Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social Moving to GW Fall 2026!
Genetic Novelty, PopGen, Genomics.
Editor at JEB and MBE.
Conferences 2026: SMBE
QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social QED Science is the only AI built for research, helping scientists evaluate which claims hold up across papers, grants, and daily work, without ever training on their data. Powered by QED’s validity engine for trustworthy scientific analysis.
Ala Szkolnik @alicjaszkolnik.bsky.social Molecular Biology PhD student in the Tsai Lab @IMIBirmingham.
Working with fungal pathogens 🍄
(she/her)
Tiffany Zarrella @tiffzarrella.bsky.social assistant professor at georgetown | polymicrobial interactions | bacterial physiology | science educator | views my own
www.zarrellalab.org
Shaun Brinsmade (he/him) @shaunbrinsmade.bsky.social Microbiologist living the dream in Washington, DC. All views my own. 🏳️🌈
Comparative genomics group IRB-BSC Barcelona (PI: Toni Gabaldón) @gabaldonlab.bsky.social Comparative genomics group at IRB and BSC (Barcelona, Spain)
https://cgenomics.org/ 
Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social 
Luzia Gyr @luziagyr.bsky.social Discovering new antiinfectives using new automation platform JenXplor at @Leibniz-hki.de Germany
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.
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social Epidemiologist/mathematician. Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Author of The Rules of Contagion and The Perfect Bet. Views own.
New book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty available now: proof.kucharski.io
Bloom lab @jbloomlab.bsky.social Lab studying molecular evolution of proteins and viruses. Affiliated with Fred Hutch & HHMI.
Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
https://jbloomlab.org/
Sarah Zhang @sarahzhang.bsky.social eukaryote, also a staff writer at the atlantic
Prof. Andy Borman @andy-borman.bsky.social Hon. Professor of Medical Mycology, MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Exeter and Consultant Medical Mycologist, UKHSA Mycology Reference Laboratory, Bristol, UK
All opinions my own
No DMs please
Jasmine Ono @jtono.bsky.social Yeast match-maker. BBSRC Discovery Fellow and Assistant Prof at the Uni of Nottingham.
Slavica Janevska @slavi-jan.bsky.social Junior Group Leader @leibniz-hki.de. Previous @dfg.de @uva.nl Research Fellow, PhD @uni-muenster.de. Fungal epigenetics, virulence factors and natural products.
https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/epi-genetic-regulation-of-fungal-virulence.html
Gilles FISCHER @gillesfischer.bsky.social Evolution, Genomics, Yeast
Isabelle Fudal @ifudal.bsky.social Plant pathologist @inrae-france.bsky.social. Interested in molecular plant–fungi interactions, effectors, epigenetics, and functional genomics. Views are my own.
@audesl.bsky.social @audesl.bsky.social 
@flanternier.bsky.social @flanternier.bsky.social 
Sarah Dellière @sarah-delliere.bsky.social 🇫🇷 MD PhD Associate Prof Mycology Parasitology @upcite.bsky.social @hopitalsaintlouis.bsky.social
Researcher @pasteur.fr on #aspergillosis 🔬🍄
Active @escmid.bsky.social @youngECMM.bsky.social 🌍
MycologyPasteur @mycology-pasteur.bsky.social The Mycology Department @pasteur.fr studies yeasts and filamentous fungi responsible for fungal infections in humans. Multidisciplinary approaches are used to explore the biology of fungal pathogens and fungal pathogenesis. Follow our Latest Updates !
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social Professor, Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. Microbes, evolution, and infectious disease.
Dad and husband.
barberlab.org
Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social Fungal molecular geneticist interested in drivers of genetic instability, mutagenesis, and evolution of drug resistance. Assistant member @ www.hmh-cdi.org.
Yes, that's my dog 😍
Felipe H Santiago-Tirado @felipehst.bsky.social Happy scientist at the University of Notre Dame. Be happy and enjoy life! This is my personal account and nothing here represents my lab's or employer's views...
Lab website: https://fungilab.nd.edu/
Carol Munro @chitinette.bsky.social Aberdeen Fungal Group & Researcher Lead, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen 🏴
Co-founder & CSO Brigid Bio
Uehling lab @uehlinglab.bsky.social We are a mycological research lab at Oregon State University studying evolution of fungi and fungal symbioses. more at Uehlinglab.com Go Beavs
Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social Fascinated by fungal growth & asymmetries. Institute of Biology Valrose, CNRS-Inserm-Université Côté d’Azur, Nice. Microscopy addict, all things cell biological
Alexander Lorenz @lorenzlab.bsky.social Geneticist, Chromosome Biologist, wanna-be Genomicist into Meiosis, Genome Diversity, Schizosaccharomycs pombe, Candida auris. Treasurer of @gensocuk.bsky.social. University of Aberdeen @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social (Scotland, UK); posts are my own views
Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social Padre, curieux, scientist; sourdough engineer; evolutionary cell and systems biology; some attempts at synthetic biology and biomedical research;
Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social Associate Professor, MIT
Still thinking about the 10^9 mutations generated in your microbiome today.
Website: http://lieberman.science
Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social Microbiologist working on Quorum Sensing, microbiota and microbe-host interactions. Working at Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine - GIMM, Oeiras, Portugal
Victor J. Torres @torreslab.bsky.social Scientist fascinated by infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions and bacterial infections. Views my own 🇵🇷 #CienciaBoricua #MacFellow #MRSA
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.)
Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social Associate Professor Tufts University
Ecology/evolution of microbes in food systems. Constant gardener. 
Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social Nematode antagonist
Tera Levin @teralevin.bsky.social Assistant professor of Biological Sciences at Pitt, studying evolution, genes, and microbes. Same as @tera_levin in the other place. #NewPI She/her
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/carlzimmer/
Web: http://carlzimmer.com
[This account includes a tweet archive]
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
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
Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social Assoc Prof @CSUSM | 🦠⇄🦠 MGEs & coastal metagenomes | #BlueSoup 🥣🧬 🧫 | R1→Biotech→PUI | Protective mama bear of students | She/Her
Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social Dedicated to drug discovery, enthralled by science. 5 kids. She. SAB Recursion. Founder SyzOnc. Lab at Broad Institute. Opinions my own.
Charles Brenner, PhD @charlesmbrenner.bsky.social NAD metabolism
truth in science
Swathi @swath1.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬Scientist | 🦠Microbes | ⚡️Metabolism | 🧪Chemistry | 🐌Patterns | 🌎 Earth
Postdoc @ MIT - Using electrochemistry and genomics to measure and manipulate microbe/microbiome metabolism.
https://penumutchuscience.vercel.app/
Seána Duggan @seanaduggan.bsky.social Researcher investigating #Candida and #Staphylococcus co-infections @mrccmm.bsky.social, Deputy Editor-in-Chief #AccessMicrobiology, Dr. rer. nat, 🇮🇪🇩🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧(she/her)
Jane U @jusher.bsky.social Scientist, Irish living in England, music and gig lover, rookie allotment owner, own views #TeamHB7, BBSRC Discovery Fellow
Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social Senior Permanent Scientist at the Spanish Mycology Reference Lab.
Interested in learning and sharing knowledge about science, research and academic life.
Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social Scripps Research Professor. HHMI Investigator. Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine 2021. Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
Josh Nosanchuk @josh-nosanchuk.bsky.social Physician-scientist, educator, ID doc, medical mycologist; my comments are entirely my own
Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist at Stanford. Rapid Evolution, Adaptation, and Genomics. Open Science advocate. 
Peter Cook @drpetercook.bsky.social Enthusiastically attempting to understand why fungi cause allergy. Still trying to dabble with running…
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/35000-peter-cook
Gavin Sherlock @gsherloc.bsky.social Geneticist whose lab does experimental evolution, using yeast as a model. Because being a footballer was never going to work out, due to lack of talent.
PI of SGD and CGD
ORCID: 0000-0002-1692-4983
Eveline Snelders @evelinesnelders.bsky.social Associate professor @ Wageningen University & Research, NL | Antifungal resistance | Fungal genetics 🍄 | http://FUNgalSNELDERSlab.org
Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social ID doctor and fungal enthusiast. #IDSky community builder. #TxID, global health, MedEd. @idjclub.bsky.social
Posts don't represent my employer (obviously)
Jessica Brown Lab @brownlabutah.bsky.social Jessica Brown, associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah. Fungal pathogenesis. Antifungal treatment discovery. Dabbling in fungal ecology. Tweets my own. She/her.
Bing Zhai @bingzhai4.bsky.social Principal Investigator at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS. Fungal infections, Human mycobiome, Fungal-bacterial interactions, Antifungal resistance.
Zoë Hilbert @zoehilbertspace.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Boston College studying the evolution of host-pathogen interactions. Budding mycologist with a forever soft spot for nematodes. (she/her)
evolvingfungi.org
Teresa O'Meara @teresaomeara.bsky.social Associate professor in microbiology | fungal pathogenesis + genetics | UMichigan
Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social Infectious Diseases specialist doctor in London. Fungal disease researcher (UCL). Officially the 1st person to use word #Covid (according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Really). Personal views only.
Norman van Rhijn @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social Wellcome Trust Fellow at University of Manchester | Fungal infections | AMR | Antifungal dual-use | Focused on Climate Change and Epidemiology
José Vargas-Muñiz @mycorican.bsky.social 🇵🇷🏳️🌈 | Asst. Prof. @ Virginia Tech | UPRM & DukeMGM Alumnus | He/His/Him | Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsements. 🍄☣️🧫 Website: jvm-lab.weebly.com
Amelia Barber @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social Group leader at @fzborstel.bsky.social and professor at @uni-kiel.de.
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
Fungal pathoecology, antimicrobial resistance, and genome stuff.
Always up for an adventure or bike ride.
https://barber-lab.com
Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social Interested in plant pathology, fungal development, cell biology. I study a disease called rice blast and work at The Sainsbury Laboratory. Views my own.
Aleeza Gerstein @acgerstein.bsky.social Associate professor in microbiology (human fungal pathogens) & statistics (really just evolutionary genetics) at UManitoba in Winnipeg 🇨🇦
Keeps two small humans alive.
Served with a side of politics. Because it's 2026.
(she/her)
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Rebecca Shapiro @shapirorebecca.bsky.social Associate Prof @ U Guelph. Fungal genetics and functional genomics (she/her)
Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social I study evolution in fungi using genomics at UC Riverside. He/him.
Tongva, Cahuilla, Serrano lands
http://lab.stajich.org/
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social Biologist @ The Sainsbury Lab; passionate about plant pathogens & evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer. Web http://kamounlab.net | Medium https://medium.com/@kamounlab | GetGenome http://getgenome.net
Jo Rhodes @drjorhodes.com Yoga bunny. Cake guru. Scientist by day. Assistant Professor at @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Interested in fungal ‘omics and One Health, evolutionary biology and popgen, epidemiology and promoting women in STEM
🏳️🌈
Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social We want to understand how pathogens adapt and cause diseases. Also passionate about TEs, pangenomes & population genomics, bioinformatics and conservation genomics.
Professor of Evolutionary Genetics @ University of Neuchatel 🇨🇭
Hobbies: 👧🏻👧🏼🏔️🏕️
Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social Professor of fungal immunology at University of Birmingham. Lister Institute Fellow. Feminist.
www.theradlab.co.uk
Lotus Lofgren @lotuslofgren.bsky.social Fungal evolutionary ecology, genomics, bioinformatics, sci-art, code, data viz. She/her. Asst. Prof. at UC Berkeley.
@caipcoelho.bsky.social @caipcoelho.bsky.social 
Marc Swidergall @swidergall-lab.bsky.social Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Associate Professor at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Mycologist, Immunologist, Investigator at the Lundquist Institute
Nelesh Govender @neleshg.bsky.social I study fungal and bacterial diseases. Prof at Wits. @nihr Global Health Research Prof. Hon Prof at MRC-CMM @uniofexeter, City-St George's and UCT. On sabbatical from NICD. MD, micro, epi 🌈
Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Oregon State University using evolutionary/population genomics to understand fungal symbioses jessieuehling.com
LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social LaBella Lab studies codon usage (aka "silent" genetic changes) and evolution from humans to fungi | Bioinformatics & Genomics | UNC Charlotte
Run by Abbe LaBella
Opinions are my own and do not reflect any affiliated organization.
Hiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social Gene regulation in health and disease | Professor/Vice-Chair @UCSF Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysic | via Stanford, UCSF and MIT | https://madhanilab.ucsf.edu
@covolab.bsky.social @covolab.bsky.social 
FungalDoc AKA Andrej Spec @fungaldoc.bsky.social ID at @washuID obsessed with fungal infections. Section Chief, Transplant ID. #fungus #TxID #IDTwitter Head of @WU_Mycoses. Deputy Editor-OFID. He/Him
Vikas Yadav @vikasyadavsci.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School
https://www.yadavlab.org/
@acasadevall1.bsky.social @acasadevall1.bsky.social 
Josh Obar @obarlab.bsky.social Professor, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Department of Microbiology & Immunology; Laboratory of Antifungal & Antiviral Immunity (Aspergillus fumigatus / Influenza A virus)
Nikki Case (they/them), PhD @nikcase.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher | Lab of Dr. Vasilis Kokkoris at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Fungi enthusiast – avid coffee drinker and rock climber
Marco A. coelho @marcoacoelho.bsky.social Fungal Genomics & Evolution | Mating-type loci | Exploring the origins of Cryptococcus pathogens | Chromosome evolution
Assistant Research Professor @ Duke University
scholars.duke.edu/person/marco.dias.coelho
Iliev Lab @ilievlab.bsky.social Immunology, fungi-myco-anything & li'l more
https://ilievlab.org/
Eva Stukenbrock @estukenbrock.bsky.social Group leader and professor at Kiel University, Germany.
Evolutionary biology, fungi, plant-microbe interactions.
Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time. www.stevenstrogatz.com
azotlichid @azotlichid.bsky.social 
Tobias Hohl, MD PhD @fungalspore.bsky.social Physician-Scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Chief, ID Service Member, HOPP. Lab: Mycology & Immunology. Duke ‘93 and Tri-Institutional MD-PhD ‘01 Grad. Immigrant🇨🇭. ❤️ 🐕🦺, 🍄🟫, NPR, and Catskills. Comments = do not represent views of MSKCC.
Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social Professor at the NYU School of Medicine (https://yanailab.org/). Co-founder and Director of the Night Science Institute (https://night-science.org/). Co-host of the 'Night Science Podcast' https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/night-science/id1563415749
Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social Epigenetic Inheritance, Neuroscience & anything biology-related
https://www.odedrechavilab.com/
q.e.d: https://www.qedscience.com
Organizer of “The Woodstock of Biology”
TED: https://shorturl.at/myFTY
Huberman Lab Podcast: https://youtu.be/CDUetQMKM6g
Anna Selmecki @annaselmecki.bsky.social Associate Professor of Microbiology UMN Twin Cities. Fungal pathogen research on genome instability, aneuploidy, polyploidy, and drug resistance. Dog mom. Fiddle player. T1D. First gen. 
🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social MTS Serova🧑🏽💻, Evomics Workshop Codirector🧬
prev sci consultant at Anthropic, FutureHouse/Edison, Latch, Mantle (acquired). prev UC-Berkeley & Vanderbilt
🌲 https://linktr.ee/jlsteenwyk
📍 https://jlsteenwyk.com
Lucy Xie, PhD (she/her) @lucyxie.bsky.social NIAID K99 Fellow (current) and Damon Runyon Fellow (past) in Jarosz Lab at Stanford University; PhD in Cowen Lab at University of Toronto; Interested in non-genetic mechanisms of antifungal drug resistance.
Allison Porman Swain @drpormanswain.bsky.social USAFA Chemistry Assistant Professor. m6A in Candida. Singing science. All views are my own.
Asiya Gusa @asiya-gusa.bsky.social Microbiologist, Fungal Research, Duke University (opinions my own)
Website: gusalab.com
Michael Baym @baym.lol Associate Prof @HarvardMed. Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements, algorithms, phages, molecular biotech, etc. Find me under “floating dumpster fire”
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him