European Conference on Computational Biology @eccb-europe.bsky.social The ECCB 25th edition will be hosted by the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, for the 1st time in Geneva, 31.08-04.09.2026.
Discover the latest advances in genomics, structural bioinformatics, systems biology, biodiversity & beyond!
www.eccb2026.org
Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org Microbiology Society: A world in which the science of #microbiology provides maximum benefit to society | microbiologysociety.org
lnk.bio/microbiosoc
Eirik Lågeide @eiriklag.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at MPI Tübingen 🇩🇪🇳🇴 - Plant biology, immunity, virology, evolution 🌱🧬 Plant immunogenomics group
Benjamin J. Buchfink @bbuchfink.bsky.social Independent scientist, Tübingen, Germany. Developer of the DIAMOND protein aligner. https://github.com/bbuchfink/diamond https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-j-buchfink-875692105
Milot Mirdita @milot.bsky.social Open source #bioinformatics at Sungkyunkwan University 🇰🇷 | former Steinegger Lab @ SNU, Söding Lab @ MPI-NAT | http://mstdn.science/@milotmirdita
MEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social A hub-based global conference on Microbial Ecology and Evolution.
August 3-5, 2026
Abstract submission and registration will be announced soon.
Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis
Work: phylogenomics & microbiomes; wildlife and aquatic microbiology; #openscience;
Other: #birds; baseball; T1D
Lab phylogenomics.me
Pics jonathaneisen.smugmug.com
Links linktr.ee/jonathaneisen
TED go.ted.com/6WPm
GreenRobust @greenrobust.de Cluster of Excellence "GreenRobust: Understanding Robustness of Plant Systems from Molecules to Ecosystems" research initiative led by the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Hohenheim.
Website: www.greenrobust.de
Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social @Utrecht University
https://www.uu.nl/en/research/plant-microbe-interactions 
Matt Olm @mattolm.bsky.social Assistant Professor at CU Boulder
Studying the human microbiome
https://www.colorado.edu/lab/olm/
Alfonso Valencia @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social Bioinformatics, Comp biol, cancer genomes, text mining, strucutral bioinfo. but also: Science publishing, science policy, genome & ethics, science & art
Ziv Spiegelman @zivirus.bsky.social Plant virologist, ARO, Volcani Institute, Israel. Plant-virus interaction, viral movement, resistance-breaking viruses
Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft @w-s-w.org Helping German universities to identify and attract pioneering curious minds from around the world
https://w-s-w.org
Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social Head of the School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @ Uni Birmingham. Proud Scot. Oversaw a few Covid PCR tests
Nandita Garud @nanditagarud.bsky.social Associate prof. at UCLA
https://garud.eeb.ucla.edu
Ricky Wolff @rwolff.bsky.social Ecology and evolution of the human gut microbiome in Nandita Garud's lab at UCLA
ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science" at University of Tübingen, Germany. Blog: https://www.machinelearningforscience.de/ 
Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social We are a joint partnership of University of Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. We aim at developing robust learning systems and societally responsible AI. https://tuebingen.ai/imprint
https://tuebingen.ai/privacy-policy#c1104
Cluster of Excellence CMFI @cmfi.bsky.social “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections” (CMFI) researchers from different disciplines elucidate the mechanisms of interaction between beneficial and harmful bacteria and the host.
– University of Tübingen, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Wangsheng Zhu @wangshengzhu.bsky.social Fusarium-maize interaction | Genetics of disease resistance in maize, CAU-Beijing, https://www.zhulab.work/. Former PostDoc in WeigelWorld, MPI_Bio
European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social Official profile of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) - an international academic society supporting the study of #evolution
https://eseb.org
Publisher of @jevbio.bsky.social
Co-publisher of @evolletters.bsky.social
Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com Publishing the best of biotech science and business. Find us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram. Part of @natureportfolio.nature.com.
Daniel Segrè @dsegre.bsky.social Between physics and biology - Metabolism, microbial ecosystems, origin of life
http://segrelab.bu.edu
Yishay Pinto @yishay.bsky.social Computational biologist. Studying genomes of phages and microbes.
https://sites.biu.ac.il/en/pinto-lab
AnniZLab: [🦠, 🧬 , ✨] @annizlab.bsky.social A microbiologist 🦠& bioinformatician 🧬 uncovering diverse microbial mechanisms via AI ✨. A rising assistant professor @NTU Singapore. With data in the cloud, the sky is the limit! Check out our lab website :) https://genomiverse.net/
Alvaro Sanchez @asanchezlab.bsky.social CSIC Professor and Principal Investigator of the Quantitative Biology group at IBFG in Salamanca. Previously at Yale EEB, CNB-CSIC. Our group works on building predictive models of biological teams. More information at www.sanchezlaboratory.weebly.com
Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social The Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics led by Nicola Segata
**We are hiring, get in touch if interested!**
http://segatalab.cibio.unitn.it/
Moderator @svetlanaup.bsky.social
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/
Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social 
Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social Hiring PhDs/Postdocs CGRLab.github.io | Assistant Professor, Data Science and AI division, Chalmers & University of Gothenburg| SciLifeLab | Formerly at JHU-Langmead, UNIL-Dessimoz, WUR
Yoav Voichek @plant-trx.bsky.social Evolution of transcriptional regulation 🌱 | Plant Science | PI @ Weizmann Institute of Science
MicroSOS @microsos.bsky.social Marie Curie Staff Exchanges Program (Nº 101130685), 2024-2028 🇪🇸 🇬🇷 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 🇹🇭
Official account (for updates about PMS2025 https://6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com)
Nadine Ziemert @nadineziemert.bsky.social Microbiology and bioinformatics professor in Tuebingen, Malinois lover, fan of secondary metabolites in bacteria, evolution, computational biology, yoga, search and rescue, and Pepper
Bram van Dijk 🏳️🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social Assistant professor at Utrecht University (Theoretical Biology). Simulating microbes, mobile elements, horizontal gene transfer, and whatever else happens on a grain of sand | 🏳️🌈 | he / they | thevirtuallaboratory.com
Yehu Moran @yehumoran.bsky.social Evolutionary and molecular biology seasoned with ecology
https://www.yehumoran.com/
Using mostly sea anemones and other cnidarians as my experimental model organisms. University Professor at HUJI and academic editor for EMBO Press. Opinions are my own.
Matt Agler @plantmicrobiosis.bsky.social Hybrid Scientist. PI & Teacher, Plant Microbiosis Lab @ FSU Jena Microbiology. Husband. Dad. Likes to nerd out on stuff. Probably tired.
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social 
bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social 
bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social 
bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social 
@pfeilmeier.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social 
Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social Researcher, evolution of drug resistance, modeling, population genetics, coding, no longer at SF State University, instead at the U of Montpellier.
Mom, Dutch, now immigrant in France.
Ora Hazak @hazaklab.bsky.social Plant Root Signaling Lab at the University of Münster (DE) https://www.uni-muenster.de/Biologie.IBBP/en/aghazak/news/index.html
Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy Posts mine alone, in English (mostly) & French. #Evolution #Bioinformatics #openaccess #EDI. Director of @dee_unil and group leader at @SIB. He/Him. PI of @bgeedb, of […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://ecoevo.social/@marcrr, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
J. Chris Pires @jchrispires.bsky.social Professor passionate about student success & team science #firstgen #Brassica enthusiast walking Dogs of the Plant World
#Agriculture #Food #HigherEd #EduSky #Agsky #SciComm & more
#Soil #Crop #Science ; opinions mine
Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social Plant biologist interested in stress recovery mechanisms. Postdoc @Ecker-lab @Salk and NIH/NIGMS K99 fellow. #DroughtStress #StressRecovery #PlantScience
K.D. Murray @kdm9.bsky.social A scientist, mostly
Naarm/Melbourne, AU & Tübingen, DE
EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social Posts about jobs, conferences, etc. from the Evolution Directory (EvolDir) mailing list https://evoldir.net, run by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social
Shanshan Wang @shanshanwang3.bsky.social Postdoc @Weigelworld at Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, studying plant immunity with various approaches
Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social I study evolution in fungi using genomics at UC Riverside. He/him.
Tongva, Cahuilla, Serrano lands
http://lab.stajich.org/
Dina Hochhauser @dinahoch.bsky.social PhD student @SorekLab @WeizmannScience studying phage-bacteria interactions 🦠, MGEs 🛒 & defence islands 🛡🏝
Dorothee Huchon @dorotheehuchon.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist - Prof of Zoology at Tel Aviv University
Phylogenomics - Myxozoa, Tunicates & Co.
Mother of four
Gemma C. Atkinson @gemmaatkinson.bsky.social Lecturer & group leader in Lund University. Computational microbiologist, mostly working on toxin-antitoxin systems, ribosomes and bacterial defence against phages. Director of the LU-Fold protein structure prediction infrastructure of LU.
Atkinson-lab.com
Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social Systems Microbiology @EMBL, combining high-throughput approaches & mechanism in bacteria, antibiotics, microbiome, infection, species diversity, cell envelope
https://www.embl.org/groups/typas/
Franz Baumdicker @fbaumdicker.bsky.social Mathematical and Computational Population Genetics
Microbial Evolution | Machine Learning in PopGen | CRISPR-Cas | Pangenomes | HGT
🦠 ➔ 🧬 ➔ 💻 ➔ 🤔
www.baumdickergroup.de
Anne Kupczok @annecmg.bsky.social Assistant professor at Wageningen University, interested in Comparative Microbial Genomics, Phage genomics, Evolution
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. 
Dan Graur @dgraur.bsky.social Cantankerous superannuated evolutionary biologist.
Detest hubris, pseudo-profound bullshit, bad science, & Open Access.
Art Lover.
Used to be a Democrat Before They Became Socialists (Been There Done That ... in Romania). Antizionism = Antisemitism.
Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social Professor of Genetic Medicine at the University of Chicago. Decoding the human microbiome. http://BlekhmanLab.org
Nancy Moran @nancy-moran.bsky.social Research biologist and lover of nature, mostly bacteria, insects and (lately) birds
DaganLab @daganlab.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiology research group, Kiel University, Germany
Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social 
Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social MBE publishes fresh insights into the patterns and processes that impact the evolution of life at molecular levels.
🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe
🏠 @official-smbe.bsky.social
🤝 @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
#evobio #molbio #science #biology #societyjournal
Ziheng Yang Lab @zihengyang.bsky.social Ziheng Yang's Lab at UCL (CLOE) | Computational Molecular Evolution
Website: http://abacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk/
BPP GitHub: https://github.com/bpp/
PAML GitHub: https://github.com/abacus-gene/paml
PAML discussion group: https://groups.google.com/g/pamlsoftware
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social SMBE fosters communication among molecular evolutionists and advances the field.
🔗 smbe.org
💬 smbe2026.org • sites.google.com/view/gene-cultureco-evolution
👥 @smbe-idea.bsky.social
📙 @molbioevol.bsky.social • @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
ace-gtdb.bsky.social @ace-gtdb.bsky.social Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB; https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org) is an initiative to establish a standardised microbial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny.
Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social Dad, Teacher, Artist, Gardener and Scientist.
Change is the only permanent thing in the world. This moment will pass. It has to.
Ps.
All I post is my personal opinion
Cecile Lorrain @ccilelorrain.bsky.social SNSF Ambizione Fellow | Junior PI in Plant Pathology @ ETH Zürich | Specializing in fungal genome architecture & TE-driven evolution
lorrainlab.owlstown.net
AmirAli Toghani @amiralito.bsky.social Biologist @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. Currently doing a PhD with @kamounlab.bsky.social
Curious about plant immune receptors, molecular evolution, and other stuff. 🌿💻 #evoMPMI
Find out more here:
amiralito.github.io
Tolga Bozkurt @tolgaboz.bsky.social Scientist @Imperial College, host-pathogen interactions, plant immunity, cell biology, autophagy, proteolysis, immune receptors. bozkurtlab.co.uk
Co-founder @ResurrectBio.bsky.social
Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social Junior Professor at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
Evolution of Plant Signaling Lab. EXC GreenRobust and TERRA.
Interested in plant molecular evolution, RKs, EvoMPMI, Marchantia 💚 and Trichoderma 🍄🟫
Markéta Vlková-Žlebková @mvlkova.bsky.social Postdoc focusing on natural selection, gene expression, perennial plant-pathogen coevolution || Former EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow || Born at 355ppm CO2 || @mvlkova@ecoevo.social || she/her
Plasmid Society @plasmidsociety.bsky.social 
Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org Evangelist for the study of evolution in action by everyone.
Pitt Prof | ASM President|EvolvingSTEM | biofilms | EvMed | genomics entrepreneur (@SeqCoast.bsky.social, @midauthorbio.bsky.social)| exercise addict ~ swim bike run
International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions @ismpmi.bsky.social Connect with leading researchers in the field of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, genetics, genomics, proteomics, and molecular ecology. https://www.ismpmi.org
Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social Macrobe qui aime les microbes
http://www.shapirolab.ca/
Pepe Flores @ppflrs.bsky.social Postdoc @ Plant-Microbe Interactions @MPIPZ.bsky.social
Evolution and Ecology of microbial communities.
Alexander Tyakht @atyakht.bsky.social Bioinformatics Group Leader - Department of Microbiome Science www.leylab.com - Max-Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen
Big data, tiny microbes, endless questions. Let’s dive in 🌀
Erica Dinatale @ericadinatale.bsky.social Doctoral researcher @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social and curious human being
De-coding brown algae 🍙
Jaruwatana (Sodai) Lotharukpong @sodail.bsky.social ꙩ ꙫ ө ꚛ ꙮ ༗ :: complex multicellularity in brown algae :: doctoral researcher :: max planck institute for biology :: tübingen
https://lotharukpongjs.github.io/
Cara Haney @carahaney.bsky.social Associate Professor. Pseudomonas-host interactions, the plant microbiome, how good microbes turn bad. Pitt BioSciences
Michael Borg @borglab.bsky.social 🇲🇹 🇬🇧 Exploring the weird and wonderful world of #redalgae www.borglab.org
Gautam Shirsekar @coevolution.bsky.social Plant pathologist | Genomics | Coevolution | Wild plant pathosystems | Weigelworld, Max Planck Institute for Biology | Asst. Prof. at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (EPP)| www.coevolutionlab.org
Wagner Fagundes @wagnercfagundes.bsky.social Postdoc @ MLU Halle - Langner's lab. Passionate about evolution in plant pathosystems | #beproud he/him
Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Group Leader at The Sainsbury Laboratory, studying plant-microbe interactions.
https://noborilab.org
Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social The award-winning online home and resource hub for the global plant science community. Powered by the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB).
Explore Plantae at https://plantae.org/.
Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Evolutionary Microbiology
@UniCologne & @CEPLAS_1, studying how fungi interact with plants and their environment. He/him. 💛🖤
Sarit Avrani @saritavrani.bsky.social Cyanophage and other phages, evolution and ecology, really excited of new genomes, University of Haifa, Israel. https://www.avranilab.haifa.ac.il/
Mike Blazanin @mikeblazanin.bsky.social Postdoc with @kayla-king.bsky.social and @sarperotto.bsky.social at UBC. Bacterial evolution with C. elegans, phages, and bacterial communities. Modeling and experimental evolution. Microbial and computational methods.
https://mikeblazanin.com/
Aline Cuénod @alinecuenod.bsky.social Postdoc at ETH Zürich
Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social Rapid evolutionary dynamics in viruses, cancer and bacteria. Assistant professor at UW Genome Sciences and Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at HHMI. federlab.github.io
Alita Burmeister @aburmeister.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW Milwaukee | Molecular Microbiology and Evolution Lab | Microbes, Mentorship, and More | she/hers 
Allison Lopatkin, PhD @ajlopatkin.bsky.social Assistant prof at University of Rochester engineering genetic communication in microbial populations. Mountain enthusiast, passionate teacher
Ashley Alexander @peachypotato.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher
University of Zurich
Kümmerli Lab
Microbiology, ecology, and evolution
Bernadeta Dadonaite @bdadonaite.bsky.social Associate Researcher @ Fred Hutch.
Bhaskar Kumawat @kumawatb.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Evolution/Complex Systems, University of Michigan | kumawatb.com
Caitlin Billiot, PhD @microcait.bsky.social Postdoc in the Peijun Ma Lab at St. Jude | UAB Microbiology PhD | LSU alum | Uma' seyah | Views are my own
Canan Karakoç @ckarakoc.bsky.social Research scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology. Eco-evo | Host-pathogen interactions | Antimicrobial resistance | Survival | Coexistence | Cystic fibrosis. Loves microbes and math. Self-taught illustrator. Frog enthusiast. Punk.
www.ckarakoc.com
Carolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social Microbiologist 🧫🧪 | Microbe-Microbe interactions in infection | Mom of 👧🏼👦🏼🐶| Asst. Professor at UTK | Views my own