Sternberg Lab @sternberglab.bsky.social News from the Sternberg lab at Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Alba Herrero del Valle @herrerodelvalle.bsky.social MSCA fellow in the @mdmlab.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur. Interested in the conservation of immune systems across domains of life. | Former postdoc University of Cambridge / MRC LMB | PhD at IECB, Bordeaux
@joanaseneca.bsky.social @joanaseneca.bsky.social 
joana gois valerio @joanalgv.bsky.social PhD candidate in microbial ecology - understanding how good bacteria make plants grow better
@envsysmicro.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
Lukas Helmlinger @helm-linger.bsky.social PhD Student at University of Vienna, working in endosymbiosis in dictyosteldis (aka social amoebae)
Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social Eukaryote growing prokaryotes so I can infect them with phages. 2024 BBSRC Fellow at the University of Warwick. Unapologetically leftist.
Kathryn Kauffman @k6logc.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Dept Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine
@UBuffalo | #phages marine2mouths oceans2oral seas2saliva | @MIT @WHOI alum | kauffmanlab.org
Ruizhe Pei｜裴锐哲 @r-pei.bsky.social #MSCA Postdoc of Bioprocess and Microbiology @dome-vienna.bsky.social. Wastewater engineer exploring bioreactors, imaging, and microbial ecology.
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
Landon Getz @landongetz.bsky.social PostDoc in The Maxwell Lab at the University of Toronto. PhD. | He/Him 🏳️🌈 Co-Founder of Pride in Microbiology | Saamis(Prairies) ➡️ Kjipuktuk(Halifax) ➡️ Tkaronto(Toronto).
Karen Maxwell @themaxwelllab.bsky.social Phage biologist focused on virus-host interactions and bacterial pathogenesis.
Bosco Gracia @boscogracia.bsky.social PhD candidate in Population Genetics.
Microbial ecologist.
Dania Randi @daniarandi.bsky.social (She/her)
dog-lover / bicycle-powered / knitter / foodie / microbiologist 
Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social Professor of Biology & Institute for Health Computing, U of Maryland; explores how viruses impact human & environmental health;
'Asymptomatic' (JHU Press - https://bit.ly/asymptomatic_book)
&
'Science Matters' (https://substack.com/@joshuasweitz)
Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social Evo-ecologist (Assoc Prof at UC Berkeley) studying interactions among phages, microbiomes, and plants. Skeets (own view) about science, teaching, social justice, and politics. (profile pic unedited photo by my six-year-old son)
Isabella Wagner 🧠🦠 @isabellacwagner.bsky.social Plasticity & memory • Gut-brain axis • Aging & dementia • Neuroimaging • Assistant Prof @univie.ac.at @cemess.bsky.social & Faculty of Psychology • Former @dondersinst.bsky.social @radboudumc.bsky.social • https://www.isabellawagner.com
Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' @microbesplanet.bsky.social 30+ scientists from 8 leading research institutions in Austria with one vision: unlock the microbiome's potential for planetary health. 🌍🧫🦠
Follow us for exciting updates on environmental🌳, medical 🩺, and methodological 🔬 microbiome research.
Florian Tesson @ftesson.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in @floravincent.bsky.social's lab at @embl.org
Formerly in @mdmlab.bsky.social
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/
Rasmus Kirkegaard @kirk3gaard.bsky.social Staff scientist having fun with DNA seq and bioinformatics at #AlbertsenLAB
Frederik Schulz @fmschu.bsky.social 
Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social passionate archaea-microbiologist, microbiome researcher, #womaninscience, prof for microbiology, balancing family and science (she/her).
David Berry @davidberry1.bsky.social Prof. at University of Vienna, Center
for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Division of Microbial Ecology
Benjamin Coltman @bcoltman.bsky.social Digging into the complexity of soil microbial communities
microbial ecology | synbio | microbiome
Postdoc @univie.ac.at @cemess.bsky.social @dome-vienna.bsky.social @microbesplanet.bsky.social
Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social Ecologist into fungi, forests, and global change. Assistant professor at University of Vienna 🇦🇹 Also into 🏋️♂️🏃♂️🌈🏄🌋👾
www.fungalecologylab.com
Terrestrial Ecosystem Reserach Group @ter-cemess.bsky.social TER@CeMESS - Terrestrial Ecosystem Reserach
at the Centre for Mircobiology and Environmental Systems Science
University of Vienna
https://ter.univie.ac.at/
Andreas Bergthaler @andreasbergthaler.bsky.social Scientist, Citizen & Dad. Views and typos are my own. #Virologist #Immunologist #ScienceCommunicator #Mentorfirst #Vienna 🇦🇹 🇪🇺 🌎
Anne Chevallereau @annechevallereau.bsky.social Group leader @CNRS, @MMSB (Lyon, France) studying how viruses interact and evolve with other MGE and with their host #bacterial_immunity #sociovirology #phages #Pseudomonas.
Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com Nature Microbiology publishes the latest research and commentary in all areas of microbiology.
https://www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org Explore groundbreaking news and research from PNAS, one of the world's most-cited scientific journals. Discover its sibling journal, @pnasnexus.org, both official research journals of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Visit www.pnas.org for more info.
Melanie Blokesch @mblokesch.bsky.social Professor of Life Sciences @EPFL_en. Passionate about science 🤩 Views are my own.
Alexandre Almeida @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social MRC Career Development Award fellow at the University of Cambridge | Group Leader of the Microbiome Function and Diversity lab (https://microfundiv-lab.github.io) | Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Metagenomics, Functional modelling, Human microbiome
Julia Krasenbrink @julkras.bsky.social 
Center for Phage Technology @phagetechnology.bsky.social Located at Texas A&M University. Devoted to the study of bacteriophages for human health and agriculture. Home of the CPT Galaxy/Apollo phage annotation system. Cpt.tamu.edu 
Phage papers @phagepapers.bsky.social Bsky bot that delivers new phage related papers and news! Tweets are not endorsements! Started by
@jamesgurney.bsky.social and saved by @yawnxyz.bsky.social
Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social Professor at UArizona interested in genome rummaging, microbial evolution, and occasional tales about having backyard farm animals.
“I’m something of a scientist myself”
Baltrus(at)Arizona.edu
Dor Salomon @drdorsalomon.bsky.social Professor, Tel Aviv University.
Bacterial toxins and secretion, T6SS, MGEs, syn bio, host-microbe interactions, anti-phage defense.
Model systems: Vibrio, Aeromonas, Pantoea.
ISM board member.
https://www.dorsalomonlab.sites.tau.ac.il/
RevathyKrishnamurthy @revathykri.bsky.social Phage biologist| Research Scientist| Mother of two curious minds | Views my own & repost are not endorsements.
Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social We develop new ways to “see” and understand viruses in the laboratory and in nature.
Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social Group Leader @ Quadram Institute. Phages, viromes and taxonomy with a side of gaming and yarn arts. EDI & Athena Swan lead. Ally.
Avigail Stokar-Avihail @aavihail.bsky.social HFSP postdoctoral fellow @TypasLab @EMBLHeidelberg | Alumnus of @SorekLab @WeizmannScience. Interested in microbial interactions and warfare, microbial genomics & phages 🦠🧬👩🏽🔬
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
Paul Turner Lab @paulturnerlab.bsky.social Experimental evolution of viruses for basic science and evolutionary medicine at Yale Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Tweeting papers & news from our group. Acct managed by lab members.
Libusha Kelly @microbegrrl.bsky.social Microbiome, drugs, phages, ecology, AI, the Bronx
Knut Drescher @knutdrescher.bsky.social I love science and discovering new things.
Jens Hör @jenshoer.bsky.social Molecular Principles of RNA Phages | Junior Professor @uni-wuerzburg.de | Group Leader @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social
Meaghan Castledine @mcastd.bsky.social NERC IRF 🦠 all things PHAGE and microbial communities 🧫🔬 I also have a dog and enjoy nerdy things 🧝🏻♀️
Sarah Svensson @campy-bara.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de Formerly at the Shanghai Institute Formerly known as Pasteur. Vibrio, Campy, Helicobacter, sRNAs, ecospecies 🇨🇦
Sam Díaz-Muñoz (they / ella) @sociovirology.bsky.social I study the social lives of viruses. Associate Prof at UC Davis. Previously: UHS | B.S. @UPRM | Ph.D. @Cal | PD @UCSanDiego @Yale @nyuniversity
🇵🇷 🏳️⚧️🌈✊
Yishay Pinto @yishay.bsky.social Computational biologist. Studying genomes of phages and microbes.
https://sites.biu.ac.il/en/pinto-lab
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
Milot Mirdita @milot.bsky.social Open source #bioinformatics at Sungkyunkwan University 🇰🇷 | former Steinegger Lab @ SNU, Söding Lab @ MPI-NAT | http://mstdn.science/@milotmirdita
David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social Bacterial Immunity and Synthetic Biology enthusiast. Head of Lab at Institut Pasteur. Co-Founder of Eligo Bioscience.
Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social PI at Institut Pasteur
Evolution, immunity, genomics, microbiolgy.
Into immunity in bacteria and its conservation in eukaryotes.
Advocate for more inclusive sciences
https://mdmlab.fr/
Andrew Millard @milja001.bsky.social phage, genomes & random news items. All views my own
millardlab.org
RobLavigne.bsky.social @roblavigne.bsky.social Principal investigator of the Laboratory of Gene Technology. Our lab focuses on fundamental molecular microbiology research to inspire new antibacterial design strategies and biotechnology applications.
Jeremy Barr @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social Bacteriophage biologist and enthusiast. Associate Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, Monash University.
Peter Laurin @peterlaurin.bsky.social PhD Student at UCLA studying the genetics and evolution of bacteria in the gut microbiome.
peterlaurin.github.io
Ignacio J. Melero-Jiménez @ignamelero.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @univmalaga.bsky.social | Exploring how photosynthetic microbes adapt to stress 🧪 | Combining experimental evolution, ecology & cutting-edge sequencing to predict adaptation 🔬
Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social Evolving better E. coli for 75,000 generations. Prof at MSU, but opinions my own. (Ok, I also speak for billions -- er, TRILLIONS -- of E. coli.)
Website for LTEE: the-ltee.org
Banner pic from NYC, shared by Darwin. (The microbiologist, not the other one.)
SeppeKuehnLab @seppekuehnlab.bsky.social Physics and biology of microbial communities. Structure, function, evolution. Center for the Physics of Evolving Systems. Dept. of Ecology and Evolution. UChicago. @NITMB, @CLS. kuehnlab.org
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
Patrick Arthofer @patrickarthofer.bsky.social Microbiologist, Virologist, Ecologist, Molecular Biologist
Fatima Aysha Hussain @fatiaysh.bsky.social Assistant Professor Tufts University
Phage-driven evolution of the Vaginal Microbiome
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
Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social Experimental ecology and evolution | microbes | evolution of metabolic interactions | cooperation | bacterial multicellularity.
Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social Microbial ecology and evolution | Professor at University of Lausanne | Theory | Experiments | Egyptian
Jonathan Friedman @jfriedman.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in microbial ecology & evolution at the Hebrew University.
www.friedmanlab.net
Nicole Geerlings @nmjgeerlings.bsky.social Postdoc at the Division of Microbial Ecology (DoME) at the University of Vienna. Cat, cable bacteria and comammox enthusiast. Loves research on metabolic heterogeneity using single-cell imaging methods and stable istopes. 
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.
Andreas Richter @andreasrichter.bsky.social Soils, Microbes, Ecosystems, Climate Change!
TER@CeMESS: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Group, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science.
Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social Group Leader at EMBL spying on the social life of marine microbes and pushing for more inclusive sciences | Tara Oceans | Plankton Manifesto
https://www.embl.org/groups/vincent/
https://planktonmanifesto.org/
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
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- A Anna Lopatina @anlopatina.bsky.social PhD Candidate & Research Associate @JGU Mainz
Dani Schwarz @danischwarz.bsky.social PhD student 
cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at @univie.ac.at, pioneering microbiome and environmental research for the benefit of the planet.
Viruses of Microbes 2024 @vom2024.bsky.social Viruses of Microbes 2024 - International conference on Viruses of Microbes; 15-19 July 2024, Cairns, Australia.
Bettina Glasl @bglasl.bsky.social 
Anne Daebeler @anne-daebeler.bsky.social Microbes, their ecology, physiology, and genomes - especially nitrifiers and CH4 cyclers. Group leader at BC CAS, Czechia. Co-founder of PCI Microbiology. 🦠🐈🌱🏳️🌈
https://microbescancycle.wordpress.com
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
Didier Mazel @amazeld.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist, Prof @ Institut Pasteur.
Dina Hochhauser @dinahoch.bsky.social PhD student @SorekLab @WeizmannScience studying phage-bacteria interactions 🦠, MGEs 🛒 & defence islands 🛡🏝
Vincent Delafont @vincentdlft.bsky.social Passionated by water microbiology, microbial ecology, host-microbe interactions and endosymbioses. Assistant professor at U. of Poitiers 🇫🇷. bike commuter since 2006🚴🏼♂️
Dominik Lücking @dominikluecking.bsky.social GVs, Phages, MGEs and Bioinf :)
Jillian Petersen @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social 🇦🇺 Microbial ecologist, Professor at University of Vienna, Editor-in-Chief, The ISME Journal; she/her
Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social Mol. Microbiol. in Sanitary Engineer. 🚽💩🦠🧬🔬 #tenuretrack @IWR_water @tuvienna & @ICCwaterhealth 🇦🇹; Alumna @DOME_Vienna & @KLKrems- A @annalopatina.bsky.social @annalopatina.bsky.social
Ben Roller @benroller.bsky.social Postdoc, UniWien DOME/CMESS
Watching individual bacteria grow and starve
he/him- S @stanci-kralova.bsky.social @stanci-kralova.bsky.social
Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social Professor at the University of South Florida. Marine microbiology and virology, with a smattering of eukaryotes here and there because focus is for losers. Characterizing the global virome, one virus at a time. Owned by a very cute dog and cat. She/her
Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at Offizieller Account der Uni Wien / Official account of University of Vienna.
Es postet http://communications.univie.ac.at 💬
Impressum: http://go.univie.ac.at/impressum Netiquette: http://go.univie.ac.at/netiquette
Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social Lecturer @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social Microbiome research
Microbe & animal lover
Olaya Rendueles @olayarendueles.bsky.social Microbial evolution & ecology, focus on surface structures (capsules) and HGT (#plasmids #phages), mostly in #Klebsiella #MicroSky
From #Asturias 🇪🇸 living in 🇫🇷
@CNRS
Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social Bioinformatician and microbiologist at Flinders University in Adelaide. @linsalrob on all your socials
Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social The Sorek Lab
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/molgen/Sorek/
Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social Bacteriophages, dormant bacteria, and bacterial immunity. Assistant Professor of Molecular Phage Biology at ETH Zürich.