptidoglycan enthousiast in the Hugonnet Lab in Paris
From autolysins and β-lactams to replicon domestication🧫
Emma Banks @emmajbanks.bsky.social 1851 Royal Commission Research Fellow @JohnInnesCentre.bsky.social studying domesticated virus-like particles called gene transfer agents (GTAs).
Ilyas Alav @ilyasalav.bsky.social Interested in the physiological role of bacterial efflux pumps and host-pathogen interactions🏳️🌈 (he/him)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nhIW1SUAAAAJ&hl=en
Trieu Le @trieule.bsky.social PhD candidate at Bath
Bacterial genomics
ESCMID_ESGMAP @esgmap.bsky.social ESCMID Study Group for mobile elements and plasmids
Leah McPhillips @leahmcphillips.bsky.social Postdoc in the Wanford lab @ King’s College London🔬🧫 interested in Klebsiella, virulence, and all things gene regulation and plasmids
PhD in Tung Le’s lab @ the John Innes Centre
She/Her 🇮🇪
Alberto HCA @albertohca.bsky.social PhD interested in antibiotic resistance, MGE, ecology and evolution
Ludo Poiré @ludopoire.bsky.social PhD Student working on plasmid dynamics and defense systems in bacteria.
Team Horizontal Gene Transfer in pathogenic bacteria 🦠 (CIRI, Lyon 🇫🇷)
linktr.ee/ludopoire
Flora Gaudillière-Jami @fgaudilliere.bsky.social Biologist. Transposable elements and bacterial evolution. Soon-to-be postdoc in Eduardo Rocha’s team at Institut Pasteur.
Timofey Skvortsov @timskvortsov.bsky.social Lecturer in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at the School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast. #Phage, microbes, genomes, computers.
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.
jack! @jackobin.bsky.social 
@waleedmuhammad949.bsky.social @waleedmuhammad949.bsky.social 
Wendy Figueroa @wfigueroac3.bsky.social Postdoc @Cambridge University and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Pathogens evolution: Horizontal Gene Transfer🧬, Phages, Mutational hotspots, AMR, virulence 🇲🇽
Xena Dyball @xenadyball.bsky.social NRPDTP PhD student with Evelien Adriaenssens @ QIB 🦠 Previously at UKHSA & Warwick Uni 👩🔬
Daniel Zhen Ye Sin @danielsin909.bsky.social Phages! Microbiota! MGEs! All about the little critters living around and in us :)
PhD Student at the Penadés lab, Imperial College London
Daniel Cazares @danielcazares.bsky.social Research associate at The Department of Biology, University of Oxford. Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Obsessed with Phages and Plasmids
Open Research Exeter @openresearchexe.bsky.social The Open Research Team in the Library at University of Exeter @exeter.ac.uk Posting about #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenData #RDM
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/openresearch/
Thomas Ipoutcha @tomipou.bsky.social Postdoc at Imperial College, in the
@jrPenades lab. Passionate about Phage-bacteria, AMR stories.
Iris Irby @irisirby.bsky.social PhD Candidate in the Brown Lab at Georgia Tech | mobile genetic element enthusiast 🧬 | NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Jack Bravo @jpkbravo.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ ISTA
Using cryo-EM to understand how bacteria defend themselves
https://bravo-lab.org/
Salvador Almagro-Moreno @bioetry.bsky.social Emergence and evolution of bacterial pathogens
Complexity in biological systems
Dept. of Host-Microbe Interactions
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
NSF CAREER. BWF PATH
U. Nomi @uniofnomi.bsky.social Defending against parasites.
"U. Nomi vs. Parasites" is a #learning platform providing open lessons in parasitology, insights on my research, & other nifty science.
Check it out at https://uniofnomi.wordpress.com
Tominaga K. (tomiken) @pacyc184.bsky.social Microorganisms and Viruses in the ocean
https://sites.google.com/view/kentotominaga/
@shuaibmahmoud.bsky.social @shuaibmahmoud.bsky.social 
Tabea Elsener @tabeaelsener.bsky.social Postdoc in the Rocha Lab at Institut Pasteur. I love anything moving within and between bacterial genomes, reading old research papers and making microbiology experiments edible with sourdough baking =)
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.
Rafael Pinilla-Redondo (Rafa) @rafomics.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at Copenhagen University. Excited about phages, plasmids, and bacterial immunity!👨🔬🔬 https://pinillaredondolab.com/
Apostolos Liakopoulos (He/him) @apoliakopoulos.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Utrecht University
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
@lionmitchwardrobe.bsky.social @lionmitchwardrobe.bsky.social 
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
MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social Microbial sequencing made simple.
Whole Genome Sequencing + Metagenomics: http://microbesng.com
PlasmidSeq: http://plasmidsng.com 😊
@wangzhenyu95.bsky.social @wangzhenyu95.bsky.social Microbiome, microbial ecology, evolution and all stuff related to bacteria
Everyone's least favorite lab mate @kepatitis-c.bsky.social I much prefer the sharpest of criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses
- Johannes Kepler
“It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.”
-Andrew Jackson
Fernando Rossine @fernpizza.bsky.social Professionally playing with plasmids!
Postdoc-ing until someone here scouts me for a PI position ;)
Princeton EEB -> Harvard Medical School -> Soon ETH Zürich!
GW4 Alliance @gw4alliance.bsky.social An alliance of four of the most research-intensive and innovative universities in the UK: Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do: gw4.ac.uk
Sign up to our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/4tbuar5f
Martin Corney @martincorney.bsky.social Green politician and environmental activist.
Former candidate for SE Cornwall MP.
Former chair of St Ive Parish Council.
Drew Creek @drewcreek.bsky.social Husband and Father of 3, Mayor of Newquay, Cornwall Cllr for Newquay Trenance, Green Group leader, COO Community Pharmacy Cornwall, owner Pharmakey Personnel. My happy place is in the kitchen or out in the seas around Newquay.
Dr Emily May Stevenson @emilymaystevenson.bsky.social Marine microbiologist with expertise in plastic pollution and antimicrobial resistance. Co-founder of Beach Guardian; aiming to empower communities against plastic pollution.
Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social Molecular Biologist (aemonten.github.io) 丨Chief Editor @ CSH Protocols (cshprotocols.cshlp.org) 丨Head of the Integrity in Publishing Group at CSHL Press 丨Chair "Molecular Biosystems Conference" (molbiosystems.com) 丨(Oxford) Comma King 丨Central Dogma Police
Ashleigh Griffin @asgriffin.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist based in Oxford
Gerardo Fracasso @gfracasso.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist mainly interested in host-(ecto)parasite interactions, ecology and behaviour.
Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow (UKRI Funding Guarantee) working on HosTiLyme project...of birds, ticks and their microbiome!
Kevin Debatisse @kdebatisse.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher - Institut Pasteur - Team "Bacterial Genome Plasticity" - Mazel's Lab -Molecular microbiology - HGT - MGE - DNA recombination.
Miranda @mfn42.bsky.social PhD student working on avian influenza | Interested in all things viruses & antiviral immunity | she/her 🔬🧬🦠- A apreston243.bsky.social @apreston243.bsky.social Editor in Chief of Microbiology, the flagship journal of the Microbiology Society
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 💻🧬
Julie Le Bris @julielebris.bsky.social PhD student interested in microbial evolution and ecology🧬 @Institut Pasteur
#Klebsiella #MicroSky
Karina Ilchenko @karinailchenko.bsky.social 
Tomas Carrasco-Valenzuela @Tcvalenzuela.bsky.social @tcvalenzuela.bsky.social Transposon obsessed biologist #TEsky
PostDoc at Botany and plant pathology OSU
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Jean-Yves Bouet @jyb-tlse.bsky.social Microbiologist, Molecular genetics, DNA, Genome Dynamics
Research director CNRS
Group leader at CBI
Klebsiella Papers @klebpapers.bsky.social Repository of new Klebsiella spp. papers posted on Pubmed.
Code maintained by graceeshepard.bksy.social
Isobel Stanton @istanton.bsky.social Environmental Molecular Microbiologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology on #AMR in bacterial and fungal microbial communities
https://www.ceh.ac.uk/staff/isobel-stanton
GW4 BioMed MRC DTP @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social The GW4 BioMed MRC DTP brings together the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter to develop the next generation of biomedical researchers. Applications open: https://gw4biomed.ac.uk
Freya Allen @freyaallen.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Birmingham | Evolution and AMR
Rob Moran @prob91.bsky.social co-founder of ContamClub • plasmid fan • purveyor of artisanal bioinformatics
University of Exeter, Cornwall @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk 
Paula Ramiro-Martínez @paularamiro.bsky.social Predoctoral researcher at evodynamics lab in Madrid.
Bacterial and plasmid evolution 🫧🧬💻
Rafal Mostowy @rafalmostowy.bsky.social Group leader at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, cofounder of Polonium Foundation. Working on evolution of sex in bugs.
Elena López Rodríguez @elenalopez.bsky.social PhD student at Institut Pasteur, Synthetic Biology Unit.
@institutpasteur.bsky.social
Developing biotech tools inspired by natural genetic systems 🧬
Gretel Waugh @gretelwaugh.bsky.social Microbial generalist 🦠 | Keen freediver & birdwatcher | Reluctant #Rstats enthusiast | she/her
@maryamravari.bsky.social @maryamravari.bsky.social 
Moffitt Lab @moffittlab.bsky.social Academic research lab passionate about building the next generation of genomic microscopy methods to reveal unknown features of the interface between microbe and host |
@bostonchildrens.bsky.social & @harvardmed.bsky.social | moffittlab.github.io
Paul Fogg @pcmfogg.bsky.social Microbiology Lecturer at the University of York, studying all aspects of Phage Biology, Gene Transfer Agents, and Bacterial Evolution.
Charles Coluzzi @charlescoluzzi.bsky.social Junior professor in The Biometrics and Evolutionary Biology Laboratory - I’m still fascinated by mobile pieces of DNA
#Plasmids #AMR #Evolution
Sternberg Lab @sternberglab.bsky.social News from the Sternberg lab at Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Posts are from lab members and not Samuel Sternberg unless signed SHS. Posts represent personal views only.
Visit us at www.sternberglab.org
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor | history of migration and diaspora | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social Green MP for Brighton Pavilion since 2024. Elected to challenge Labour in power at all levels of Govt since 2014. She/her. Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party at PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
@anngelly.bsky.social @anngelly.bsky.social 
Lee Trewhela @leetrewhela.bsky.social Local Democracy Reporter Cornwall for a range of media partners, former arts editor and chief reporter. Harassed dad to three girls. Too obsessed by David Bowie
Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk 🗳️ Mapping UK Elections & Collating Polling Data
nowcast / posters / much more @ electionmaps.uk
support my work @ https://ko-fi.com/electionmapsuk
MGE Workshop @mgeworkshop.bsky.social A meeting dedicated to researchers exploring the world of Mobile Genetic Elements across all kingdoms of life.
Monday 16th - Tuesday 17th June 2025 - B100, University of Southampton
Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social #TeamPlasmid | IS26 Mischief & Mayhem Curator 🧬🧫 🦠
Powered by #AuDHD | Weaponised Zero Self-Regulation & Hyperfocus 💊🌌🧠
#Mother of | Overachiever, Maximum Chaos & Yapper💡🤡🗣️
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.
Fiona Walsh @fiwalsh.bsky.social Antimicrobial resistance and solutions across One Health, professor of microbiology, Maynooth University, Ireland, dog lover.
Jayne Kirkham MP @jaynekirkhammp.bsky.social It is an honour and a privilege to represent Truro & Falmouth in Parliament. There is so much to do, but I am determined to be your loud and persistent voice in Westminster.
Cornwall / Kernow 〓〓 @cornwalluk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Cornwall #Kernow 〓〓 - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
Perran Moon MP @perranmoonmp.bsky.social MP for Camborne, Redruth and Hayle
Chris Thomas @chrismthomas.bsky.social Professor at University of Birmingham. Passionate about plasmids: how they work; how to use them; how to displace them when they are a nuisance. Founded International Society for Plasmid Biology (ISPB) in 2004. Currently Treasurer of ISPB and FEMS
Samriddhi Gupta @samriddhigupta.bsky.social Microbial evolution 🦠 | MbyRes in Westra Lab at the University of Exeter | Trinity College Dublin graduate | 🇮🇳🇮🇪🇬🇧
@anna-k-richmond.bsky.social @anna-k-richmond.bsky.social 
Richard Goodman @richard-goodman.bsky.social | 📍Postdoctoral researcher at LSTM
| 🧬 Researching the evolution of antimicrobial resistance
| 🦠 Microbiology, Genomics, Bioinformatics
Rebecca Corrigan @corrigar.bsky.social Ad Astra Fellow at UCD, formerly Henry Dale and Lister Institute Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield
Sonja Lehtinen @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social Bacterial ecology, evolution and epidemiology | Mathematical and statistical modelling | Genomics | AMR. Assistant professor at the University of Lausanne. https://wp.unil.ch/evolutionaryepidemiology
The Thormann Lab @thethormannden.bsky.social Roaming at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Interested in bacteria, cell biology, motility, phages and the various wonders of life. 
Vikram Alva @vikramalva.bsky.social Departmental Group Leader - Protein Bioinformatics @ Max Planck Institute for Biology - Tübingen @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Protein evolution // MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit // prokaryotic cell-surface proteins // prokaryotic histones
Ryan M. Imrie (he/him) @ryanmimrie.bsky.social Virologist at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
Bede Constantinides @bede.im Research fellow at the University of Birmingham interested in infectious disease informatics. Also cycling, photography, active travel. https://bede.im
Filza Masood @filza-masood.bsky.social RA in Respiratory Immunology 🫁
MSc Microbial Evolution & Ecology 🦠
BA (Hons) Microbiology 🧫
Trinity College Dublin
Currently looking for PhD roles (2026 start)
Charlotte Cornbill @c-cornbill.bsky.social PhD student in the evolution of antimicrobial resistance
Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social Prof Lindsay Hall’s research group at University of Birmingham & Quadram Institute. Early life microbiota (we love Bifidobacterium!), and influence of diet, host and pathogens.
Wenlong Zhu @hiltior.bsky.social Postdoc in Westra’s Lab University of Exeter | CRISPR | Quorum Sensing | Immune System of Bacteria
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 🦠
Isobel Garratt @isobelmicro.bsky.social PhD student at Bath University funded by GW4 Biomed MRC DTP studying AMR in polymicrobial catheter associated UTIs 🦠👩🔬