W. Florian Fricke @wffricke.bsky.social Human Microbiome Research
Bahtiyar Yilmaz @bahtiyil.bsky.social Group Leader @University of Bern
Associate Editor in Frontiers for Young Minds
Gut microbiota researcher
Microbiome @microbiomej.bsky.social A family of open access journals that seek to unite investigators conducting microbiome research in environmental, agricultural, and biomedical arenas🦠
mrreditorialoffice.bsky.social @mrreditorialoffice.bsky.social About Microbiome Research Reports
Focusing on the human/animal microbiome.
Peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal
Indexed in ESCI, Scopus, PubMed Central, CAS, and Lens.
First IF: 3.8 (Microbiology Q2); Estimated 2025 IF: 5.5 (Q1)
CiteScore 2025: 6.6
@nayeimkhan.bsky.social @nayeimkhan.bsky.social Microbiome | Computational metagenomics | Bioinformatics | Gut Microbiome and Human Health interplay enthusiast
Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com Nature Microbiology publishes the latest research and commentary in all areas of microbiology.
https://www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/
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/
Oxford Centre for Microbiome Studies @oxmicrobiome.bsky.social Driving microbiome insights. Original research and supporting collaborations.
https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/ocms
https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxmicrobiome
University of Oxford
Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social My lab studies wildlife microbiomes and diet at Uppsala University, Sweden.
SciLifeLab Group Leader.
Previously at Brown University & Smithsonian.
Molecular Ecology, Evolution, Hologenomics, Conservation Biology.
she/her. https://www.videvall.com/
Mizrahi Lab @mizrahilab.bsky.social We are involved in understanding the ecological and evolutionary forces that shape microbial communities in nature.
Visit our website - lifewp.bgu.ac.il/wp/imizrahi/
Dmitry Sutormin @monochamussutor.bsky.social Scientist, molecular biologist and bioinformatician with a focus in microbiology
@ihmc2026seoul.bsky.social @ihmc2026seoul.bsky.social 
Trinobia @trinobia.bsky.social Data-driven Computational Bio-medical Solutions 🧬🔬💡🖥️
Bioinformatics • AI • Research • Training • Consulting
⚡ Data → Discovery → Impact
Jacques Izard @jacquesizard.bsky.social Oral and gastrointestinal #microbiome #metabolome studies. Topics include relationship to diet and wellness ( #IBD / #cancer / #ostomy/ #ShortBowel syndrome) views are my own.
SciFoodHealth @scifoodhealth.bsky.social News on food & health EU-research collaborations. These projects receive funding from the @horizoneu.bsky.social Research & Innovation Programmes. Managed by @eufic.bsky.social.
3rd Edition: Global Microbiome Congress & Exhibition 2027 @microbiomecongress.bsky.social Sciinov Group welcomes you to the Global Microbiome Congress & Exhibition 2027, taking place on May 11–12, 2027, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Balaji @bala-ji.bsky.social Senior Scientist of Coastal and Marine Ecology Division at GUIDE. Oceanography and Marine biologist.
Alejandro Castellanos @alejandrocs98.bsky.social Colombian 🇨🇴
PhD Researcher @raeslab.org • @vibmicrobes.bsky.social | @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social 🇧🇪
Chen Zhang | 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇳🇱 🇺🇸... @alex03-cz.bsky.social Microbiologist | Molecular Microbiology | Eco-physiology | Virology | Microbiome | Co-Evolution 4 Fit
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?hl=en&user=4cUcmfMAAAAJ
Christoph Thaiss @christophthaiss.bsky.social Exploring how the environment, brain & body interact to shape human health | Faculty at @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social & Core Investigator at @arcinstitute.org
http://www.thaisslab.com
Daan Speth @daanspeth.bsky.social Computational microbiologist. Senior scientist at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at.
Microbial ecology, mostly of nitrogen cycle microbes, and data driven physiology.
Maintainer of the GlobDB genome database https://globdb.org
Carolina Tropini (TropiniLab@UBC) @ctropini.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia studying the gut microbiota and abiotic environment in health and disease.
http://tropini.microbiology.ubc.ca
Haller Lab @hallerlab.bsky.social Research group of Prof. Dirk Haller, Chair of Nutrition and Immunology at TUM. We investigate how diet, immune responses, and the gut microbiome interact to drive inflammation, metabolic disorders, and intestinal diseases.
Christian Diener @cdiener.com Lifelong relationship with microbes, now studying them for a living. Assistant Professor at MedUni Graz. Opinions are my own. He/him 🦠+💻=❤️
More socials at cdiener.com. Lab website at dienerlab.com.
Margaret Alexander @margaretalexander.bsky.social Assistant Professor UW-Madison, Medical Microbiology and Immunology investigating the mechanisms of diet, microbiota, and immune interactions in autoimmunity
alexanderlab.mmi.wisc.edu
views are my own
Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social science reporter covering biomedical research at Nature | proudly Ukrainian 🇺🇦
maxkozlov.com
signal: mkozlov.01
Bärbel Stecher @baerboletta.bsky.social Microbiologist interested in gut microbiota-pathogen interaction. Professor at TU Munich, PhD ETH Zurich, studies at LMU Munich and University of Warwick, UK.
Dutch Government News @dutchgovnews.com The English version of openrijk.nl/en offers essential government reads for all non-Dutch speakers.
This is not an official government account!
https://openrijk.nl/en/missie
Build your own Dutch gov feed here:
https://www.openrijk.nl/en/my-openrijk
Scott C Anderson @scottcanderson.bsky.social Scientist and science writer. Author of The Psychobiotic Revolution with the brilliant scientists John Cryan and Ted Dinan. I write for Psychology Today and New Scientist. Find me at scottcanderson.substack.com
Morgan Okpara @morganokpara.bsky.social Microbiome Scientist interested in microbial metagenomics, symbiosis & microbiomes, bioinformatics
Mehrbod Estaki @mehrbodestaki.bsky.social CSO at Innovate Phytoceuticals. I science sometimes. Interested in all things #microbiome, #bioinformatics & data analysis.
Lars Bode @drlarsbode.bsky.social Professor of Pediatrics and Founding Director of the Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence (MOMI CORE) and the Human Milk Institute (HMI), all at UC San Diego.
Patrick Veiga @patrickveiga.bsky.social Scientific Director of Le French Gut, @INRAE, and for fun: Writer: Mission Microbiome, a microbiome thriller :-) Missionmicrobiome.com
Elin Org @elinorg.bsky.social Professor of Microbiomics at @tartumicrobiome.bsky.social of University of Tartu & Head of the Estonian Genome Centre
Tartu Microbiome @tartumicrobiome.bsky.social Research group of prof. @elinorg.bsky.social at Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Estonia | Website: https://genomics.ut.ee/en/research-group-microbiome
Sunil Mundra @sunilmundra.bsky.social Associate Professor, UAE University I Microbiologist | Microbial Genomics I soil-plant-microbial interactions I Mycorrhiza | AMR | Climate Change 
Devin Holman @devinholman.bsky.social Microbiologist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada working on antimicrobial resistance and microbiomes in food producing-animals.
Nicolas Nesi @nicolasnesi.eurosky.social Phylogenomics fruitbats 🦇 | Metatranscriptomics respiratory microbiome | Genomics bacteria 🦠
IR Inserm UMR 1311 DYNAMICURE Université Caen Normandie - CHU Caen
Kim-Anh Lê Cao @mixomics.org A team of creative, unconventional and computational statisticians who develop R mixOmics for the biological community. Omics and microbiome unraveller.
Jacob Schreiber @jmschreiber91.bsky.social Studying genomics, machine learning, and fruit. My code is like our genomes -- most of it is junk.
Assistant Professor UMass Chan
Previously IMP Vienna, Stanford Genetics, UW CSE.
Nico Claassens @nicoc-micsynmet.bsky.social Associate Professor Microbial Synthetic Metabolism
Wageningen University | Synthetic Biology | Sustainability | working at @mib-wur.bsky.social
http://wur.eu/micsynme
Johannes Bj{\"o}rk @awfuldodger.bsky.social Assistant professor | Systems ecologist studying gut microbiome-immune interactions in cancer immunotherapy and solid organ transplantation | Previously longitudinal gut microbiome dynamics in wild baboons and host-microbe interactions in marine sponges.
Detmer Sipkema @detmersipkema.bsky.social marine microbiologist @Wageningen University, evolution of symbiosis, sponges! aquaculture, marine natural products
Professor at the Laboratory of Microbiology
Find me in Wageningen, Groningen or below sea level
https://microbialifeaquatic.wordpress.com/
Karandeep Singh @kdpsingh.bsky.social Faculty at UC San Diego. #rstats. Creator of Tidier.jl #julialang. #GoBlue. Views own.
Naomi Iris van den Berg @naomiirisvdberg.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow Mathematical Oncology @crick.ac.uk. Former PhD @MRC_TU, Patil Group, Cambridge University and student
@WUR, @niooknaw, @Cornell, @UCUtrecht
Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social Microbial ecology and evolution | Professor at University of Lausanne | Theory | Experiments | Egyptian
Kiran R. Patil @kiranrpatil.bsky.social Professor of Molecular Systems Biology, University of Cambridge
Clemente lab @clemelab.bsky.social Mount Sinai | Microbiome | Genetics & Genomics | Immunology
Maryse Berkhout @maryseberkhout.bsky.social Microbes & glycans 🤩 | Gut Microbial Ecology | Wageningen University, NL | https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=PhNYBVUAAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=ao
Bernat Olle @bernatolle.bsky.social Founder and CEO at Vedanta Biosciences
Dan Portik @dportik.bsky.social Industry bioinformatics scientist. Long-read metagenomics & methylation, and previously phylogenomics & frog/lizard evolution.
🦠 🐸 🦎 🧬
Free time: climbing 🧗, curling 🥌, and plants 🪴🌵.
Somak 🥼💻✨️ @soilmicrobe.bsky.social Microbial Ecologist posting about #Microbiome research #SciComm, #OpenAccess, #ClimateChange, #Rstats, #dataviz & inclusive science | Personal views|He/him/his
Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social Professor of microbial ecology and evolution at Univ of Texas Austin.
Guus Roeselers @roeselers.bsky.social Head gut microbiome research @Unilever -opinions are my own-
Michael Fischbach @mfgrp.bsky.social Liu (Liao) Family Professor of Bioengineering, ChEM-H @Stanford.
Ruairi Robertson @ruairirobertson.bsky.social Lecturer in Microbiome Science, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London. Studying host-microbiome interactions in early life
🍏Nutritionist
🔬Scientist
🎙️Public speaker
Jan Claesen @claesengroup.bsky.social Associate Professor at Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic.
Lover of bacteria in isolation and in communities.
Dissecting the human microbiome on a molecular level.
🇧🇪🇺🇸 Father of two. Views are my own.
https://claesengroup.org/
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Christina Faherty @christinafaher1.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist 🧫 🦠 🧬 focusing on #Shigella, #enteric #pathogens & #phage. Using host signals & #organoids to study #pathogenesis. Assist Prof at USUHS. Views my own. https://medschool.usuhs.edu/profile/christina-faherty-phd
Jamie Hackett @jamiehackett.bsky.social Developmental (epi)genomics group at EMBL Rome
Non-genetic inheritance. Epigenetic editing. ERC investigator 🇮🇹🇬🇧🇮🇪
Shai Bel (The Mucus Man) @mucusman.bsky.social The Bel Lab, boldly going where no one else bothers to. Associate professor @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social. Opinions are my microbiota's.
Amee Manges @amanges.bsky.social Professor of Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia, School of Population and Public Health; profile photo is a sculpture by Guthrie Gloag called "Mourn" an American Mastodon.
Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social Innate immunity/host-pathogen interactions. Husband, father, former Soviet immigrant. Opinions my own.
Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social Distinguished Professor University of California Davis
Member, NAS, AAM, Leopoldina, AAAS
Views are my dog's
Jotham Suez (SuezLab@JHU) @suez.bsky.social Microbiome enthusiast 🦠 || Assistant Professor for Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Johns Hopkins University || He/Him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.suezlab.org
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
Elaine Hsiao @pipethero.bsky.social microbes, guts & brains at UCLA
www.hsiao.science
David Clarke @cleverflick.bsky.social Head of School of Microbiology at University College Cork. Likes bacteria (in general) and Man Utd. 
Conor Feehily @sligomicrobe.bsky.social Host-Microbiome Interaction | Vaginal Microbiome | Preterm Birth | Functional Genomics 
Justine Rudkin @scousemicrobe.bsky.social Principal Investigator at University of Glasgow.
Bacterial Virulence & Host-Pathogen Interaction.
Nasal Microbiome, Mucin, Staphylococcus aureus.
Editor at Access Microbiology.
Debby Bogaert @dbogaert.bsky.social Paediatric Infectious Diseases, physician scientist, respiratory and child health, early life, microbiome-host, Edinburgh (UK)/Utrecht (NL) she/her
Sabina Leanti La Rosa @sabinallarosa.bsky.social Associate Professor of Microbiology @UniNMBU, Norway. Fond of carb degradation by gut #microbiomes, #multiomics, #CAZymes,#prebiotics. Editorial Board Member @CommsBio. Italian 🇮🇹 via 🇺🇸 to 🇳🇴
David Riglar @driglar.bsky.social PI and Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow at Imperial College London and The Francis Crick Institute.
Simon McArthur @drsimonmcarthur.bsky.social Neuropharmacologist at Queen Mary, University of London, studying how diet, the gut/oral #microbiota and their products affect the #brain & #Alzheimer's disease (he/him) 🏳️🌈🇪🇺
Katrina Ray @heykatray.bsky.social Science, music, trashy TV & tap-dancing | Chief Ed - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology @natrevgastrohep.bsky.social | Opinions own | she/her/they | #LiverSky #gastrosky #gisky #MicroSky
Atin Sharma @atinsharma.bsky.social Editor at Nature Microbiology
All opinions are personal
🇩🇪🇸🇪🇮🇳
Chris Damman, MD 🍓 @gutbitesmd.bsky.social Gastroenterologist | UW Professor | Gates Foundation Alumnus | CMO & CSO | Scientific Advisory Board | Nutrition, Mitochondria & Gut Microbiome | gutbites.org
The Microbiota Vault @microbiotavault.bsky.social The Microbiota Vault is a global non-profit initiative to conserve long-term health for humanity.
https://www.microbiotavault.org/
Evangelos Giampazolias @giampazolias.bsky.social Group Leader, Cancer Immunosurveillance Lab
@cruk-mi.bsky.social.
Interested in how #HostMicrobiome interactions & #CellDeath dictate #CancerImmunity.
🔗 https://www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/Our-Research/Cancer-Immunosurveillance
Harris Wang @harriswang.bsky.social Chair and Professor of Dept. of Systems Biology | Columbia University | Synthetic Biology | Microbiome | Genome Engineering
http://wanglab.c2b2.columbia.edu
Manuela Raffatellu @manuelar.bsky.social From Sardinia to California - Professor at UCSD - Love microbes. Find me by the ocean or at my Pilates studio
Dr. Grace Deitzler @dna-heligrace.bsky.social Research Project Manager at the One Health Microbiome Center @ Penn State. Former Harvard postdoc. Professionally interested in microbial ecology, scicomm, artsci, and microbiomes. Personally interested in books, baking, painting, cats, and fungi.
Justine Debelius @jwoodelius.bsky.social Looking for stories in words and data and occasionally poop. Human gut microbiomes and weirdness.
The typos and opinions are my own and not that of my employer.
She/Her.
Current: JHU. Past: KI, UCSD, CU Boulder
Nick Ilott @nickilott.bsky.social Scientist studying microbiome-host interactions in primary sclerosing cholangitis at the University of Oxford.
#microbiome #scRNAseq #bioinformatics #metagenomics #metabolomics #transcriptomics
I also like drawing: https://www.instagram.com/ilottnick21
Kate Coldwell @katecoldwell.bsky.social Gut-liver axis in primary sclerosing cholangitis. 💩🦠🧪
PSC Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/6hLJsJT
@daphnejacksontr.bsky.social Research Fellow, Uni of Oxford
#researchreturner
Girlguiding volunteer
https://linktr.ee/KateColdwell
Daniel Podlesny @podlesny.bsky.social Postdoc @BorkLab.bsky.social @embl.org. PhD @UniHohenheim.bsky.social. Microbiome, HGT, FMT, Strain-level Metagenomics
QMUL Microbiome Network @qmul-microbiome.bsky.social A research network of academics and clinicians engaged in microbiome research in Queen Mary University of London, hosting seminars, symposia and brain-storming sessions
Paul Cotter @pauldcotter.bsky.social PhD Microbiology. Head of Food Bioscience at Teagasc. PI APC Microbiome Ireland, Food Health Ireland
Co-founder & Head of Microbiology, SeqBiome.
Field Chief Editor Frontiers in Microbiology. Runner (2.57 marathon, 1.19 half)
Glanmire GAA
Husband & dad
Rita Oliveira @aritaoliveira.bsky.social Postdoc @ Duchossois Family Institute @ UChicago Pamer Lab. PhD Alumni @ IGCiencia #gut #microbiome #consortia #diet #machinelearning #Klebsiella
Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social Assist. Prof., Clinician-Scientist,Dalhousie Dent. www.mhdlab.org Host-pathogen interactions enthusiast. Figuring out how our bodies talk to bugs (spoiler: they do!!), one molecule at a time. #newPI #womeninSTEM #microbiology #Immunology #Dentistry
Bernardo Cervantes @bernacularbio.bsky.social Cofounder and COO at Concerto Biosciences where we aim to redefine humanity’s relationship with microbes.
Microbial engineering, biotech entrepreneurship, and LBP drug development.
Ni de aquí ni de aya 🇺🇸🇲🇽 | Views my own.
Devika @deb420.bsky.social #Host-microbe #microbe-microbe interactions | Female reproductive tract #microbiome | #Phage biology | #Postdoc @Boston Children’s Hospital + @Harvard Medical School at www.srnlab.com
Alum @Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
Trenton Dailey-Chwalibóg @trenton.phd #Epidemiologist · #MultiOmics · #MNCH · #Microbiota · #EED · #HumanMilk · #UGent · #AFRICSanté · #BrusselsGriffons
@jazmezator.bsky.social @jazmezator.bsky.social 
Georg Aichinger @georgaichinger.bsky.social Toxicokinetics and Nutrition Toxicology group leader at ETH Zürich. Developing microbiome-competent pharmacokinetic models for personalized and population-specific bioactivity/toxicity assessment.
Emanuel Tenorio @97emax.bsky.social PhD Student @ Penninger Lab 🧪
Xianzhe Gong @xianzhegong.bsky.social 
Elsa Martín de Arribas @elsamdea.bsky.social Hi everyone! I am a PhD candidate from the North of Spain. Currently focusing on study of microbiome and its relationship with colorectal cancer. I am developing bioinformatics pipelines and ML models to predict the outcome of treatments in CRC patients. 🤗
Vincent THOMAS @vincethom2001.bsky.social Microbiota aficionado
Raes Lab @raeslab.org Bioinformatics and (eco-)Systems Biology | VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology. @VIB @KU Leuven
https://raeslab.sites.vib.be/en