Erin Purcell @erinpurcell.bsky.social Alarmone signaling and stress survival in C. difficile. Why are these bacteria so hard to kill? I sort of love them for it. Books, board games, and baking when I remember to protect the time. She/her. Views my own.
Contagion® @contagionlive.bsky.social Providing timely news to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases.
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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social Reporting research on human behavior and cognition. #PsychSciSky #Psychology #SciComm
Discover Magazine @discovermag.bsky.social The official Bluesky for Discover Magazine.
Science that matters, for readers that matter.
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Jessica Lane 👩🏼🔬 @jrlane2014.bsky.social PhD in microbiology from UAB 🐉
Current postdoctoral fellow at WashU 🐻 studying Klebsiella pneumoniae 🧫🫁
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-r-lane-23981a157?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org A leading life science journal that champions inclusive, high-impact research across all disciplines—from molecules to ecosystems. We offer innovative formats and collaborative editorial support to ensure your work achieves its full scientific impact.
Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social Senior Editor at @plosbiology.org; Scientist, Humanist, Optimist and Recovering Academic. All opinions my own.
Suzana Salcedo @suzanasalcedo.bsky.social Passionate about bacteria and host cell responses to infection. 🇵🇹&🇺🇸 and a bit 🇫🇷 Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Opinions my own.
Adam Pickrum @apickrum.bsky.social Postdoc at St. Jude with the Torres lab. Staphylococcal infection biology. Continuously pondering why bacteria win all the time.
Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. Microbes, evolution, and infectious disease.
Dad and husband.
barberlab.org
Eric Brown @ericbrownprof.bsky.social McMaster University Professor, preoccupied with microbes, using tools of chemical and systems biology to probe the complexity that underlies disease.
Ursula Hofer @hoferu.bsky.social Desk-chair virologist, EiC of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, previously at different Nature journals, MD PhD. She/her/expert. Opinions my own.
Matthew Warren @mattbwarren.bsky.social International news editor at Science Magazine, lapsed neuroscientist, Kiwi, dad
John Travis @john-travis.bsky.social Science journalist (Science's managing news editor), Michigander, Detroiter, beer and biking entusiast
Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social I’m an editor at WIRED and have previously written and edited for a number of places. Timothy_marchman@wired.com. Signal me at timmarchman.01. I periodically delete all my posts.
David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social Now: Lead Editor, Science's AI in Science Reporting Initiative (@science.org). Then: Freelance journalist, NPR Science Desk, river conservationist, College of the Atlantic (1986). Birder. Whitewater kayaker. Proud dad of 3 kids. Signal: DMalakoff.
Anna Konovalova @annakonovalova.bsky.social Associate Professor @ The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Interested in bacterial cell envelope, signal transduction, stress responses, antibiotic resistance and more
Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social Staff writer @wired.com covering health+biotech. Uses em dashes without AI.
Author page: https://www.wired.com/author/emily-mullin/
Email: emily_mullin@wired.com
Signal: emullin.06- G Gerry Wright @gdwantibiotics.bsky.social
Chris J. Maddison @cmaddis.bsky.social Asst. Prof. in Machine Learning at UofT. #LongCOVID patient.
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cmaddis/
Andrea Lius-Neoberdin @liuswrites.bsky.social Science journalist | Moonlighting essayist
https://muckrack.com/andrea-lius
https://www.linkedin.com/in/liusnotluis/
Daniel Drucker @danieljdrucker.bsky.social A clinician scientist at LTRI @sinaihealth studying Glucagon, GIP, GLP-1, GLP-2, diabetes, obesity, metabolism and the gut endocrine system
Katie Guzzetta @ktguzz.bsky.social All things #Microbiota-#Gut-#Brain Axis!👩🔬💩 Postdoc w/ Prof. Randall Platt @ETH Zurich's BSSE🇨🇭 Formerly Hamilton College🇺🇲 ➜ APC Microbiome🇮🇪 ➜ Harvard Med🇺🇲
Siddharth Jaggavarapu @sreesiddharth.bsky.social
Rosen Lab @rosenlabwashu.bsky.social Studying Klebsiella pneumoniae at WashU!
Emily Marino @emilymarino178.bsky.social Grad Student in the Rosen Lab @ WashU - she/her - Ohio University & Fulbright 🇩🇪 alum - *any views expressed are my own, follow ≠ support*
Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago. Study the pathogenesis of tuberculosis, and other mycobacterial infections. Opinions my own.
@tozturk90.bsky.social @tozturk90.bsky.social
Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social Microbiology, evolution, and bacteriophages. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
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
Ronan McCarthy @ronanmccarthy.bsky.social Professor at Brunel University of London. Into all things Antibiotic Resistance, Drug Discovery, Biofilms and Signalling
American Brain Foundation @abfbrain.bsky.social We bring researchers and donors together to cure brain disease. #CureOneCureMany
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Sebastien Crepin @crepinseb.bsky.social Researcher at National Research Council Canada
Microbial pathogenesis
Aligning Science Across Parkinson's @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org Global initiative to accelerate Parkinson's disease research. Programs include GP2 and CRN. Managed by the Coalition for Aligning Science and part of the CNS Quest.
parkinsonsroadmap.org
Jörn Coers @coerslab.bsky.social Scientist at Duke University. My team studies cell-autonomous immunity to intracellular pathogens and inflammation. Views are my own and do not represent those of my employer.
Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social Evolving better E. coli for 75,000 generations. Prof at MSU, but opinions my own. (Ok, I also speak for billions -- er, TRILLIONS -- of E. coli.)
Website for LTEE: the-ltee.org
Banner pic from NYC, shared by Darwin. (The microbiologist, not the other one.)
AMIC @brunel-amic.bsky.social The Antimicrobial Innovations Centre (AMIC) at Brunel University, London | Focused on driving, understanding, and developing solutions to the antimicrobial resistance crisis | https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Centres/antimicrobial-innovations-centre
Melanie Blokesch @mblokesch.bsky.social Professor of Life Sciences @EPFL_en. Passionate about science 🤩 Views are my own.
Leigh Knodler @leighknodler.bsky.social Australian first | Scientist second | Professor at The University of Vermont | FirstGen | Lover of germs, especially Salmonella and their type III secretion systems
Trends in Microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Posts by Shankar Iyer, editor of Trends in Microbiology.
Francis Alonzo @francisalonzo12.bsky.social Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. Interested in host-microbe interactions. 🔬👨🔬🦠🏳️🌈
Antimicrobial resistance #AMR @antimicrobial.bsky.social AMR Antimicrobial Resistance
Fernanda C. Petersen,
Professor, University of Oslo and
Ulf R. Dahle,
Specialist Director,
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com News, commentary and research coverage from the international monthly journal publishing the highest quality of work in all areas of neuroscience.
https://www.nature.com/neuro/
Dr. Dawn Bowdish @msmacrophage.bsky.social Professor of Medicine, McMaster University
Executive Director of the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health
Board of Directors Lung Health Foundation
#macrophages #aging #respiratoryinfections #vaccinations #immunity #inflammation #scicomm
Drew Hryckowian @a-hryckowian.bsky.social Gut microbiome, bacterial pathogens, bacteriophages.
Assistant Professor, Depts. Medicine and Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Views expressed = mine. hrycklab.medicine.wisc.edu
DermodyLab @dermodylab.bsky.social Ever-enthusiastic virologists at the University of Pittsburgh and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC!
Words/opinions those of individual lab members.
https://www.pediatrics.pitt.edu/divisions/infectious-diseases/labs-and-faculty-pages/dermody-lab
Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social Editor in Chief of the #NonProfit, #OpenAccess journal @plosbiology.org Former Chief Editor of Nature Microbiology.
#Virologist. #Feminist. #Spaniard in the UK. #Galician. #European always.
Views my own.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3666-5683
Corrie Detweiler @csdetweiler.bsky.social Microbiologist researching anti-infectives, Prof at University of Colorado, Editor in Chief of #MMBR (Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews), an American Society of Microbiology (ASM; @asm.org).
Alejandro Aballay, PhD @aaballay.bsky.social Dean of the MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School
https://gsbs.uth.edu/. Scientist studying organismal responses to infections. Views are my own.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social
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Christina Stallings @stallingslab.bsky.social Laboratory interested in mycobacterial pathogenesis and lung inflammation
Ammar Zafar @azmicro.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist interested in host-pathogen interactions. Associate Professor at Emory University School of Medicine. Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology
Molly @immunobladder.bsky.social Co-affiliated with Institut Cochin and Institut Pasteur, I love all things bladder! And cats - I love cats
Mary O'Riordan @drbadbug.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Michigan | views my own
Borden Lacy @bordenlacy.bsky.social Scientist interested in bacterial toxins, Clostridioides difficile, and sustainable energy practices.
Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com Exploring the wonders of microbiology with reviews and commentaries from across the field. Brought to you by your curious editors! 🔬✨
https://nature.com/nrmicro/
Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social Professional non-stupid person, massive nerd, and Editor-in-Chief of a very good microbial journal.
(Illustration by David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-028)
Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social Assoc. Professor, Purdue U. (via India - U. Maryland, College Park - UCLA - UCSD/HHMI). Having fun studying Fic proteins, from bacteria to humans. #AMPylation
#HypothesisFund
https://www.bio.purdue.edu/lab/mattoo/
Jonathan Kagan @jkagan1.bsky.social Scientist at Boston Children's Hospital, Professor at Harvard Medical School, Husband, Father
Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social Our lab at UT Southwestern studies viral pathogenesis. And sometimes wine.
Cris Moreira @moreiralab.bsky.social Exploring life via Microbiology, love biking, enjoying family, friends, rock n’roll and soccer🧪🧫@LSU (Posts and opinions are my own)
Antonio Pagán @antoniopagan.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Stanford studying tuberculosis pathogenesis & immunobiology.🇵🇷
https://med.stanford.edu/paganlab.html/
Christina (Chris) Tobin Kahrstrom @microchris.bsky.social Senior editor at Nature, handling the micro stuff, including bacterial and fungal pathogens, host-associated microbiomes, host-microbiota interactions, phage-bacteria interactions, antimicrobial discovery and AMR, among many others...
All views my own
Bill Goldman @wgoldman1.bsky.social Professor Emeritus and Former Chair (2008-2018) of Microbiology & Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist focused on microbe-animal communication. Professor UW-Madison. Messages are my personal views.
Yonatan Grad @yhgrad.bsky.social Prof @ Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. Antimicrobial resistance, STIs, N. gonorrhoeae, pandemic preparedness/response, pathogen genomics, mathematical modeling, ID epi
Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org Evangelist for the study of evolution in action by everyone.
Pitt Prof | ASM President|EvolvingSTEM | biofilms | EvMed | genomics entrepreneur (@SeqCoast.bsky.social, @midauthorbio.bsky.social)| exercise addict ~ swim bike run
Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist (Multicellularity & social evolution). Prof. at Georgia Tech & Director of the QBioS PhD program.
https://ratclifflab.biosci.gatech.edu/
Jaap de Roode @jaapderoode.bsky.social Biology professor; Emory University;
monarch butterflies; infectious diseases; animal self-medication; host of Virulent Vortex podcast
Bill Hanage @billhanage.bsky.social Refugee from Twix. Arsenal fan and Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Opinions my own.
Tim Read @timothyread.bsky.social Professor, Emory University Schools of Medicine, Atlanta.
Microbiology, genomics, genetics, bioinformatics.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XF5C7cgAAAAJ&hl=en
Cadwell Lab @cadwelllab.bsky.social We investigate the interface between the immune system and diverse infectious agents ranging from friendly gut microbes and viruses to disease-causing parasites
Our Lab: https://www.med.upenn.edu/cadwell-lab/
Emily White @emily-white.bsky.social Microbiologist 🦠 Chief editor at Nature Microbiology📚
Views my own
Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue
contributing correspondent at @science.org
co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social
2024 KSJ fellow at MIT
Signal: kakape.93
M. Stephen Trent @mstrent.bsky.social Microbiologist and Star Wars fanatic
Susan Jones @jonesysoo.bsky.social Editorial Director, Nature portfolio. Ex-Chief editor at Nature Microbiology & Nature Reviews Microbiology. Ex-Senior editor at Nature Biotechnology & PLOS Medicine. Microbiology& technology are my happy place. Here for the science, views my own.
Rita Tamayo @ritatamayo.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology, C. difficile pathogenesis, Latina in Science, parent of 2, she/her. Views are my own.
David Tobin @tobinlab.bsky.social Scientist at Duke studying tuberculosis, host susceptibility to infection, and mycobacterial pathogenesis. Views are my own and do not represent those of my employer.
Matt Frieman @mattfrieman.bsky.social Alicia and Yaya Professor of Viral Pathogen Research, Center for Pathogen Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine. #virology #coronavirus #vaccines #Influenza Opinions are my own. FriemanLab.com
Trevor Lithgow @trevor-lithgow.bsky.social Keen on discoveries in bacterial cell biology and bacteriophages, working to impact AMR. Fan of the ocean. Opinions my own.
François Mayer @francoismayer.bsky.social Senior Editor at Nature Microbiology 💻📄 | handling mycology, parasitology, AMR and phage therapy | https://www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/
Christina Faherty @christinafaher1.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist 🧫 🦠 🧬 focusing on #Shigella, #enteric #pathogens & #phage. Using host signals & #organoids to study #pathogenesis. Assist Prof at USUHS. Views my own. https://medschool.usuhs.edu/profile/christina-faherty-phd
Sid Venkatesh @flash-point.bsky.social Assistant Professor at ISB and UW Microbiology in Seattle, WA | Lover of collaboration, generosity and trust in science | Opinions are my own | https://venkatesh.isbscience.org/
Shai Bel (The Mucus Man) @mucusman.bsky.social The Bel Lab, boldly going where no one else bothers to. Associate professor @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social. Opinions are my microbiota's.
Bing Zhai @bingzhai4.bsky.social Principal Investigator at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS. Fungal infections, Human mycobiome, Fungal-bacterial interactions, Antifungal resistance.
Joseph Sun Lab @josephsunlab.bsky.social Professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College. My lab is interested in immune responses against cancer and infection.
https://www.mskcc.org/research/ski/labs/joseph-sun
Mariana Byndloss @maribyndloss.bsky.social 🇧🇷 🇺🇸 DVM/PhD | Host-microbiota metabolic interactions | Associate Professor | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | Mom | Dog lover | Views are my own
Michael Glickman @michaelglickman.bsky.social Physician Scientist interested in all things mycobacterial: pathogen, model system, and cancer therapy. Immunology program/ID MSK. Opinions are mine and do not represent those of employer, MSK.
Pubs: https://shorturl.at/GaVRW
Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership (GARDP) @gardp.bsky.social Putting public health needs at the centre of antibiotic drug development to address the crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
https://gardp.org/this-is-big/
Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social Research, education & innovation on #Antibiotics & #AntibioticResistance with a multidisciplinary approach at Uppsala University. Producing #theAMRstudio!
www.uac.uu.se
Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social Journalist. Contributing Ed, Scientific American. Senior Fellow, Emory Univ Center for the Study of Human Health. Books: BIG CHICKEN, SUPERBUG, BEATING BACK THE DEVIL. Stories: https://authory.com/marynmckenna. Location: points on the 44th parallel.
Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com Nature Microbiology publishes the latest research and commentary in all areas of microbiology.
https://www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/
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.
Alison Criss @alisoncrissuva.bsky.social Professor and Vice Chair of Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology, University of Virginia. Chair, Mechanism Discovery Unit, American Society for Microbiology. Fascinated by neutrophils & Neisseria.
Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social Asst Prof of Micro and Immuno in Chicago | antimicrobial resistance💊| Acinetobacter baumannii-host interface🦠| views my own | she/her
Jason Yang @jasonyanglab.org Assistant Professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School | Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology, Machine Learning, Antibiotic Resistance, Tuberculosis, Heart Failure, Immunoengineering
Sabine Ehrt @saehrt.bsky.social Scientist interested in mycobacteria, tuberculosis, NTMs, antimicrobial resistance. Prof. & Chair, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College
https://www.ehrtschnappingerlabs.org/
Victor Band @victorband.bsky.social Immunologist/Microbiologist at NIH in Belkaid Lab
💊 Antibiotics 🦠 Microbiome
🔃 Host-Pathogen Interaction