Ling-Dong Shi @lingdong-shi.bsky.social 
Life Science Zurich @lifesciencezurich.bsky.social Connecting life sciences in Zurich: research, education, innovation, and science outreach at UZH & ETH Zurich. 🌱🔬✨
https://www.lifescience-zurich.uzh.ch/en.html
Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social We develop new ways to “see” and understand viruses in the laboratory and in nature.
Doudna Lab @doudna-lab.bsky.social News from Jennifer Doudna's lab at UC Berkeley, Innovative Genomics Institute. Tweets from lab members and not Jennifer Doudna unless signed JD. Tweets represent personal views only.
doudnalab.org
Department of Biology, ETH Zurich @eth-dbiol.bsky.social Research and teaching unit of ETH Zurich, focusing on Molecular Mechanisms in Health and Disease, Microbiology, Immunology, Virology, Systems Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Plant Biology, Molecular and Structural Biology.
ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @isme-microbes.bsky.social The International Society for Microbial Ecology is a non-profit association and owner of the ISME Journal and ISME Communications.
Next symposium #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand in August 2026. 
Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social Environmental microbiologist and CRC at UWaterloo. Tangent-prone story teller and compulsive frisbee chaser. Views are my own. 
André Soares @geomicrosoares.bsky.social 🇵🇹 Staff Scientist @probstlab.bsky.social
(@unidue.bsky.social - 🇩🇪). Microbial genomics in the One Health context, biogeochemistry of cave microbiomes, alga-microbe symbioses.
Cultivarium @cultivarium.bsky.social www.cultivarium.org
Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com Systems Microbial Ecologist | Microbial Cultivation | F1 & IndyCar fan. Metalhead. Studying microbes in Desert Soil and nearshore Marine Sediments.
Blog: uncultured.carinilab.com
Web: CariniLab.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-carini/
Agroscope @agroscope.bsky.social Agrarforschung für die Schweiz
Recherche agricole pour la Suisse
Ricerca agricola per la Svizzera
Agricultural research for Switzerland
agroscope.ch
Amelia Rotaru @ameliarotaru.bsky.social Professor of microbial physiology and biochemistry, University of Southern Denmark.
Working on interspecies interactions, electroactive metabolisms, methane cycle
#electromicrobiology
Lab website: https://rotarulab.com/
Meret Aeppli @meretaeppli.bsky.social Assistant professor at EPFL
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/soil/
Wenyu Gu @wenyugu.bsky.social PI at EPFL, environmental microbiology
microbes.epfl.ch
Alex Loy @loyteam.bsky.social Professor for Microbial Communities @dome-vienna.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social University of Vienna @univie.ac.at 🇦🇹, studying the role of microbes 🦠 in environmental and human health, sulfur microbes & gut microbiome
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social We study function, communication and interaction of #microorganisms, with emphasis on microbial metabolism, synthesis & function of natural products, and cellular communication, regulation and organisation. Imprint: https://www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/imprint
DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social The home of digital resources of the DSMZ (@leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social), including BRENDA, SILVA, LPSN and BacDive.
Visit hub.dsmz.de
Núria Casacuberta aka TITANICA @nuriacasacuberta.bsky.social Passionate about Oceans, Tracers, Radionuclides, Observations, the Arctic and the North Atlantic. Science and fun!
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
Archaea Power Hour @archaeapowerhour.bsky.social Official Archaea Power Hour seminar series! Website https://www.archaea.bio/archaea-power-hour 
Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social Bacteriophages, dormant bacteria, and bacterial immunity. Assistant Professor of Molecular Phage Biology at ETH Zürich.
César de la Fuente @delafuentelab.bsky.social Presidential Associate Professor @upenn.edu - using AI to reimagine antibiotic discovery and peptide design. Previously @MIT, @UBC
🔗 https://delafuentelab.seas.upenn.edu
Jennifer Doudna @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social Doudna Lab at UC Berkeley, Innovative Genomics Institute founder, CRISPR co-inventor and Nobel laureate innovativegenomics.org/
The Banfield Lab @banfieldlab.bsky.social Located at the University of California-Berkeley at the Innovative Genomics Institute.
Purveyors of Microbial Ecology, Bioinformatics, & Nanogeoscience.
Reposts or likes≠endorsements.
https://www.banfieldlab.com/
FEMS Journals @femsjournals.bsky.social Not-for-profit microbiology journals from @femsmicro.org | Publish with purpose | https://academic.oup.com/fems-journals | #FEMSJournals | #OpenAccess | #PeerReview | #Microbiology | Published with Oxford University Press (OUP)
Eawag Aquatic Research @eawag.bsky.social Science that matters 🔬💧 The official account of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Eawag. www.eawag.ch 
Sebastian Haiß @sebastianhaiss.bsky.social 
Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social Phonologist, dad, and sometime psycholinguist wannabe. I study and promote Australian Indigenous languages and cultures. UMelbourne. Truth is, I'm mostly here for the physics arguments. And the archaeology. - S SchmitzStreitsLAB @schmitzstreitslab.bsky.social We are interested in #archaea,#regulation,#ncRNA,#smallproteins & novel biomolecules from nature, CAU Kiel
https://www.mikrobio.uni-kiel.de/de/ag-schmitz-streit
Views are our own
Karen Lloyd @karenlloyd.bsky.social Subsurface microbiologist/biogeochemist, runner, laugher, wife, parent, TED speaker, Wrigley Prof. at U. Southern California, she/her, got a book coming out in May 2025 called INTRAterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
Jo Herbert @microjo.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Microbiology - Schölmerich Lab | ETH Zürich🇨🇭| Metagenomics & ONT | 🧬 🧫🧪🔬| losing the ggplot 📊 | she/her
VAAM e.V. @vaam-microbes.bsky.social Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie
Trends in Microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Posts by Shankar Iyer, editor of Trends in Microbiology.
EMBLtrec @embltrec.bsky.social An expedition to study coastal ecosystems and their response to the environment, from molecules to communities
Anish Kirtane @dnasaur.bsky.social eDNA Scientist at ETH Zurich 
Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg @borklab.bsky.social Computational biology lab focusing on microbiomes in the human gut and the environment
Homepage: https://www.bork.embl.de/
Mastodon: https://mstdn.science/@BorkLab
Michael Zimmermann Lab @zimmermannlab.bsky.social We use high-throughput MS, bacterial genetics, gnotobiology & computational models to study metabolic interactions in microbial ecosystems
@EMBL
Homepage: https://www.embl.org/groups/zimmermann/
Nature @nature.com Research, news, and commentary from Nature, the international science journal. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: https://go.nature.com/get-Nature-Briefing
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/
Maryse Berkhout @maryseberkhout.bsky.social Microbes & glycans 🤩 | Gut Microbial Ecology | Wageningen University, NL | https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=PhNYBVUAAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=ao
Erika C. Freeman @ecfreewoman.bsky.social 🌳🌲💧 Scientist @ IGB Berlin | Gates Cambridge | Future Collaborator?
🇨🇦➡️🇬🇧➡️🇨🇭➡️🇩🇪| | 🧗🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️⛰️
webpage: https://erikacfreeman.com
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=E6WubOUAAAAJ&hl=en & LinkedIn
Lina Kim @linathekim.bsky.social Scientist 🇺🇸 in🇨🇭intererested in biology, current events, and faith.
🎓 BSc MIT
🧪 PhD @ethz.ch
Former @sturlalab.bsky.social and Boston biotech alum.
Andrew Quinn @andrewhq9.bsky.social Microbiome & metabolomics scientist @UNIL
Focused on Agrochemicals and metabolic interactions between gut microbes and their honeybee host🇨🇭🐝🦠
https://engelbeelab.com/
Microbial Systems Ecology Lab @micsysecolab.bsky.social We study general principles that organise microbial systems, at ETH Zürich and Eawag | Posts by group members
https://mse.ethz.ch
Francisco Zorrilla @metagenomez.bsky.social omics-driven and constraint-based modeling of microbial community metabolism 🧬 post-doc in the Sunagawa Lab, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich
Center for Electromicrobiology @cemau.bsky.social No one had ever imagined the existence of cable bacteria: life based on internal electric wires. We aim to unravel how this unique form of life functions.
Check out the Electromicrobiology Conference 2025 https://conferences.au.dk/electromicrobiology-2025
Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social Connecting and supporting early career researcher peatland scientists worldwide through networking, skill sharing, and collaboration.
peatecr.com
ThünenPeat @thuenenpeat.bsky.social Peatland group at the Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture
https://www.thuenen.de/en/institutes/climate-smart-agriculture/fields-of-activity/moore
Alexandra Werner @olaalex.bsky.social PhD student in Ecosystem Management @usyseth.bsky.social 🌿🌳🌎 Slightly into Peatland Ecosystems, soil carbon dynamics & Mountainbikes 🏔 🚵
she/her
Alicia Pérez Lorente @aliciaperezlorente.bsky.social PhD candidate FPU in Microbiology, University of Málaga (Spain). Interested in microbial ecology, metabolomics, interspecies interactions and T6SS.
https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=pn3QZfUAAAAJ&hl=es
https://bacbiolab.com/
Schmitt-Mechulam Lab @tbioc.bsky.social Translation mechanisms team @BIOC @CNRS.bsky.social @Ecole Polytechnique @IP-Paris.bsky.social
Archaea Ribosome Evolution CryoEM
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.
Ben Adler @benadler.bsky.social Postdoc @ Doudna Lab - UC-Berkeley | Bacteriophage engineering | CRISPR | Biotechnology | Microbiology | All Combinations Thereof | He/him. Opinions my own.
Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social Professor of Microbiome Ecology at Institute of Biology, Leiden University
Bacillus subtilis, biofilms, plant microbiome, bacteria-fungi interactions and circadian clock within @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG
https://linktr.ee/atkovacs
DOME - Microbial Ecology 🧫🔬🦠🧬 @dome-vienna.bsky.social Division of Microbial Ecology
Centre for Microbiology & Environmental Systems Science @cemess.bsky.social
University of Vienna @univie.ac.at 🇦🇹
Hunting for microbes 🦠 since 2003
Chris Rinke @chrisrinke.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology @ University of Innsbruck, Austria
Honorary Associate Professor @ The University of Queensland, Australia
Environmental OMICS (E-OMICS) team lead
http://www.rinkelab.org
(former twitter/x account: @ChristianRinke )
Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social Professor, USC Marine and Environmental Biology, microbe hunter. Dad, husband. he/him. Not a bot. thethrashlab.com @the.thrash.lab
Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Portfolio’s high-quality products and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences is dedicated to serving the scientific community.
Sebastian Winter @sewinter.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis Health.
Host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions. Gut microbiome. Model trains.
Opinions are my own.
Travis Kochan, Ph.D. @tkochanphd.bsky.social Principal Investigator at US-FDA | Klebsiella pneumoniae pathogen genomics | Star Wars nerd | Father and Husband | Video games | books | bowling
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. 
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/
Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com Nature Microbiology publishes the latest research and commentary in all areas of microbiology.
https://www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/
Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr 👩🔬 The Institut Pasteur is a leading global biomedical research institute.
🔬 Explore with us the frontiers of biomedical research
🧪 Follow us to uncover groundbreaking discoveries
🌍 Join a community passionate about progress and open science
Kathryn (Katy) Appler @katyappler.bsky.social 💻 Postdoc, Institut Pasteur | Dr. Simonetta Gribaldo
🌊 Ph.D. in Marine Science @UTMSI, University of Texas at Austin | Dr. Brett Baker’s Lab
🧬 Exploring Asgard archaea, deep-sea ecosystems, and the evolution of complex life.
Joint Genome Institute @jgi.doe.gov We are a DOE User Facility providing access to integrative genome science capabilities. Located at Berkeley Lab. Work with us: http://jointgeno.me/proposals_B
FEMS @femsmicro.org Federation of European Microbiological Societies | https://femsmicro.start.page | Follow the not-for-profit FEMS Journals: @femsjournals.bsky.social | #microbiology | Growing microbial futures at FEMS MICRO Ljubljana 2027: femsmicro.org
The Probst Lab @probstlab.bsky.social Group for Microbial Systems Ecology, led by @alexjprobst.bsky.social
Microbial, viral, & geochemical interactions by linking meta'omics & microscopy
Managed by @geomicrosoares.bsky.social
bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social 
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.
Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social Professor of microbial ecology and evolution at Univ of Texas Austin.
@monicds.bsky.social @monicds.bsky.social 
Oxford Nanopore @nanoporetech.com 🌍Direct DNA/RNA analysis for anyone, anywhere
🧬Short to ultra-long reads in real-time for rapid insights
🔬Products for research use only
PacBio @pacbio.bsky.social Our mission is to enable the promise of genomics to better human health by creating the world’s most advanced sequencing technologies. 
Martin Hartmann @martinhartmann.bsky.social Adjunct Professor, Sustainable Agroecosystems, ETH Zurich. Soil microbial ecologist. EiC of the European Journal of Soil Biology. Loves to study and teach about soil biodiversity. 🦠🍄🪱🌾
Kristy Deiner @alpineedna.bsky.social Fascinated and humbled by #biodiversity. I understand it using #eDNA as CEO at SimplexDNA. Views and typos are my own. She/her(s).
Pauline Béziat @paulinebeziat.bsky.social Lover of algae, cats and all things art science. PhD student at ETH Zurich interested in ✨selenium ✨& marine phytoplankton 
EMBL @embl.org The European Molecular Biology Laboratory drives visionary basic research and technology development in the life sciences. www.embl.org
EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) provides open biological data resources and tools, and performs basic research in computational biology. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social As the only "marine" institute within the Max Planck Society, we do basic research in order to better understand microbial life in the oceans and its impacts the environment.- B @bledinadede.bsky.social @bledinadede.bsky.social
Pedro Leão @pedroleao.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Radboud University 🇳🇱 | Brazilian microbiologist 🇧🇷 | Impact of virus-host interactions in Ecology and Evolution 👀
https://vee-lab.eu
Taylor priest @taylorpriest.bsky.social NOMIS-ETH fellow at Institute of Microbiology and Center of Origin and Prevalence of Life, ETH Zurich | microbial ecologist interested in diversification, evolution and mobile genetic elements | Parent of a beautiful Briard | food and fitness enthusiast
Alex Probst @alexjprobst.bsky.social Professor for Microbiology at Research Alliance Ruhr, Uni-DUE, #ERCSyg awardee, member of CRC RESIST
#microbiome #omics #microscopy #ecophysiology
Free time: Dad, weight training, cs2, nature, bbq, board games, pottery
Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology @ WUR 🇳🇱 | Evolutionary microbiology | Exploring the Tree of Life | Archaea aficionado | Symbiotic interactions | husband, father, cat-person, eternal house renovator, secretly a Jedi knight
Geo Santiago-Martínez @geosantiagom.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at MCB UConn 🔬🧬🏳️🌈 (He/él)
#newPI Microbial Ecophysiology Lab
https://microbial-ecophysiology-lab.mcb.uconn.edu/
Mexican & Indigenous, 1st gen
#Methane #Microbes #Methanogen #Archaea #Microbiome #ArchaeaPower #OneHealth #Astrobiology #Proteins
ETH Zurich @ethz.ch Where the future begins. 🚀🔬 One of the world’s leading universities for technology & natural sciences. Posts in both English and German.
www.ethz.ch
Departement Umweltsystemwissenschaften (D-USYS), ETH Zürich @usyseth.bsky.social Understand. Engage. Inspire Change.
Research and teaching in Environmental and Agricultural Sciences at ETH Zurich. Managed by D-USYS Comms team. #usyslife #usysscience #usysawards #usysstudents
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) @snsf.ch The Swiss National Science Foundation funds excellent research at universities and other institutions – from chemistry to medicine to sociology.
We invest in researchers and their ideas 🔬🌱📚 — www.snf.ch/en
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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social Professor of Ecosystem Data Science at @hifmb.bsky.social studying the ecology and evolution of microbes through high-resolution 'omics and #anvio
Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com Nature Communications is an open access journal publishing high-quality research in all areas of the biological, physical, chemical, clinical, social, and Earth sciences.
www.nature.com/ncomms/
Kris McNeill @krismcneill.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Chemistry at ETH Zurich
Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social archaea, methane, microbial ecophysiology, single cell activity, next generation physiology & boardgames / for evidence-based decision-making / I don’t mince words / posts reflect personal views / www.environmental-microbiology.com
Chris Greening @greening.bsky.social Professor & NHMRC Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne. Using microbes to tackle global challenges in health and sustainability. #FirstGen 🐶🇦🇺🌈🎹🌱
Mike Jetten @msmjetten.bsky.social Anammox, anaerobic microbiology, methane, nitrogen cycle, microbial ecology, KNVM, Mike Jetten Award, archaea, comammox, Methylomirabilis, Methanoperedens, denitrification, metagenomics, biogeochemistry, coastal ecosystems
Ben J Woodcroft @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social Yet another microbial bioinformatician, group leader, dad
github.com/wwood https://research.qut.edu.au/cmr/team/ben-woodcroft/
Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social Using genome engineering to solve humanity’s greatest problems in health, climate & sustainable agriculture. UC Berkeley, UCSF, UC Davis, UC San Diego. https://innovativegenomics.org/
Tomas Hessler @tomas-hessler.bsky.social Postdoc at UC Berkeley Metagenomics | Microbial ecology | Phage | Bioprocess engineering 🇿🇦 views are my own
Cornelia Welte @cuwelte.bsky.social Professor in Microbial Physiology in NL, methane microbes & biodegradation, science mom, she/her
Simonetta Gribaldo @sgribaldo.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist. Head of lab at Institut Pasteur, Paris. Microbial diversity and evolution. Phylogenomics, Tree of Life, Envelopes, Methanogens.
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/evolutionary-biology-of-the-microbial-cell/