- S Sylvie Estrela @sylvieestrela.bsky.social Ecology and evolution of microbial communities, mutualism, and symbiosis.
José Aguilar-Rodríguez @jaguilarrod.bsky.social Evolutionary systems/cell biologist. EMBO and SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow with Dmitri Petrov and Dan Jarosz at Stanford. PhD with Andreas Wagner at the University of Zurich. Studying how molecular and cellular systems shape, and are shaped by, evolution.
Queer as Fact @queerasfact.bsky.social Queer history podcast with over 150 episodes presenting stories from around the world and throughout time.
https://www.queerasfact.com/
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever good pods are found.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Alessia Del Panta @adelpanta.bsky.social PhD student in Microbial Ecology
University of Lausanne
with Sara Mitri and Simon van Vliet
Interactions <--> Spatial structure
Simulations & Experiments
alex jaffe @alexjaf.bsky.social marine microbial ecology + wastewater | stanford postdoc | he/him/his
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/
Tobias Engl @tcsengl.bsky.social Evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, symbiosis, 🐞🐝🦠🏳️🌈
@MPI_CE
Tyler J. Carrier @tylerjcarrier.bsky.social Developmental and evolutionary ecologist studying marine invertebrates and their symbionts.
Isabella Tomanek @bellatom.bsky.social (Micro)biologist🦠| μm + generations |
postdoc @univie.ac.at, previously @dunnschool.bsky.social, Oxford | Mama^2 | Life enthusiast | fan of duplications + deletions
bacterial ecology 🔄 evolution in the gut (and elsewhere)
Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social Evolution. He/him/his. Views not my own. 🐵🦄🏳️🌈👨🔬🍜
Joao V. Rodrigues @jrodrigues.bsky.social Biochemist. Scientist at Generate Biomedicines. Shakhnovich lab@Harvard postdoc alumnus. Interested in enzymes, experimental evolution, cell-free protein synthesis, automation.
Joan Strassmann @joanstrassmann.bsky.social Wrote Slow Birding; Evolutionary biologist at Wash U in St. Louis, social behavior and evolution, wasps and microbes, love social amoebae, Lake Michigan
Vicki Orr @vickiorr.bsky.social Postdoc with Jamie Hall at University of Liverpool, focussing on mobile genetic elements and gene spread in microbial communities! 🦠🧫🧬💻
Mark Gresnigt @markgresnigt.bsky.social Junior group leader of @aps-hki.bsky.social at the Leibniz-HKI in Jena, interested in protective immunity against fungal infections and fungal immune evasion.
🇳🇱 in 🇩🇪, cycling 🚴🏼♂️ addicted.
Alejandro Rodríguez-Gijón @alejandrorgijon.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at the @mncn_csic | Environmental microbiologist 🦠🧬 | #FirstGen | He/Him/Él 🏳️🌈
https://alejandrorgijon.github.io/
Peter Laurin @peterlaurin.bsky.social PhD Student at UCLA studying the genetics and evolution of bacteria in the gut microbiome.
peterlaurin.github.io
Dr. Caitlin Pepperell @csp.bsky.social Evolutionary genomicist, fan of bacteria, infectious diseases physician
Nils Rädecker @radecker.bsky.social Microbial ecologist studying the evolution and breakdown of photosymbiosis. Imaging all things small 🔬and big 📸 alike. Just joined @HIFMB, Germany.
🪸 🔬 🧫
Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Keeling Lab @ UBC studying marine protistan symbionts. Previously: del Campo Lab & Coral Reef Futures Lab 🐠🪸🌊🧬 He/Him 🏳️🌈
Website: https://abonacolta.github.io/
Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social Group leader at @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social (@csic.es - @upf.edu) & Adjunct at @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social. Microbial Ecology & Evolution 🔬🌍🧫🧬 🪸 @pr2-database.bsky.social Coordinator #corals #symbiosis #protists
Aina Martinez i Zurita @azurita.bsky.social PhD Student at UCLA, working with Prof. Garud and Prof. Lohmueller • Microbiomes, Evolution and story telling • Previously at MIT & Broad Institute • Catalana a l'estranger • she/her
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.
Michelle Leger @freejakoba.bsky.social Eukaryotic evolution, protist diversity, mitochondrial evolution
At OIST, Japan with @filiphusnik.bsky.social; formerly at IBE, Barcelona with @multicellgenome.bsky.social and Dalhousie University with @andrewjroger.bsky.social
🏳️🌈She/her. Views my own
Sergio Muñoz-Gómez @sergiophyceae.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Purdue University | Evolution of Cells, Symbionts, & Organelles | ecsolab.com
Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) 🇯🇵 previously 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇿
evolution | cell biology | symbiosis | genomics | microbiology | marine science
https://www.oist.jp/research/research-units/ecbsu/
Sophie Abby @soabby.bsky.social Researcher at CNRS, TIMC lab, Grenoble France
compBio@TrEE group https://tree-timc.github.io/compbio
Archaea & Bacteria Evolution
Comparative genomics and Phylogenomics
Evolution of Cellular machineries & Metabolic pathways
https://sophieabby.github.io
Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social Interested in Structural Biology, deep learning, NextFlow, HPC, viruses, missense mutations archaea, bacteria, evolution & random quirks of nature. (Protein Cosmos feed 🧶🧬) Leads a research group & Structural biology Facility,UNSW Sydney. Opinions my own.
Gerben de Zwaan @gerbenz.bsky.social PhD candidate at Microbial Evolution/Ettema lab @ the Laboratory of Microbiology - Wageningen University and Research.
Enthusiastic about Evolution, Microbiology, Microscopy. www.gerbendezwaan.eu/
Lionel Guy @lionelguy.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist. Host adaptation, endosymbionts, Legionella. Associate prof at Uppsala University.
https://www.uu.se/en/department/medical-biochemistry-and-microbiology/research/guy-lionel
Florent Waltz @florentwaltz.bsky.social SNSF Ambizione Project Leader
Looking at tiny frozen mitochondria with big microscopes 🔬 cryoEM/cryoET
Green organisms 🌿 & evolution 🦠
Biozentrum, hosted in the Engel Lab, CH
🇫🇷 -> 🇩🇪 -> 🇨🇭
Website: https://www.waltzresearch.com/
Koenraad Van Doorslaer @kvd.bsky.social Assoc. professor at @uazresearch and @uazBIO5. We study the #evolution of #viral #cancer and #oncogenes. co-leader cancer biology program @uazcancer
James Hemp @cyan0bacteria.bsky.social Scientist: Neuroimmune axis, mucosal immunology, microbial ecology and evolution, geobiology.
Anti-fascist: Apparently I live in a country where that has to be explicitly stated.
Courtney Stairs @cstairs.bsky.social Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University || Anaerobes, mitochondria, evolution || #ERC_stg #tango2uppsala www.thelabupstairs.online
Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social Exploring the great microbial eukaryote diversity and evolution, one protist at a time. I’m fascinated by this question: how have #plastids evolved? #ProtistsOnSky | Associate Prof at Uppsala University. My lab: https://www.burki-lab.net/
Javier DelaFuente @javierdelafuente.bsky.social Microbiology and evolution of antibiotic resistance.
Multi-Defence @multidefence.bsky.social Unravelling the genetic dance of MGEs and bacterial immunity 🧩|Embracing the diversity of research techniques| #BBSRC_sLOLA #Bioinfo #Evol #Biochem #Mathmodel
https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/multidefence/
Matthew Kelbrick @kelbrick.bsky.social Post-Doc at The University of Liverpool. I specialise in microbiology, genetics, evolution, and biotechnology.
Olav Aga @olavaga.bsky.social Infomatician and medical student at University of Bergen. Researching the evolution of antimicrobial resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae. He/him
Désirée A. Schmitz @microbedesi.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow @HarvardMedicalSchool | Microbiologist | Fascinated by host-pathogen interactions & persister cells
Nastia Lyulina @alyulina.github.io PhD student w/ Benjamin Good and Dmitri Petrov at Stanford University interested in evolutionary dynamics & somatic evolution
alyulina.github.io
Fatima Aysha Hussain @fatiaysh.bsky.social Assistant Professor Tufts University
Phage-driven evolution of the Vaginal Microbiome
Alita Burmeister @aburmeister.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW Milwaukee | Molecular Microbiology and Evolution Lab | Microbes, Mentorship, and More | she/hers 
Cecilia Noecker @cecilianoecker.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Minnesota State Mankato (she/her). Interested in microbial ecology and evolution, metabolism, genomics, computational biology, equitable education, & more. Views my own. noeckerlab.github.io- G Gerda Saxer @gerdasaxer.bsky.social Evolutionary biologists. I work on microbes for industrial applications.
Audald Lloret-Villas @audald.bsky.social Postdoc - computational, evolutionary and conservation genomics @ the Globe Institute (University of Copenhagen) - 🦜👨🏻💻🧬
One lives only to make blunders.
Suegene Noh @suegenenoh.bsky.social Evolutionary Biology and Genomics at Colby College; We work with social amoebas and currently study amoeba-bacteria symbiosis
Tapan Goel @tgoel.bsky.social Postdoc in the @weitz_group at UMD College Park. Working on eco-evolutionary models of phages and their hosts. UCSD Physics PhD. he/his
Luciana Santoferrara @lusantof.bsky.social Microbiology | Associate Professor @HofstraU
Ecology and Evolution of Ciliates and other Microbial Plankton
James Ferrare @jferrare.bsky.social PhD student in the Good Lab @ Stanford Biophysics
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
Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection @cmdi.bsky.social Our team of researchers at GeorgiaTech investigate mechanisms and consequences of microbial community dynamics both in the environment and during infection. https://sites.gatech.edu/cmdi/
Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social The other “Susie” Wiles AKA NZ’s “COVID lady/Pink Terror”. Microbiologist & science communicator, lover of bioluminescence & Lego. Becoming slightly obsessed with reusable period products despite being perimenopausal. She/her.
Bob Kuhn @kuhnbobio.bsky.social High school biotech teacher at Innovation Academy HS Interested in Wolbachia, arthropod/microbe symbiosis, and soil phages. Currently studying sex ratio distorters in A vulgare pullbugs in the US. https://sites.google.com/view/room223/classroom-research
Kate Lagerstrom @kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social Postdoc at Princeton 🐅
🧫 microbiomes | 🧬 genomics | 🦠 pathogens | 💊 AMR | 👣 human impacts | 🌎 OneHealth
Trustee for AMI http://appliedmicrobiology.org
Member @microbiomevif.bsky.social
Opinions = my own
UNL & Stanford 🎓
💻 http://kate-lagerstrom.github.io
Alecia Rokes @aleciarokes.bsky.social PhD candidate in Vaughn Cooper's Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. she/her
Irene Newton @chicascientifica.bsky.social Professor at Indiana University, Department of Biology. Interested in all things microbial symbiosis related & these days, a lot of MGEs
Elze Hesse @elzehesse.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow based at the University of Exeter, interested in understanding the ecology and evolution of public goods, cooperation and plant-microbe interactions in metal- polluted soils
ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social The International Society for Evolutionary Protistology Serves People with Interests in the Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Cell Biology, and Evolution of Protists. https://www.isep-protists.com/ Account managed by @animalculum.bsky.social
Jeffrey Townsend @jeffreytownsend.bsky.social Elihu Professor of Biostatistics @yalesph.bsky.social--Evolutionary biology of cancer, infectious disease, and fungi; sometimes running.
Kelley Gallagher @kelleygallagher.bsky.social Microbiologist researching bacterial development and evolution
She/her
https://gallagherlab.org/
Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social #NewPI interested in #immune #evolution, host #pathogen interactions, and #ScientificPublishing @ University of Exeter, UK. He/him. 🇨🇦
Claudio Slamovits 🇦🇷🇨🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @cslamo.bsky.social Biologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Researcher of genomes and evolution. Salido de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. 🇦🇷🇨🇦
Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social Evolutionary & population biology of vector-borne viral disease systems. 🦟 genetics PhD candidate in NC.
Arbovirologist, orthobunyavirus wonk, feral reference librarian, & public health advocate. 80s mosquito. Coaster-sized earrings. (she/her) 🏳️🌈
Biophysical Paris @parisseminar.bsky.social Thread reporting the #seminar of #biophysics and quantitative biology #qBio available in #Paris
Managed by http://maximeardre.eu
Lukas VF Novak @animalculum.bsky.social Postdoc in evolution of microbes. I study protists losing mitochondria, algae stealing plastids, and bacteria living on nothing but sulfur. IUEM, Plouzané, BZH, FR. https://lukasnovak.eu/ https://scholar.social/@animalculum he/him
ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social Computational Evolutionary Biologist. Focusing on deep nodes in the tree of life. University of Barcelona
https://linktr.ee/err_moody
Anamarija Butkovic @anamarijabutkovic.bsky.social Evolutionary virologist || Post-doc in Institut Pasteur || https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1435-0912
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
Edson Delatorre @edsondelatorre.bsky.social Father of three (👧👧🐶), professor of Virology @ufesoficial.bsky.social and scientist focused on viral eco-epidemiology, diversity, and evolution. He/him. PI @lagev-ufes.bsky.social
Jana Huisman @jhuisman.bsky.social HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT | Mobile genetic elements and microbial communities
James Gurney @jamesgurney.bsky.social Assistant professor working on phage. Occasional writer/fact checker for kurzgesagt. I didn’t write dinotopia.
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/
Migle Gabrielaite @mgabrielaite.bsky.social Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Postdoc at Vilnius University 🇱🇹 | Previously Rigshospitalet & University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰 | Bioinformatician 🧑💻 | Exploring bacterial evolution & transmission 🦠 | Toddler mom 🧒
Renee Geck @reneegeck.bsky.social Asst Prof of Biology at Gonzaga University. Pharmacogenomics, yeast genetics and evolution, STEM education. UW Genome Sci and Harvard BBS alum.
Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social Theoretical physicist at UCSD researching condensed & living matter, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics.
Bad at staying in my lane. Interested in everything.
https://guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/
Byron J. Smith @byronjsmith.bsky.social Microbial Ecologist / Bioinformatician, Postdoc in the Pollard Lab, Gladstone Institutes. PhD from University of Michigan
Grant Kinsler @grantkinsler.bsky.social Postdoc at UPenn thinking about mutations, cells, and evolution.
Dvir Schirman @dvirschirman.bsky.social @EMBOFellows postdoc in @johan_elf_ lab, @UU_University.
Chromosome organization in bacteria. Combining microscopy and large synthetic libraries to study genotype-to-phenotype.
alumnus of @TPilpel lab
Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social New Assistant Professor of Biology at University of Maryland • Passionate about algae / protists + HGT + genomics + evolutionary biology + microscopy • vanettenlab.org #NewPI
Opinions are my own.- N @nicvega.bsky.social @nicvega.bsky.social
Richard Lindsay @richardlindsay.bsky.social Research Fellow at the University of Exeter working on microbial ecology and evolution. Investigating the evolution of cooperation, virulence, metabolism and antimicrobial resistance
Alexander Tendu @atendu.bsky.social Emerging viruses, Virus Characterization, Arboviruses.
@upcite.bsky.social
Taoran Fu @taoranfu.bsky.social Eco-evo | Postdoc in Brockhurst group at University of Manchester
Microbiology | Pseudomonas | Quorum-sensing and defense system
Jon Mifsud @jonathonmifsud.bsky.social Postdoc @ KU Leuven | Virus evolution 🧬👨💻
Jemma Geoghegan @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social Professor at University of Otago, NZ; Webster Chair in Virology; Rutherford Discovery Fellow. I like viruses and evolution. 
K.D. Murray @kdm9.bsky.social A scientist, mostly
Naarm/Melbourne, AU & Tübingen, DE
Elisabeth Altrogge @elisabethaltrogge.bsky.social Formerly Elisabeth Richardson. Assistant professor at Mount Royal University. Microbial ecology and evolution in environments affected by hydrocarbons (which is all of them)
Janani Hariharan @jananiharan.bsky.social Bacterial biogeography and community assembly, evolution + natural history. Strong opinions on data analysis and science communication. Cats, books, hiking, mental health, existential crises. she/they. த/हि
Chantal Vogels @chantalvogels.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Yale School of Public Health | Medical Entomology 🦟 | Arbovirology 🦠 | Genomics 🧬 | 🇳🇱 |
www.vogelslab.com
Salvador Almagro-Moreno @bioetry.bsky.social Emergence and evolution of bacterial pathogens
Complexity in biological systems
Dept. of Host-Microbe Interactions
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
NSF CAREER. BWF PATH
Lisa Klasson @lisaklas.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University: Genomics, Evolution, Symbiosis, Wolbachia
Filza Masood @filza-masood.bsky.social RA in Respiratory Immunology 🫁
MSc Microbial Evolution & Ecology 🦠
BA (Hons) Microbiology 🧫
Trinity College Dublin
Currently looking for PhD roles (2026 start)
Eduardo Rodríguez-Román @erodriguezroman.bsky.social Biologist|Human(-ist). Virus-host systems. Origins.
https://linktr.ee/erodriguezroman
Jacob Palmer @jdpal.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Binghamton University (SUNY)
Broadly interested in microbial ecology and evolution, bacterial warfare, synthetic biology, microbiomes, bacteriophage, and antibiotic resistance.
https://palmerlab-binghamton.com
Ricardo León-Sampedro @rleonsampedro.bsky.social | Microbial ecology & evolution
| Plasmids, genetic invasion, and antimicrobial resistance
| IPLA-CSIC
| RicardoLeonSampedro.com
Katrin Hammerschmidt @khammerschmidt.bsky.social Evolution, Microbiology, Multicellularity, Division of Labour, Major Transitions in Evolution, Life Cycles, Symbiosis
Kiel University
Alicia Calvo-Villamañán @aliciapcv.bsky.social | CRISPR, Plasmid Biology, Bacterial EcoEvo & AMR | Sci-Illustrator |
Postdoc at the Evolutionary Biology lab (Gordo lab), Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine @gimminstitute.bsky.social
| She/Her | From 🇪🇸&🇵🇹 | 💜🍉
Harshali Chaudhari @harshalichaudhari.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at Wageningen University and Research |
PhD @IIT Bombay, India
Mathematical modeling | Phage biology | Ecology and evolution