CGUE 2026 @cgue2026.bsky.social Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes
October 5-10, 2026 - Sant Feliu de Guixol (Spain)
#Eukaryotes #Protists #Microbiology #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology #ComparativeGenomics #Protistology #CellBiology
Brittany Sprecher @bsprech.bsky.social Currently a postdoc at WHOI working on spatial proteomics in Mesodinium | passionate about protists, molecular bio, kleptoplasty, bioluminescence, fluorescence, microscopy & surfing 🔬🏄
Anna Cho @choannaflagellate.bsky.social Postdoc in J. Wideman Lab @ ASU 
Der Navigator @markld97123.bsky.social Third culture kid 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇲🇾🇮🇱, photographer 📷📹, kayaker 🛶, hiker 👣, biker 🚴🏽, amateur radio operator 📻, system engineer 🖥️, autodidact, deutschfreundlich 🇩🇪, 🍆💕🍒🍑💋🍯🍍💘🦩🐓🐝☯️ Vive la difference!
Banoo Malik🇨🇦 @banoomalik.bsky.social Origin of meiosis #meiosis4eva | Visiting research scientist @UMD | Views mine
Katerina Kostirova (Polakova) @katerinakostirova.bsky.social currently PhD student in Čepička lab, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
exploring the microbial world in stinky mud
diversity and evolution of anaerobic microbial eukaryotes and microbial symbioses
Ross Waller @rosswaller.bsky.social Professor of Evolutionary Cell Biology, Director of Cambridge Biosciences BBSRC DTP, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
Pengyao Jiang @pyjiang.bsky.social New AP at MechofEvolution of ASU. PhD @Uchicago EE. postdoc at Kelley__Harris lab. Evolution, mutation rate, robustness, yeast, fly, genetics, and genomics. https://pyjiang.github.io opinion of my own
Noah Snyder-Mackler @smacklab.bsky.social 
Marco Fumasoni @marcofumasoni.bsky.social Biologist | Group leader of the Genome Maintenance and Evolution lab @gimminstitute.bsky.social | Previously @IGC, @harvardmcb.bsky.social and @ifomresearch.bsky.social | https://fumalab.github.io/
Ben Jenkins @benkinsjenkins.bsky.social Molecular mechanisms of endosymbiosis | Herchel Smith fellow @camwallerlab @oxfordbiology | 🦠 Paramecium bursaria | 🪸 Aiptasia
Ansgar Gruber @ansgargruber.bsky.social Looks at life and tries to understand.
Carl Simpson @glyptocrinus.bsky.social macroevolution CU Boulder
Sophie Westacott @sophwestacott.bsky.social Postdoc at Bristol as part of the Henehan lab's PETRARCH project. Growing radiolarians for B and Si isotopes. Interested in all things marine silica.
Yash Pardasani @thealgaeman.bsky.social PhD student Uppsala University | Burki lab | Stalking #Paulinella amoebas to understand plastid origin (primary endosymbiosis) 🧬🔬|
@ERC_Research project PlastidOrigin
https://www.burki-lab.net/yash-phd-student.html
Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋 @godi.bsky.social Biological oceanographer & phytoplankton connoisseur. Forest Lover. Stand up #TEDx person.🧚🏼♀️🦄🔬🌊 Views=mine. @institutrb.bsky.social
@BigelowLab.bsky.social @EMBO_YIN
https://jelenagodrijan.wixsite.com/godi
David Bapst @dwbapst.bsky.social Paleontologist, Graptolite Geek, R Programmer, creator of paleotree, Tabletop Roleplaying Game Nerd, Catcher of Pokémon, faculty senator. All comments are my trash opinion alone.
Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social Group Leader at EMBL spying on the social life of marine microbes and pushing for more inclusive sciences | Tara Oceans | Plankton Manifesto
https://www.embl.org/groups/vincent/
https://planktonmanifesto.org/
Nicole Coots @nicolecoots.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @UBC in Patrick Keeling's Lab || PhD earned @ASU in Gillian Gile's Lab || Interested in photosymbiosis, marine microbial ecology, and all things protists 🦠
The Life of Retaria Seminar Series:
https://thelifeofretaria.github.io/
Arkadiy Garber @ironark.bsky.social PhD, Microbiology
MS, Geological Sciences
BS, Neuroscience
Founder of MAB:
midauthorbio.com
GitHub:
https://github.com/Arkadiy-Garber
https://github.com/Middle-Author-Bioinformatics
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SGPloYgAAA
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/
Lukas VF Novak @animalculum.bsky.social Postdoc in evolution of microbes. I study protists losing mitochondria, algae stealing plastids, and bacteria living on nothing but sulfur. IUEM, Plouzané, BZH, FR. https://lukasnovak.eu/ https://scholar.social/@animalculum he/him
Justine Pinskey, PhD @justinepinskey.bsky.social Scientist, communicator, & scholar | Sr. Scientific Writer - Office of Health Equity @UmassChan | #firstgen | #scicomm | #sciart | Meat_Fight | #momademia | Views=own | she/her.
Bruce Taylor @brucedstaylor.bsky.social Research Associate at the Canadian Museum of Nature, curator of eensy creatures at iNaturalist. Strangely preoccupied with bog ciliates and arcellinid amoebae. Blogger at www.itcamefromthepond.com. Ancestrally biflagellate.
Andrew Kennard @askennard.bsky.social Postdoc at UMass Amherst (Fritz-Laylin lab). Cell biologist and biophysicist studying evolutionary cell biology of the microtubule cytoskeleton. PhD Stanford (Biophysics, Julie Theriot lab).
https://andrewkennard.github.io
Chung Hyun Cho @chc-evobio.bsky.social Postdoc in the Berger Group at the Gregor Mendel Institute - Vienna BioCenter @gmivienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social | MSCA Fellow | Interest in evolutionary biology and currently studying chromatin
del Campo Lab @delcampolab.bsky.social Microbial Ecology and Evolution Lab at IBE Barcelona led by @fonamental.bsky.social. Studying marine animal holobionts🦠🪸🌊
Athena Aktipis @athenaaktipis.bsky.social Professor at ASU, Executive Director at Cooperative Futures Institute
Varsha Mathur @varshamathur.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow @univienna | Previously EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow, JRF Brasenose College, Oxford Biology | protists/parasites/organelles 🔬🧬
Jazmin Blaz @jazminblaz.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher | Microbial ecology, evolution, genomics and other curiosities.
@ehehenberger.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social 
Jolien van Hooff @jvhooff.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Laboratory of Microbiology | Wageningen University & Research
Evolution of genomes & protein complexes | eukaryotic origins & diversity. 
Sonja Rückert @rueckertlab.bsky.social Professor at UDE/Biologist interested in biodiversity, systematics, evolution and ecology of micro-eukaryotes🔬🧫, particularly aquatic symbionts/parasites and their relationships with their hosts.
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social How did single cells become animals? We study animal's closest unicellular relatives to reconstruct the origin of animal life. #Multicellularity
https://www.multicellgenome.com
Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social @JohanaProtists | Assistant Professor at Department of Marine Sciences University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez | MIC.Rott Lab | Protists | Symbioses in Marine Anaerobes | Microbial Interactions in Ciliates | www.microttlab.org | newPI
Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) 🇯🇵 previously 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇿
evolution | cell biology | symbiosis | genomics | microbiology | marine science
https://www.oist.jp/research/research-units/ecbsu/
Tristan @tristamoeba.bsky.social PhD candidate studying the charismatic behaviors of non-model protists | Evolution of cell behaviors and sociality | Microscopy nerd | tristan.protist.info/research
Kristina Prokina @kristina-prokina.bsky.social 
Susana Breglia 🇨🇦🇦🇷 @sbreglia.bsky.social Biologist. Protists, Evolution, Microscopy. Also, -in my former life,- paleontologist
Dacks Lab (Evolutionary Cell Biology) @dackslabecb.bsky.social This is the professional account for the Evolutionary Cell Biology lab of Prof. Joel Dacks. 
Dr. Roxanne Beinart @symbiosisrox.bsky.social Microbial symbionts in marine ecosystems. Associate professor at U. Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography. Beinartlab.com. Posts reflect only my personal view and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.
Jürgen Strassert @strassert.bsky.social interested in microbial eukaryotes; #protists #chytrids
https://www.tu.berlin/en/umbio/research/working-groups/group-strassert
Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social Protists, microscopy, biophysics, evolution. Interested in how cells control shape and movement https://www.benlarson.org
Natura in minimis maxima
Asst Prof, RPI | Postdoc, UCSF, Wallace Marshall | PhD, UCBerkeley, Nicole King | BA, Physics, Reed College
Luis Javier Galindo @luisjagago.bsky.social Ramón y Cajal Research fellow at the University of Granada. Evolution and protists!
Anastasios (Tasos) Tsaousis @adtsaousis.bsky.social Academic, studying the role of gut parasites in the microbiome and in health and disease. Chair of Blastocystis under one health COST Action. #Blastocystis
Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social deep-time evolution, phylogenetics, anaerobic protists, the tree of Life. Science depends on vigorous respectful debate and evidence-based reasoning. I like cats. This is my personal page and what I post here has nothing to do with my employer.
Sergio Muñoz-Gómez @sergiophyceae.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Purdue University | Evolution of Cells, Symbionts, & Organelles | ecsolab.com
Jon Jerlström Hultqvist @jonhultqvist.bsky.social Researcher at Uppsala University interested in the evolution of microbes.
Biology and Ecology of Abundant Protists (BEAP) Lab @beaplab.bsky.social The BEAP Lab is at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) in Barcelona. Our goal is to culture and then characterize the cell biology, behavior and ecosystem relevance of abundant protists. PI: Daniel J. Richter. Web: https://www.beaplab.org/
Mercè Montoliu Nerín @mmontonerin.bsky.social Postdoc at the Tree of Life/Wellcome Sanger Institute🌳 Genomics of complex eukaryotes in symbiosis 🧬👩🏻💻 She/Her🌈
Anders K. Krabberød @krabberod.bsky.social Bioinformatician at the University of Oslo. Evolutionary biology, protists, progrock bassist.
Alex de Mendoza @alexdemendoza.bsky.social Evolutionary epigenomics ( eukaryotes / Transcription Factors / Transposable Elements / DNA methylation ) @ QMUL (London).
Lab website: https://www.demendozalab.com/
Kenneth Dumack @dumack.bsky.social Aquatic Ecosystem Analyses 🦠 Protists and their interactions.
http://kennethdumack.de
Fabrice Not @fabnot.bsky.social Senior Scientist @ Station biologique de Roscoff, France #cnrs #sorbonneuniversity
#eDNA #radiolaria #microbiomes #symbiosis #protists
Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social Exploring the great microbial eukaryote diversity and evolution, one protist at a time. I’m fascinated by this question: how have #plastids evolved? #ProtistsOnSky | Associate Prof at Uppsala University. My lab: https://www.burki-lab.net/
James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social Writing a book about horizontal gene transfer and non treelike evolution. Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology. Pangenomes. https://profmcinerney.substack.com/ 🇮🇪 https://mol-evol.github.io/
Ryan Gawryluk @gawryluk.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Fan of mitochondria and protists.
Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social Group leader at @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social (@csic.es - @upf.edu) & Adjunct at @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social. Microbial Ecology & Evolution 🔬🌍🧫🧬 🪸 @pr2-database.bsky.social Coordinator #corals #symbiosis #protists
Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at University of Geneva
Evolutionary cell biology of multicellular developmental programs
www.dudinlab.com
#Ichthyosporea, #Multicellularity, #Evolution, #Embryo, #Development, #Protist, #UExM, #Cytoskeleton, #Expansion #Microscopy
Anna Schrecengost @annaschreck.bsky.social postdoc at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography studying marine anaerobic ciliates & their prokaryotic symbionts | she/her
Anna Karnkowska @ankarn.bsky.social Fascinated by microbial eukaryotes diversity, ecology & evolution.
PI at Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw.
x.com/ania_karnkowska
#ProtistsOnSky
John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social I like to think about how cells work, especially among #protists. Driven by curiosity and a love to share detailed research and odd observations. Senior Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. He/him. https://www.protistsystems.org/
Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social professor at UCSF, engineer turned cell biologist, wants to know how cells solve geometry problems 
Claudio Slamovits 🇦🇷🇨🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @cslamo.bsky.social Biologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Researcher of genomes and evolution. Salido de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. 🇦🇷🇨🇦
Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Prof) at the University of Bath. Exploring all things microbiomes and protist diversity/evolution. 🧬🔬🦀
https://theholtlab.com
Guy Leonard @guyleonard.eurosky.social Bioinformatician w/ Tom Richards & Team at @oxfordbiology.bsky.social
Homebrewer. WSET Beer Level 2.
Rejoiner 🇪🇺🤝🇬🇧
AI is not 'inevitable', resist its uncritical adoption.
I unfollow everyone who hypes/uses genAI/LLMs/agentic coding.
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.
Vasily Zlatogursky @zlatogursky.bsky.social Protistology whatever it means. Views are mine
Alessandro Torri @alessandrotorri.bsky.social Scientific Project Manager at Inserm/Institut Pasteur.
Interests: Microbiology, Immunology, Biochemistry, Philosophy of Science, Deep Learning and Evolutionary Biology.
Megan Sorensen @messorensen.bsky.social Interested in the evolution of endosymbiosis, especially those that photosynthesise. And more broadly in evolutionary microbiology, symbiosis, organelles and protists.
Assistant Professor at CeMESS, University of Vienna.