Pável Matos @pavelmatosm.bsky.social Research Scientist @ Czech Academy of Sciences | Biogeography | Evolution | Phylogeny | Butterflies | Peru
Antigen Evolution & Design Lab @antigenevo.bsky.social We study how pathogen antigen proteins evolve and use this knowledge to improve how we design vaccines and therapeutics 💻 💉 🧬
@pasteur.fr 🇫🇷
Lab Head 🧑🦱 @spyroslytras.bsky.social
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/antigen-evolution-and-design/
Ally Phillimore @allyphillimore.bsky.social Phenology, adaptation and climate change. Based at University of Edinburgh. He/him www.phenoweb.org project. See also @phenoweb.bsky.social
Programme director for Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity MSc
CVR Bioinformatics @cvrbioinfo.bsky.social We are a group of computer-based researchers at @CVRinfo.bsky.social
Joseph Hughes @bljog.bsky.social https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/people/joseph-hughes/
Bioinformatics, phylogenetics, open science, bikes and cycling, ranting.
Views my own.
Ulad Litvin @ulad-litvin.bsky.social PhD student (MRC-UofG CVR)
🏰 antiviral defence | 🧬 evolution | 🔮 protein structure prediction
Rafa Sanjuan @rafa-sanjuan.bsky.social Virology. Evolution. Science at large. Now focused on emergent viruses. Universitat de Valencia.
Jérémy Dufloo @jeremydufloo.bsky.social Postdoc in Rafael Sanjuán's lab (Universidad de Valencia) studying viral emergence experimentally | Former PhD in Olivier Schwartz's lab (Institut Pasteur) studying antibody responses against HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2
Miguel 💻🧬 @ahmig.es Bioinformatician and PhD candidate @pathogenomics.bsky.social, @i2sysbio.es | Pathogen evolution and metabolic reconstruction of pathogens
biotech BSc USAL & bioinfo MSc @uv.es
💻 github.com/ahmig | tangled.org/ahmig.es | ahmig.es
📍 València
Arman Bilge @armanbil.ge Executive Director of @typelevel.org Foundation
Ausrine Zvirblyte @azvirblyte.bsky.social 
Idas Jasaitis @idasjasaitis.bsky.social Life goal:
Run DOOM64 on the contig level
biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social Reluctant
@jjuozapaitis.bsky.social @jjuozapaitis.bsky.social 
Ricardo Rivero H. 💻🧬 @ricardoriveroh.bsky.social Wet lab Biotechnologist by training, Computational Biologist by choice.
Interested in Viral Evolution, Genomic Epidemiology and AI for Biology.
opinions are my own🧬
ricardoriveroh.com
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.
Dr Elita Jauneikaite @elitajaun.bsky.social Lecturer in Microbiome and Bacterial Genomics. Main interests maternal and fetal health, AMR, group B strep, CPEs and HCAI 🤓
Simon Roux @simrouxvirus.bsky.social Virus-obsessed bioinformatician, DOE JGI Scientist, Enjoy exploring the viral world with #metagenomics and other cool #omics toys. He/him. Opinions my own. 
Shoichi Sakaguchi @sho1.bsky.social NeoRdRp, RdRp Summit
Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social Medhist=medieval+medical history (https://hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2/). Focus on Global Health. Open-access: The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta, https://works.hcommons.org/records/n3h76-6dg78.
@danielstreicker.bsky.social @danielstreicker.bsky.social a bit late to the party
@ifeanyiomah.bsky.social @ifeanyiomah.bsky.social PhD candidate, Rambaut lab | Virus evolution | genomic epidemiology| phylogenetics | Bioinformatics| Emerging Leader in Biosecurity Fellow, Johns Hopkins University.
Bernadeta Dadonaite @bdadonaite.bsky.social Associate Researcher @ Fred Hutch.
Lewis Stevens @phylewgenetics.bsky.social I like worms, genomes, & evolution.
Postdoc in Tree of Life @ Wellcome Sanger Institute. He/him.
@psathyrella.bsky.social @psathyrella.bsky.social 
Kamile Tamusauskaite @tamusauskaite.bsky.social PhD Student interested in psychiatric genomics, University of Exeter | Synapses & Schizophrenia 🧠
Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social Professor at UArizona interested in genome rummaging, microbial evolution, and occasional tales about having backyard farm animals.
“I’m something of a scientist myself”
Baltrus(at)Arizona.edu
jepekar @jevp.bsky.social 
European Virus Bioinformatics Center @evbc.bsky.social Bringing together the excellence of virology and bioinformatics.
Tools: http://bit.ly/evbctools
Impressum: https://evbc.uni-jena.de/impressum/
@rachidtahzima.bsky.social @rachidtahzima.bsky.social Evolutionary Virologist@VUB (Ass. Prof, form. Ntl. Ref. Gov. Lab.) - Ai-based Struct. Biology Bio-Defense/Modulome/OneHealth Comput’al Proteomics and Biophysics Founder@MetaVIRIA🦠
@IBSquare/Vrije University Brussel (VUB) @vubrussel.bsky.social
RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social A discussion-centric event that aims to foster reproducibility, collaboration & interoperability in omics-derived RNA virus discovery. 2nd RdRp Summit - May 11 & 12 2025. RdRp.io
@emremertasar.bsky.social @emremertasar.bsky.social 
Kirstyn Brunker @kirstynbrunker.bsky.social Research Fellow at University of Glasgow. Pathogen genomics for planetary health | genomic surveillance |phylogenetics | nanopore
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Raphaëlle K @raph-klitting.bsky.social Researcher/Virologist - Emerging Viruses Unit -
National Reference Center for Arboviruses
Main interests:
🦠 Emerging virus genomics (arbos+), ecology, 🍫, environmentalism, blobs, nature sports, filling boxes (or anything that can contain stuff)
Sebastian Lequime @lequimelab.eu Associate prof @gelifes.bsky.social @rug.nl | virus ecology and evolution | arboviruses | arthropods | epidemiology
🇫🇷 in 🇳🇱
Data editor at the Journal of Evolutionary Biology
https://lequimelab.eu/
Josh Levy @josh-levy.bsky.social Virus spread and evolution + connection to behavior.
@Scripps Research, CA. 
Guy Baele @guybaele.bsky.social Associate Professor - Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation - Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium
EMBO @embo.org EMBO is the organization of more than 2,200 leading researchers that promotes excellence in life sciences in Europe and beyond.
https://www.embo.org/
Frederick "Erick" Matsen @matsen.bsky.social I ♥ evolution, immunology, math, & computers. Professor at Fred Hutch & Investigator at HHMI. http://matsen.fredhutch.org/
Jisca Huisman @jisca-h.bsky.social Population genetics, programming, and pedigrees. And plants 🪴🌿
Freelance genetic pedigree reconstructor / creator of R package sequoia ( jiscah.github.io ) / part-time garden centre employee / full-time cat guardian🐈
Karolis Vyšniauskas @karolisvy.bsky.social Journalist and media educator. Editor at NARA.lt, lecturer at Vilnius University. In search of a more meaningful connection online.
In Vilnius, Lithuania.
Greg Ebel @ebellaboratory.bsky.social Arbovirologist | Arbovirus-mosquito interactions | virus evolution | entomology | molecular biology | Sometimes posts about random things
Inga Songailiene @ingasongailiene.bsky.social 🇱🇹 Biochemist, PhD. CRISPR and TA systems, anti-phage response, nucleases, Cryo-EM.
MSCA postdoc at N.Taylor lab in CPH 🇩🇰
Vaidotas Zemlys-Balevičius @mpiktas.lt Mathematician, econometrician, data scientist. Hate stupidity with passion. Will argue about anything.
Armando Arias @armandoarias.bsky.social Scientist, Virology, UCLM, ETSIAMB, Albacete, CBMSO, Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Cambridge, Imperial College, DTU, basketball
@bacelis.bsky.social @bacelis.bsky.social 
Patrick Pausch @patrick-pausch.bsky.social Research Professor & Group Leader at Vilnius University, LSC-EMBL - CRISPR, Gene Editing and Microbiology
Kim Andrews @kimandrews.bsky.social Bioinformatician, Evolutionary Biologist, Molecular Ecologist
@sarah-c-hill.bsky.social @sarah-c-hill.bsky.social 
Jack Kamm @snackematician.bsky.social Statistician working in genomics. https://jackkamm.github.io/
Karel Břinda @brinda.eu ‖ Permanent Researcher / INRIA Start. Faculty @ INRIA Rennes 🇫🇷 ‖
BioInfo/CompBio: algorithms, genomics, pathogens & rapid diagnostic of antibiotic resistance《 https://brinda.eu | https://github.com/karel-brinda 》
Chris Illingworth @chrisillingworth.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the MRC University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research.
Dr Liam Brierley @liambrierley.bsky.social Virologist, statistician, and science presenter.
Runs @vibelab.co.uk
Research Fellow at @cvrinfo.bsky.social
Ambassador for @royalstatsoc.bsky.social
Five parts emerging virus epi, two parts R/compsci, ten parts caffeine.
he/him 🏳️🌈♾
Philippe Lemey's lab @lemeylab.bsky.social Tweets sometimes by Philippe Lemey, but usually by other (mysterious) lab members. Lab website: https://rega.kuleuven.be/cev/ecv
Tanja Stadler @tanjastadler.bsky.social Full professor for Computational Evolution at ETH Zürich
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Sebastien Calvignac-Spencer @scs22.bsky.social Infectious disease ecology and evolution, pathogen genomics, environmental DNA, ancient DNA/RNA
Rachel Colquhoun @rmcolq.bsky.social Bioinformatics for metagenomics and viral sequence data
Simon Frost @sdwfrost.bsky.social Principal Data Scientist @ Microsoft Premonition, Professor of Pathogen Dynamics @ LSHTM, Co-Founder and Principal Data Scientist @ DIOSynVax. Interested in all things infectious!
Danny Park @dannyjpark.bsky.social I use genomics to study the evolution and spread of human pathogens and lead pathogen genomic analytics at the Broad Institute.
Also: @dpark@mstdn.science
ORCID: 0000-0001-7226-7781
GitHub: dpark01
@payscue.bsky.social @payscue.bsky.social 
Verity Hill @viralverity.bsky.social Wellcome ECA Fellow at the Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow
Phylodynamics for public health
https://viralverity.github.io
She/her
Kate Grabowski @kategrabowski.bsky.social Originally from Luzerne County, PA now in Baltimore. Infectious diseases epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University with a focus on HIV epidemic dynamics and control in Africa. Mom of two humans and one dog. Penn State grad.
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social forever virologist but not a working one. past researcher. PCR guy. past lab manager. husband. dad. reader. writer. fixer. bad typist. learner. australian.
#MasksWork
https://virologydownunder.com/
Christophe Fraser's Group @christophraser.bsky.social Posts from the research group of Christophe Fraser, Professor and Head of Data, Epidemiology and Analytics at the Pandemic Science Institute, University of Oxford. Infectious disease epidemiology & evolution: HIV, COVID, outbreaks, AMR.
BenjMurrell @benjmurrell.bsky.social 🇸🇪🇿🇦 Researcher at Karolinska. Comp bio. Phylogenetics. Deep learning. All in Julia. Virology. Immunology.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I80vy5cAAAAJ
Sebastian Funk @sbfnk.bsky.social Professor of Infectious Disease Dynamics at @lshtm.bsky.social. Developing methods for making sense of outbreak data. Outside of work trying to make sense of the rest of the world.
Spyros Lytras @spyroslytras.bsky.social Head of the Antigen Evolution and Design lab @antigenevo.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur 🇫🇷
💻🦠🏳️🌈
Nathan Grubaugh @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Studies 🦟🦠 🧬transmission, evolution, and emergence. PI of http://dengue-lineages.org. Will sequence for 🍺.
Lab website: https://grubaughlab.com/
Karthik @gkarthik.com I’m here.
https://gkarthik.com/
Gustavo Palacios @guspalpog.bsky.social Dad. Virologist. Emerging infectious diseases. Born in Argentina. Fútbol.
Roman Biek @rbiek.bsky.social Infectious disease ecology, zoonoses, pathogen evolution, molecular epidemiology | University of Glasgow
the great outdoors, aikido, and searching for the perfect beat…
Katy Brown @thekatybrown.bsky.social Postdoc in computational genomics studying RNA viruses at Cambridge. She/Her https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8400-6922
Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social grew up as a human in Ukraine, grew up as a scientist in USA | stochastic processes | statistical modeling | infectious disease dynamics | phylogenetics | systems biology | DEI in STEM/Statistics | faculty @ucirvine.bsky.social
http://vnminin.github.io
Nídia S. Trovão, PhD @nidiatrovao.bsky.social Lead of GEEP at NIH/FIC | Phylodynamics | Bayesian inference | Viral evolution | Disease ecology | Views are my own
Connor G G Bamford @connorggbamford.bsky.social Scientist and educator interested in viruses, immunity and evolution. Currently group leader and lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. Member of MicroSoc Virus Division, and Young Academy Ireland.
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social Author and journalist. The Song of the Dodo, Spillover, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, The Tangled Tree, Breathless, and other books. Most recently, The Heartbeat of the Wild. Bunch of magazine work since 1981.
Robert J. Gifford @robjgifford.bsky.social I carry out research into the evolution of viruses and their impact on host species. Open science.
Nail Garejev @nag3lt.bsky.social Physicist, Programmer, Photographer
One of the Nine
🇱🇹
Jon Mifsud @jonathonmifsud.bsky.social Postdoc @ KU Leuven | Virus evolution 🧬👨💻
Andrew Routh @andrewrouth.bsky.social Molecular virologist | Deep-sequencer | Institute Investigator at Scripps Research |
Co-founder and CSO at ClickSeq Technologies | 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 | He/him | Dad
Mahan Ghafari @mghafari.bsky.social Molecular evolution of pathogens | Wellcome Trust Fellow @biology.ox.ac.uk | Independent Investigator Data Analytics & Epi Group @psioxford.bsky.social | MedSci Fellow @lincoln.ox.ac.uk | Oxford DTP & Zoology alum | https://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ4613/
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
Claire Guinat @claireguinat.bsky.social Research fellow at INRAE (DVM, MSc, PhD) #epidemiology #phylodynamics #animal infectious diseases 🦠🐔🐮🐷🧬
Ana Bento @anaisabelbento.bsky.social Assistant Prof @Cornellvet | @ImperialCollege PhD | Quantitative Epi & Infectious Disease Eco-Evo
Noémie Lefrancq @noemielefrancq.bsky.social Phylogenetics 🧬 , infectious disease dynamics 🦠 & modelling 💻 #IDSky #IDModelling
Postdoctoral fellow @ETH Zürich (in Basel)
Previously @Cambridge_Uni and @institutpasteur
Dr. Rowan Durrant @rowandurrant.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Glasgow | virus phylogenetics and evolutionary modelling | she/her
Alexei Drummond @alexeidrummond.bsky.social Professor of Computational Biology, University of Auckland. Atheist, Rock climber, Trail runner. Co-creator of BEAST1 and BEAST2. Founder of Geneious. 
Laboratory of Functional Viromics (LETKO) @fviromics.bsky.social Dr. Michael Letko’s Laboratory of Functional Viromics | we study zoonotic potential of novel viruses.
For more information, check out our website: https://labs.wsu.edu/lofv/
Arinjay Banerjee @banerjeelab.ca Virologist | Canada Research Chair in Zoonotic Viruses and Animal Reservoirs | Co-Lead, One Health, USask | CAHS Emerging Leader | My team investigates how zoonotic viruses make us sick #LZCI | My views
Laboratory website: https://banerjeelab.ca/
Colin Parrish @colinparrish.bsky.social Virologist, studies viruses that have caused epidemics and pandemics. New Zealander, been at Cornell since 1988. Former American Society of Virology President, NAS, editor J. Virol. Hiking, kayaking, biking, traveling, photography.
Meyer Lab @themeyerlab.bsky.social Virology Lab | RNA Viruses | experimental viral evolution and its limits | trying something new every day | 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇦🇺🇲🇽
Finlay Maguire @finlaym.bsky.social Ast Prof CS+Epi at Dalhousie/Pathogenomics Bioinformatics Lead at Shared Hospital Lab (Sunnybrook): infectious disease genomic epidemiology (AMR/SC2/Zoonoses) & socially-focused collab data science (he/him)
Miguel Paredes @paredesmig.bsky.social Working on Genomic Epidemiology & Phylodynamics. MD-PhD student at the University of Washington/Fred Hutch Cancer Center. He/him/él 🇨🇴🏳️🌈
Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social Study genetic conflicts professionally. Try to avoid conflicts in personal life (with mixed results).
Fred Hutch Basic Sciences,
UW Genome Sciences,
HHMI.
Posting in a personal capacity. My posts don’t reflect my employers’ opinions.
Simon Cauchemez @scauchemez.bsky.social Professor of infectious disease epidemiology and modelling at Institut Pasteur, Paris. Transmission, epidemic dynamics and forecasting, seroepidemiology, vaccines and NPIs, respiratory and vector born diseases, zoonoses, Public Health. #IDSky
Aidan O'Donnell @thetoiletduck.bsky.social Kiwi. Typo addict.
Scientist / Parasitologist (i don't often talk about work on here tho)
Certified nugget.
SalehLab @salehlabparis.bsky.social Immunity, insects, viruses, idealism and everything else.
Institut Pasteur
Paris