University of Toronto Scarborough @utsc.utoronto.ca Canada's top University 🇨🇦. We're U of T in Scarborough. #UTSC
SynBio Canada @synbiocanada.bsky.social We are Canada’s synthetic biology community. 🧬🍁 www.synbiocanada.org
CancerCare Manitoba @cancercaremb.bsky.social Manitoba's provincially mandated cancer authority providing cancer services throughout Manitoba.
cancercare.mb.ca
Mehran Dastmalchi @mehran-plantsci.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Scarborough
Canadian Society of Plant Biologists @cspbscbv.bsky.social // Société canadienne de la biologie végétale
Canadian society dedicated to supporting plant biology research.
Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social 🧬 Sequencing biodiversity. Securing its future.
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is a global moonshot for biology working to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of Earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity.
🌍 Follow us:
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Lynn Karam @lynnkaram.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Kuzmin Lab - Concordia University
Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social Macrobe qui aime les microbes
http://www.shapirolab.ca/
Giulio Chiesa @gchiesa.bsky.social research associate in @GartonLab, former @MoKhalilLab: synthetic biology, protein design and vibes.
Rachel Gregor @rachelgregor.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. Fascinated by microbial communities and their chemistry. https://www.gregorlab.com/
Rebecca Shapiro @shapirorebecca.bsky.social Associate Prof @ U Guelph. Fungal genetics and functional genomics (she/her)
SynBio7.0 @synbio7.bsky.social 7th Annual Canadian Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering conference
University of Toronto, June 1-3, 2025
https://synbio7.vercel.app/
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Ander Diaz-Navarro @dn-ander.bsky.social I’m a computational biologist and biochemist working on synthetic tumor genome generation 💻🧬 Postdoctoral researcher at University of Toronto (UofT) and Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)
Bridget Mateyko @bmateyko.bsky.social Current UBC MPH
UVIC BSc. Microbiology
🏔️🏃🏼♀️🦠🌊♻️- M Michael Murphy @michael-bc.bsky.social Professor at UBC Microbiology & Immunology.
@jeffstulberg.bsky.social @jeffstulberg.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Cell & Systems Biology at UofT.
I study endogenous stem cell reprogramming.
Artem Babaian @rnalab.bsky.social Computational Virologist |
The Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms |
Molecular Genetics / Donnelly Centre @ UofT 🇨🇦
#Bioinformatics #Virology #Genetics #Biology
Maxwell Shafer @maxshafer.bsky.social Assistant Professor UofT Cell & Systems Biology - 🐟🐠🐡 comparative genomics/ethology & evolutionary cell biology of sleep 💤 😴 + adventures with @hilsawh - https://shafer-lab.netlify.app/
John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social Ecological and evolutionary genetics in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UofT. Dad, dog lover, unashamed coffee addict.
Lars Barquist @lbarquist.bsky.social Assistant prof @ UofT, associated scientist @ Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research. Pathogen systems biology / informatics / functional genomics. Coastal New Hampshirite. Drink Moxie.
James Forward @jamesforward.bsky.social PhD student at Harvard Systems Biology
Isaac Li @isaacli.bsky.social Single-molecule biophysicist, building force-responsive DNA to study biology, love space exploration real & sci-fi. 🔬🧬🧫🌟🪐🚀
Associate Professor of Chemistry at UBC Okanagan, Canada Research Chair, Michael Smith Scholar 🍁🇨🇦
https://lilab.ok.ubc.ca/
Tamar Av-Shalom @tamaravshalom.bsky.social Cell & Systems Biology PhD candidate at University of Toronto Cell and Systems Biology | Formerly of UBC Microbiology/CS | Plant-Microbe lover 🌱🦠🧬🧫 (she/her).- A @avdvinne.bsky.social @avdvinne.bsky.social
@nadinehosny.bsky.social @nadinehosny.bsky.social 
Shamitha Aravind @shamitha-aravind.bsky.social PhD student studying mutagenesis at UofT 🧬
Djoser Genomics @djosergenomics.github.io Exploring #SyntheticBiology & #Bioinformatics + Documenting my learning journey | Built by @noureldenrihan.bsky.social | 🌐 djosergenomics.github.io
Brooke Thompson @brookethompson6.bsky.social Laboratory Manager | Biology and Biotechnology 👩🏼🔬| Saskatchewan Rush Fan 🥍 | Saskatchewan 🌾 | 🇨🇦
Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan.bsky.social 
Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto interested in molluscan systematics, evolution & genomics
laytonlab.com
Judy Li (李静迪) @jingdi.bsky.social Passionate about wildlife microbiomes and disease emergence. NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow 🇨🇦UBC Zoology with @kayla-king.bsky.social, PhD 🇬🇧Oxford Zoology, BS 🇨🇳NPU. #poetry #art #coding #hiking lovers. #FirstGen #OpenScience. She/Hers.
Aakash Natarajan @aakashn.bsky.social Graduate Student in the Maxwell Lab (Biochemistry, University of Toronto). Studying bacteria-phage interactions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Christopher Lohans @ctlohans.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Queen's University interested in antibiotics and antibiotic resistance | enzymology, microbiology, organic chemistry
Emmanuel Cazottes @manucazottes.bsky.social Gene regulation, ML and stem cells | Postdoctoral fellow w/ @carldeboer.bsky.social @sbmeubc.bsky.social | PhD w/ @crougeulle.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social | Roamer of the non-coding genome
🌐 https://emmanuelczt.github.io/
Nika Shakiba @nikashakiba.bsky.social Asst Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC; stem cell engineer and synthetic biologist with a passion for science outreach and communication.
https://shakiba.bme.ubc.ca/
Nozomu Yachie @nzmyachie.bsky.social Professor at the University of British Columbia @sbmeubc.bsky.social
Specially Appointed Professor at Osaka University PRIMe
https://yachie-lab.org
Dogancan Ozturan @agct.net postdoc @carldeboer.bsky.social working on regulatory genomics and gene therapy
Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social Tree enthusiast, forest geneticist, climate scientist, runner. Professor, University of British Columbia.
Sloboda Lab; Dr Deb Sloboda @slobodalab.bsky.social Scientist she/her; Canada Research Chair, investigating how our early life environment modifies our health; @McMaster U Canada, Dept Biochem & Biomed Sci; opinions are my own
www.slobodalab.com
@sloboda_lab
www.artofcreationstudy.com
@aoc_study
Sheila Teves @sheilateves.bsky.social Associate Professor, Biochemistry Department, Transcription & Chromatin biology, Outdoor enthusiast, Dog lover (otters too) 🇵🇭🇺🇲🇨🇦
Meaghan Jones @meaghanjones.bsky.social Associate professor at U Manitoba. Research on epigenetics of environmental exposures across the lifespan. Occasional cat photos. Formerly @notthatdrjones
Views my own.
She/Her
Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social 🧬 Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at @zoology.ubc.ca and @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social. Editor-in-Chief of @evolletters.bsky.social. Science with a sprinkling of dachshund pictures. https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/
Meghan Azad, PhD @meghanazad.bsky.social Scientist/Adventurer. @CRC_CRC Developmental Origins of Health & Disease. @UManitoba @CHRIManitoba @CHILDStudy #THRiVElab #Breastmilk #Microbiome #NatureSelfies
www.thrivediscovery.ca
Francesca Capon @francicapon.bsky.social Geneticist (@ubcmedicine.bsky.social), working mother, Italian in 🇨🇦. Interested in politics, genes, #omics, #inflammation. Views are mine.
Abhi Aggarwal @abhiaggarwal.bsky.social Resident Physician
Former researcher at the Allen Institute, Seattle
Medicine | Protein Engineering | Biosensors | Fluorescent Proteins | iGluSnFR | Imaging
Views are my own. Posts are not medical advice.
Andrea Silverj @silverja.bsky.social PhD, Computational Evolutionary Biologist working on viral metagenomics, phylogenomics, and AI.
• Postdoc @ucalgary.bsky.social
• Previously @cibiocm.bsky.social
--| https://andrea-silverj.github.io/ |--
𝕏 : @silverjand
M-A Langlois @langlois-ma.bsky.social 🇨🇦Professor of Medicine at uOttawa| Molecular virologist | Studies host immune responses to respiratory viruses 🦠 and retroviruses | Involved in pandemic preparedness research 🔬 | High throughput serology and molecular diagnostics of pathogens 🧪
Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social Associate Professor, Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada
Research: evolutionary biology, plant reproduction
Sarah Nersesian @sarahnersesian.bsky.social 🔬Postdoc, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
#ovariancancer #nkcells #spatialbiology #bioinformatics #immunology
🎨 Scientific Illustrator, Creator of @designsthatcell.bsky.social
#scicomm #sciart
Mum 🏳️🌈🇦🇲
Che Colpitts @colpittsc.bsky.social Assistant professor at Queen's University | Molecular virology | RNA viruses | Virus-host interactions
Lab website: https://colpittslab.com
Arthur Mortha @theonlylabever.bsky.social Immunology Professor at the University of Toronto
Canadian Research Chair in Mucosal Immunology
Host-Microbiota interactions
Innate Lymphoid Cells
Macrophages
Protozoa
#theonlylabever #punkrockthursday @nkg2d1
https://theonlylabever.com/
Lawrence Kazak @kazaklab.bsky.social Associate Professor, McGill University.
#AdiposeBiology, #EnergyBalance, #MitochondrialBiology, #Thermogenesis
kazaklabmcgill.ca
Bruce Verchere @bruceverchere.bsky.social Scientist / diabetes researcher at BC Children's Hospital and UBC; Director, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics; Co-founder, Integrated Nanotherapeutics. Interested in islets, mentorship, wine, baseball (Mariners), golf, theatre...
Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social Assistant Prof @UAlberta. Genetically-modified frogs 🐸, retinal development & degeneration, imaging. She/Her. Views are my own. Canadian 🇨🇦
Chen-Yang Su, PhD @chenyangsu.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD @mcgill.ca
https://chenyangsu.github.io/
Previously MSc @mila-quebec.bsky.social
Twitter: https://x.com/chenyangsu- C Claude Bhérer @claudebherer.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Dept. Human Genetics, McGill University | elle/she/her
Aki Kirbizakis @aki-zakis.bsky.social PhD candidate in Human Genetics @McGill. Computational biologist. Weightlifter.
Maria Aristizabal @maristizabal.bsky.social Assistant professor @QueensUBio 🇨🇦🇨🇴
Fundamental aspects of transcription and chromatin biology
Impacts of the environment on these processes
https://aristizabal.weebly.com
She/her
Shraddha Pai @spaiglass.bsky.social Principal Investigator at OICR, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. | Solving brain cancer with epigenetics. | Mostly science + some cycling advocacy + (astro) photography. shraddhapailab.com shraddhapai.com
Hedieh Sattarifard @hedisattarifard.bsky.social Epigenetics researcher, University of Calgary 🇨🇦🧬🥼
Elizabeth Elder @eli-elder.bsky.social PhD candidate in Serge McGraw's lab at Université de Montréal interested in epigenetics, dev bio, stem cells & bioinformatics
Charlotte Bourbon @charlottebrbn.bsky.social PhD candidate at University of Calgary 🇨🇦
🦌🦠🧬 - caribou conservation - genomics - microbiome - ecology
MSc and BSc at University of Lyon I 🇫🇷
Will Foulkes @willfoulkes.bsky.social Clinical and Lab Cancer Genetics. Chair Dept Human Genetics, McGill. “I saw no need to paint the sky”.
Tony Kwan @tonykwan.bsky.social Project Manager at the McGill Genome Centre and CEEHRC Network @ceehrc.bsky.social
Satoshi Yoshiji, MD, PhD @satoshiyoshiji.bsky.social Assistant Prof & PI at McGill University (@mcgill.ca) using human genetics & multi-omics for drug discovery | Endocrinologist | PhD at McGill & KyotoU | Visiting Scholar at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard & MGH
Twitter: https://x.com/satoshiyoshiji
Wyeth Wasserman @wywywa.bsky.social UBC bioinformatics researcher focused on gene regulation and rare disease diagnosis 
Vuk Stambolic @vukstambolic.bsky.social Cancer Researcher at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Professor at U of Toronto, also http://soundcloud.com/lupino
Haley Lab @labohaley.bsky.social We develop and apply advanced genetic manipulation technologies to make sense of biological complexity. Formerly @Genentech now @umontreal.ca. More about our lab and research here: labohaley.com- H Hannah @hannahpitas.bsky.social
Galen Wright @galenwright.bsky.social 🇿🇦 🇨🇦 Assistant Professor University of Manitoba | Canada Research Chair in Neurogenomics | precision medicine | neurological disorders | DNA repair in the brain
Liz Conibear @lizconibear.bsky.social Cell biologist, Professor at the University of British Columbia. My lab studies membrane contact sites and vesicle trafficking in yeast and human cells
DMartin @drddom.bsky.social Associate Prof at UWaterloo in Biology. Study autophagy & protein lipidation (S-acylation & N-myristoylation) in Huntington disease, ALS, & VCP Disease. Expect science, food, & dog pics (opinions my own) https://neurdyphagylab.squarespace.com/
Rachel J. Harding (she/her) @rjharding.bsky.social Principal Investigator, Huntington's Disease Research, Structural Genomics Consortium
Assistant Professor, Dept Pharmacology & Toxicology, Univerisity of Toronto
Editor-in-chief HDBuzz
Wendy Robinson 🇨🇦 @wprobins.bsky.social UBC Prof. Interested in genomics/epigenomics, placenta/fetal development, mentorship, and responsible research. Runner. Concerned about the environment.
Jonathan KM Lim @j0nlim.bsky.social Cancer biologist at @HHU / University Hospital Düsseldorf 🇩🇪
PhD @ UBC 🇨🇦
Interested in oncogenic RAS signaling, cancer metabolism, lncRNAs
GoogleScholar: https://g.co/kgs/jCXqEPN
Website: https://shorturl.at/IDSGc
Patrick MacDonald🇨🇦 @bcellorg.bsky.social Professor. CRC. University of Alberta. University of Michigan. Diabetes. Biobanking. Cells, tissues, data. HumanIslets.com, IsletCore.ca, bcell.org
Peter Pelka @peterpelka.bsky.social Professor at the University of Manitoba who studies virus-host interactions, viral causes of cancer, and oncoproteins. Lover of adenovirus and E1A. Science is my jam, but I have an open mind and diverse interests.
John Morris @johnomix.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto's Donnelly Centre
Mahmoud Pouladi @pouladilab.bsky.social Associate Professor, BCCHRI, University of British Columbia :: Neurogenetics :: NDDs :: Disease Modelling :: Drug Discovery :: iPSCs
Vanessa Dumeaux @vdumeaux.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Dpts of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Oncology at Western University, Canada. Computational Biology, Genomics, Microbes and Human Health https://lab-dumeaux.science/
Asfar Lathif @asfarlathif.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ UBC. Genomics, Gene regulation and Data Science @ de Boer Lab.
Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social We study social evolution in viruses.
Assistant Professor @zoology.ubc.ca & @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social
asherleeks.com
Landon Getz @landongetz.bsky.social PostDoc in The Maxwell Lab at the University of Toronto. PhD. | He/Him 🏳️🌈 Co-Founder of Pride in Microbiology | Saamis(Prairies) ➡️ Kjipuktuk(Halifax) ➡️ Tkaronto(Toronto).
Katie Houlahan @khoulahan.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ McMaster University. Studying the impact of inherited DNA variants on tumour evolution. 
Marco Marra @mmarra0630.bsky.social Professor, Medical Genetics and the Michael Smith Laboratories, Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre and BC Cancer Research Institute, University of British Columbia. Terry Fox Leader in Cancer Genome Science.
Charu Kaushic @ckaushic.bsky.social Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity (III)
Professor & HIV/STI Researcher, McMaster University
#CBR #EDI #WomeninSTEM
www.kaushiclab.com
Samantha L Wilson, PhD @samanthalwilson.bsky.social Asst Prof McMaster OBGYN #omics | #epigenomics | #bioinformatics | #genomics | #placenta | #preeclampsia | #machinelearning | #cfDNA | #FirstGen She/her 🇨🇦🇦🇺
Come for the science, stay for the corgi pics
Dr. Julie Claycomb @farmgirlphd.bsky.social Professor | Team leader, University of Toronto
Our lab studies small RNAs, Argonaute Proteins, and epigenetics in worms!
www.claycomblab.com
First gen academic | Working to build communities
Martin Sauvageau @martinsauvageau.bsky.social Assistant Professor @IRCM, @McGill Center for RNA Sciences, @UdeM.
RNA Biology, lncRNA, RNA Therapy, Genome Regulation sauvageaulab.org
Cote lab-The KAT in the HAT @lab-hat.bsky.social Research on chromatin linked to gene regulation and genome stability. Big multisubunit complexes!
Quebec City, Canada
TheCoteLab.com
Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social Scientist: durocherlab.org @ Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto.
Founder: Repare Therapeutics & Induxion Therapeutics
Gabriel Bossé @gabrielbosse.bsky.social Neurobiology of drug abuse using Zebrafish! @CERVO_ULaval @universitelaval in Quebec City
Marie-Pierre Dube @mpdube.bsky.social Genetic epidemiology, precision medicine, drug discovery, environmental factors. Professor at Université de Montréal, Montreal Heart Institute Pharmacogenomics Centre
Marc-André Legault @legaultm.bsky.social Genetic epidemiology and pharmacogenomics research, U de Montréal
Guillaume Bourque @guilbourque.bsky.social Prof in Human Genetics at McGill, Director of Bioinformatics at the McGill Genome Center and Director of @C3Genomics
https://computationalgenomics.ca/BourqueLab/
Ehab Abouheif @abouheif.bsky.social Student of nature, biology, and the field of eco-evo-devo (a synthesis of ecology, evolution, and developmental biology). Professor at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) https://www.abouheiflab.org/ Opinions are my own.
Amin Emad @aminmemad.bsky.social Associate Professor at #McGill University,
Director of Computational Biology and Artificial Intelligence (COMBINE) lab (https://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~aemad2/)
#Mila, Quebec AI Institute
Bastien Castagner🇨🇦 @castagner.bsky.social Professor at McGill. Drug Discovery, C. difficile infection, microbiota, chemical biology, prebiotics, glycans, polyphenols, inositol phosphates. Running/biking CastagnerLab.com