Lendert Gelens @lendertgelens.bsky.social Part-time physicist-turned-biologist studying early embryos and the cell cycle @KU Leuven, full-time dad to two active boys. Visualizing academic data trends in Flanders.
www.gelenslab.org | https://academic-compass.be/en/
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/
Erik van Nimwegen @erikvannimwegen.bsky.social Gene regulatory networks and genome evolution. How do single cells make up their minds?
@NimwegenLab@mstdn.science
@NimwegenLab on twitter. Sorry X.
Klebsiella Club @klebclub.bsky.social Official account of the Klebsiella Virtual Seminar Series #klebclub
Sunish Radhakrishnan @sunishk.bsky.social 
Raes Lab @raeslab.org Bioinformatics and (eco-)Systems Biology | VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology. @VIB @KU Leuven
https://raeslab.sites.vib.be/en
Joana Pereira @joanampereira.bsky.social Biochemist turned computational biologist and inner astronaut navigating the vastness of the protein universe using 💻. Group leader at @vibai.bsky.social and kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social🇧🇪 Previously in🇨🇭🇩🇪🇵🇹
🌌 https://pereiralab.sites.vib.be
Matthias Heinemann @matthiasheinemann.bsky.social Prof @ Uni Groningen, metabolism, systems biology, @HeinemannLab, www.heinemannlab.eu
Trying to make this world a better place
Sammy Pontrelli @sammy-pontrelli.bsky.social Assistant Professor and Group Leader
KU Leuven Biology, Division of Biotech of Plants and Microbes
VIB Center for Microbiology
Verstrepen Lab @verstrepenlab.bsky.social Yeast genetics, systems biology and translational fermentation (beer) research
@viblifesciences, @kuleuvenuniversity, @vibmicrobes
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Ronja Hulst @ronbaas.bsky.social PhD candidate at the evolutionary modelling Group at KU Leuven (@vandenberglab.bsky.social)
Kat Van der Poorten (キャット) @kathetgedacht.bsky.social FWO fellow @ KU Leuven studying the origin and evolution of human language
@vandenberglab.bsky.social
winner of the 2025 LAVA Scholarship for autistic researchers
pedagoog, bioloog en ervaringstaalkundige
Evolutionary modelling group (PI: Piet van den Berg) @vandenberglab.bsky.social At the evolutionary modelling group at KU Leuven (Belgium) we develop evolutionary models to understand how living organisms adapt, from antibiotic resistance to the evolution of human language.
website: www.pietervdberg.com
Audrey Proença @audreyproenca.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the Tenaillon-Matic Lab, Institut Cochin, studying bacterial aging and phenotypic heterogeneity
Kristina Jonas @krijonas.bsky.social
www.jonaslab.org
Steven Boeynaems @boeynaemssteven.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital. Houston, TX
Science: disorder, condensates, repeats, cell stress, neurodegeneration, drug discovery, synbio Non-science: art, fashion, cooking
www.boeynaemslab.org
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
Florian Wollweber @florianwollweber.bsky.social Imaging Asgard archaea and other strange organisms @embl.org Grenoble | 🦠❄️🔬#teamtomo
embl.org/wollweber
Joel Selkrig @jselkrig.bsky.social Updates from the Selkrig Lab. Exploring the function of secreted bacterial proteins in the context of infection and the gut microbiome.
www.ukaachen.de/kliniken-institute/institut-fuer-medizinische-mikrobiologie/forschung/ag-selkrig/
Jean-Marie Volland @vollandlab.bsky.social Our lab uncovers hidden microbial complexity and evolutionary innovations that challenge traditional views of bacterial life
https://www.vollandlab.com/
JacobsWagnerLab @jacobswagnerlab.bsky.social Research interests: Bacterial replication, antimicrobials, and Lyme disease. Stanford, HHMI.
@kc-huang.bsky.social @kc-huang.bsky.social 
Jie Xiao @jiexiaolab.bsky.social Single molecule biophysicist and microbiologist
Ophélie Remy @remyophe.bsky.social Loving 80s music, beers, and protein networks in small bacteria ;)
Postdoc in the Pinho Lab 🇵🇹 @pinholab.bsky.social
PhD in the Laloux Lab 🇧🇪 @lalouxlab.bsky.social #lalouxmni
C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social Scientist + Humanist + Pugilist.
"Tip your hat; pop the chain; short Joe Louis; then wipe his nose with the hook. It's that simple." (c) Brother Naazim Richardson
https://linktr.ee/chike98
David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social Bacterial Immunity and Synthetic Biology enthusiast. Head of Lab at Institut Pasteur. Co-Founder of Eligo Bioscience.
Trevor Lithgow @trevor-lithgow.bsky.social Keen on discoveries in bacterial cell biology and bacteriophages, working to impact AMR. Fan of the ocean. Opinions my own.
Masschelein Lab @masscheleinlab.bsky.social Engineering Microbes for Drug Discovery & Lead Optimization | Exploring the Biosynthetic Creativity of Microorganisms
@VIB @KU Leuven -- www.masscheleinlab.org
Rodrigues Lab @crodrigueslab.bsky.social Understanding how bacteria develop into one of the toughest cell types on Earth - Spores
Principal Investigator | Reader
www.rodrigueslab.com- B Sean Murray @bacterialorder.bsky.social Mathematical physicist turned theoretical/quantitative biologist. Interested in bacterial cell biology, self-organisation, chromosome dynamics...
Knut Drescher @knutdrescher.bsky.social I love science and discovering new things.
Jovana Kaljević ⬜️ @jovanakaljevic.bsky.social Senior scientist | Agrounik, Serbia
Postdoctoral scientist | JIC, UK
PhD | de Duve institute, Belgium
Passionate about killing bacteria and watching them die under the🔬
@dukasju.bsky.social @dukasju.bsky.social 
Reyes-Lamothe lab @reyes-lab.bsky.social We study DNA replication and genome integrity || live-cell single-molecule microscopy || Bacteria || Budding-yeast || mammalian cells
We are at the @biomcgill.bsky.social, @mcgill.ca
https://reyes-lamothe.lab.mcgill.ca
Andy Goodman @agoodmanct.bsky.social CNH Long Professor and Chair, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis
Director, Microbial Sciences Institute
Yale School of Medicine
Brochado Lab @brochadolab.bsky.social Microbe lover, Assistant professor @Uni_Tue @CoE_CMFI
working on system biology of bacteria & antibiotics.
@EMBL alumni, @Uni_WUE alumni
www.brochadolab.com
Goemans Lab @goemanslab.bsky.social In the drug-microbiota interaction lab, we want to better understand how antibiotics impact our gut microbiota 🧫
📍EPFL, Lausanne 🇨🇭
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/upgoemans/
Christoph Spahn @michriscopy.bsky.social Leader of the Nanoscale Bacteriology research group at the Rudolf Virchow Center @ JMU Würzburg. Revealing the inner life of #bacteria using #SuperResolutionMicroscopy.
WeberLab@McGill @weber-lab.bsky.social Associate Professor 🧑🔬🧑🏫 at McGill University 🇨🇦 CRC in Spatial organization of living systems 💧🦠🪱🔬
https://weberlab.ca/
Severin Ronneau @sronneau.bsky.social Microbiologist at Rennes 🇫🇷 Alumnus of UNamur 🇧🇪, Imperial College London 🇬🇧 and Harvard Medical School 🇺🇸 Passionate about Bacterial Stress Responses
Justine Collier @justinecollier.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Department of Fundamental Microbiology at the University of Lausanne. Also vice-Director of its School of Biology. Passionate about bacterial genetics!
Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social Padre, curieux, scientist; sourdough engineer; evolutionary cell and systems biology; some attempts at synthetic biology and biomedical research;
Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social professor at UCSF, engineer turned cell biologist, wants to know how cells solve geometry problems 
Lori L. Burrows @dr-lori-burrows.bsky.social Retired microbiologist, McMaster U 🇨🇦 • type IV pili, phages, biofilms, antibiotic resistance • equestrian🐴 • cancer survivor🎗️
Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social Co-founder & CSO @ArcadiaScience. Head of Open Science @AsteraInstitute. Immigrant. she/her
Still post frequently on X (@PracheeAC)
Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social Evolutionary cell biology @EMBL
evonuclab.org
Keren Lasker @kerenlasker.bsky.social Membraneless Organelles in Bacteria: Structure, Dynamics, Function, and Engineering. Assistant Professor @scripps.edu.
https://laskerlab.org/
Kathrin Fröhlich @microberna.bsky.social Principal Investigator @uni-jena.de | Bacterial RNA Biology
George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social Elmer R. Pfefferkorn, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at the Geisel School of Medicine, EiC of the Journal of Bacteriology; Bacterial Biofilms, Surface Sensing, c-di-GMP Signaling, Polymicrobial Communities & Gut Microbiota in Cystic Fibrosis
Helge Feddersen @drhelgon.bsky.social Microbiology, SMLM & other microscopy | Postdoc in Bramkamp Lab, CAU Kiel, Germany
Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social Experimental ecology and evolution | microbes | evolution of metabolic interactions | cooperation | bacterial multicellularity.
@thomasmbartlett.bsky.social @thomasmbartlett.bsky.social 
Courtney Ellison @ckellison.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia studying bacterial cell biology 🔬🧫🏳️🌈
Kevin Whitley @kevindwhitley.bsky.social Biophysicist. Lecturer at Biosciences Institute (Newcastle U) doing single-molecule microscopy in bacteria.
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
Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social Curiosity Driven Science
@heathmurraylab.bsky.social @heathmurraylab.bsky.social 
Alessio Fragasso @alessiofragasso.bsky.social Postdoc fellow in Jacobs-Wagner lab at Stanford University, former PhD in Cees Dekker lab at TU Delft | quantitative biology, antimicrobial peptides, innate immunity, biomimetic nanopores, synthetic biology
Charles Winterhalter @winterhalterlab.bsky.social Wellcome Early-Career Fellow investigating novel DNA damage repair mechanisms in bacteria at Newcastle university (UK)
Csaba Pal Laboratory @csabapallab.bsky.social Csaba Pal Lab's interest includes antibiotic resistance research, systems biology, and microbial experimental evolution. Account run by lab members.
Szeged, Hungary
http://group.szbk.u-szeged.hu/sysbiol/pal-csaba-lab-index.html
Djordje Bajić Lab @dbajic.bsky.social A community of researchers studying communities of microbes.
TU Delft, Department of Biotechnology
djbajic.github.io 
Steven Van Belleghem @svbelleghem.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist @KU_Leuven. #Adaptation #Plasticity #Speciation #Genomics #Beetles #Butterflies #Daphnia.
https://bio.kuleuven.be/eeb/sv/
CBCB Newcastle @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology at Newcastle University.
Understanding fundamental bacterial processes to aid medical and industrial applications.
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cbcb/
Jutras Lab @jutraslab.bsky.social Associate Professor studying the biology and pathogenesis of spirochetes (#Lymedisease #STI) @NorthwesternU @NUFeinbergMed. Opinions=me. 🇨🇦/🇺🇸 #Microsky
KU Leuven Plant Institute (LPI) @kuleuvenplantinst.bsky.social Growing Knowledge for the Future
The LPI unites all plant research
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
.
#PlantSci #biodiversity #SustainableFoodSystems #GreenSpace
Vera van Noort @veravannoort.bsky.social Professor Computational Biology at KU Leuven and Leiden University
Proteins, Peptides, PTMs, microbes, phages, enzymes
Osman Lab @osman-lab.bsky.social Studying the mysteries that surround the genome of the cell's powerhouse
https://www.osman-lab.de
WanassaB @wanassab.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow Bernhardt Lab| studying cell wall biogenesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum |
Henri Voedts @hvoedts.bsky.social Postdoctoral scientist in the Collet Lab in Brussels.
EMBO fellow. Bacterial cell envelope. Antibiotics. PhD from the
Arthur lab in Paris. 🧫🧬💊
Tom Coenye @tcoenye.bsky.social Leading the LPM research group at Ghent university (Belgium). Fascinated by biofilms and Burkholderia. Co-editor in chief of the journal 'Biofilm'. Always looking for new challenges.
Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social Nematode antagonist
Jan Michiels lab @michielslab.bsky.social Part of the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and the KU Leuven Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, we study bacterial survival under stress conditions.
Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social Professor @KULeuven - evolutionary biology, theoretical biology & biostatistics (#Rstats). Social insects & microorganisms. Social evolution, self organisation, chemical ecology, statistical machine learning. https://bio.kuleuven.be/eeb/tw/research
Matt Herdman @mherdman.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in the Govers Lab, KU Leuven, working on cell cycle progression in Bacteroides. Former DPhil student, Dunn School, University of Oxford.
Pedro M. Pereira (MicrobeMatos) @microbematos.bsky.social IMIB team leader (https://imiblab.com/), Microscopist, Biologist, Microbiologist interested in host-microbe interaction and super-resolution at ITQB NOVA (https://www.itqb.unl.pt/)
Yvann Bourigault @yvannbglt.bsky.social Associate Professor at LBCM, Universite Bretagne Sud• PhD in Microbiology • former CBSA Lab and LalouxLab
Working on biofilms, bacterial interactions, biocontrol and predatory bacteria
Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist (Multicellularity & social evolution). Prof. at Georgia Tech & Director of the QBioS PhD program.
https://ratclifflab.biosci.gatech.edu/
Jaana Mannik @jaanamannik.bsky.social Cell & molecular biologist. Biophysics research @Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville.
volweb.utk.edu/~jmannik/
Unraveling the self-assembly process of cell division machinery in E. coli.
Hallez Lab @hallezlab.bsky.social @frsFNRS Senior Research Associate @UNamur interested in Bacterial Cell cycle #caulobacter and Stress Response #StringentResponse #alarmone #ppGpp
Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD @junlab.bsky.social We study quantitative microbial cell physiology.
https://jun.ucsd.edu
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
-African Proverb
Pilhofer Lab 🦠❄️🔬 @pilhoferlab.bsky.social Microbial cell-cell interactions | contractile injection systems | cytoskeleton | evolution | multiscale imaging | ETH Zürich
- run by lab members -
Tanmay Bharat @tbharat-lab.bsky.social MRC-LMB #cryoET #biofilms #S-layers #antibiotics
https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/bharat/
@arielamir.bsky.social @arielamir.bsky.social 
Jaan Mannik @jaanmannik.bsky.social Professor of biophysics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Studying self-organizing processes in bacterial cells and their cell cycle.
volweb.utk.edu/~jmannik/
Takacs Lab @takacslab.bsky.social Takacs Laboratory of Spirochete and Vector Biology @Northeastern University. 
Arcadia Science @arcadiascience.com Research and development company leveraging the biology of diverse organisms. Read about our science: http://research.arcadiascience.com
AI-driven Optical Biology Lab @aiopticalbiolab.bsky.social Research group lead by @henriqueslab.bsky.social at @itqbnova.bsky.social
Combining #AI with #superresolutionimaging to push the boundaries of optical cell biology #SMLM #SRRF
Dedecker Lab @dedeckerlab.bsky.social We work on the development of “smart” fluorescent probes, improving fluorescence imaging, biosensors and image analysis software. Account managed by lab members. More on https://peterdedecker.be/.
Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez, PhD @lortzrodz.bsky.social Pioneer Postdoctoral Fellow at UM | Measuring Subcellular Interactions and Material State Impact on Bacterial Biomolecular Condensates Using Single-Molecule Methods in the Biteen Lab @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social
He/Him
@danapeer.bsky.social @danapeer.bsky.social 
Petra Levin @redrockcity.bsky.social Microbiologist, mom, runner w/delusions of completing a marathon. Dog enthusiast. This Week in Microbiology (https://www.microbe.tv/twim/).
Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social Building microscopes at #umich to measure chemistry, physics, and biology one #singlemolecule at a time (she/her)
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/biteen-lab/
Zach Hensel @zachhensel.bsky.social single-molecule microbiology lab @ ITQB NOVA in Portugal
https://zach-hensel.github.io/
Scott Saunders @saunderslab.bsky.social Assistant Professor, UGA Micro / 🧬 Bacterial genetics enthusiast 🧫 / Previously UTSW fellow & Caltech PhD (biofilms & redox) / Open & reproducible science (he/him) / saunderslab.org
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
Marie Delaby @mariedelaby.bsky.social Postdoc in Yves Brun’s lab, Université de Montréal.
Exploring the molecular choreography of bacterial cell elongation.
Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com We study cell polarity and cytokinesis in the fission yeast model system with emphasis on GTPase signaling patterns @BostonCollege. Immigrant. She/her. www.daslabpombe.com
Basile Beaud Benyahia @babebe.bsky.social Microbiologist in Simonetta Gribaldo’s lab at Institut Pasteur. Love membranes, evolution and bacteria that never want to grow the way i want them to 🥲✨🔮