Vincent van Unen @vincentvanunen.bsky.social Assist. Prof | Leiden Univ. | Mucosal Immunology | IBD & Celiac | Single Cell | Organoids | Bioinformatics | former postdoc Mark Davis & Calvin Kuo Lab at Stanford🌈 vanunenlab.org 🌐
@brock-brethour.bsky.social @brock-brethour.bsky.social University of Maryland Baltimore MMI PhD candidate | Vaccine research | Shigella
Ronan McCarthy @ronanmccarthy.bsky.social Professor at Brunel University of London. Into all things Antibiotic Resistance, Drug Discovery, Biofilms and Signalling
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.
Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social Cellular microbiologist, #UTI host/pathogen interactions, lab head at University College London, novelist, broadcaster, writer, pundit, sci comm, musician, gardener, Editor of LabLit.com, all things geek-chic. M7HZT on ham radio. More at jennyrohn.com
Timo Saratto @timosaratto.bsky.social Software engineering and microbial genomics 🇫🇮
Otto Balsiger @obalsiger.bsky.social Director of Finance, Membership and Publishing at the British Society for Immunology (BSI), also Treasurer/Trustee of Applied Microbiology International (AMI). Dad who loves science and sports (especially #immunology and #taekwondo) All views are my own.
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
Rob Fagan @robfagan.bsky.social Lead for Molecular Microbiology @sheffielduni.bsky.social
@molmicrosheffield.bsky.social
#SEN parent, #AngelmanSyndrome
Clostridial cell biology, AMR & bacteriophage structure and function
He/Him
https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/fagan-lab/
Holthuis Lab @holthuislab.bsky.social Lipid cell biologists who love to hang out with chemists & computer simulations experts to grasp the complex behavior of membranes
JacobsWagnerLab @jacobswagnerlab.bsky.social Research interests: Bacterial replication, antimicrobials, and Lyme disease. Stanford, HHMI.
Michael Galperin @mygalperin.bsky.social Lead Scientist at the Division of Intramural Research (formerly NCBI), NLM, NIH. Bacterial signaling, c-di-GMP, c-di-AMP, protein domains, COG database
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
Pedro Escoll @pescoll.bsky.social How the metabolic crosstalk between pathogenic bacteria and host cells impacts infection? @pasteur.fr
David Tobin @tobinlab.bsky.social Scientist at Duke studying tuberculosis, host susceptibility to infection, and mycobacterial pathogenesis. Views are my own and do not represent those of my employer.
Prof Cynthia Whitchurch FAA🏳️🌈 @cwhitch.bsky.social Microbiologist, interested in alternate bacterial lifestyles - cell wall deficiency, biofilms, AMR
Claudia Hemsley @chemsley.bsky.social Molecular Biologist | Microbiologist with an interest in gene-regulation and pathogenesis. Currently in Dundee 🏴 Favourite bugs are #Pseudomonas #Coxiella #Burkholderia #UPEC
Views are my own.
James Collins @jamescollins82.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville studying hospital associated pathogens including C. difficile and vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE).
SourjikLab @sourjik-lab.bsky.social Interested in quantitative understanding of microbial decision making, signal transduction, motility, physiology and evolution.
https://www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/sourjik
Professor Lesley Hoyles @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social And all this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.
Professor of Microbiome and Systems Biology @ Nottingham Trent University. 🏳️🌈
Working predominantly on the human gut microbiota.
All views my own.
Julien GIRAUD @juliengiraud.bsky.social 3rd year PhD student in Eric Cascales Lab working on the fabulous T6SS 🏹 #T6SS
Bergeron lab @bergeronlab.bsky.social Structural biology, and beer. Not necessarily in that order.
Susan Schlimpert @s-lab.bsky.social Microbiologist, Group Leader and Professor at the John Innes Centre, UK. Our lab is interested in bacterial cell biology and development. We are particularly passionate about #Streptomyces. Lab website: www.schlimpertlab.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
Chassaing Laboratory @chassainglab.bsky.social Laboratory at @institutpasteur
working on Microbiome-Host interactions. In gut I trust. Bugs are my friends. https://www.chassainglab.com/
Lecuit Lab @biupasteur.bsky.social Biology on Infection Unit at Institut Pasteur and Inserm
Harry Low’s Lab @lowlab.bsky.social Bacterial pathogenesis. Antibiotic discovery. Membrane remodelling. Structural biology #cryoEM @Imperial College, London thelowlab.org
Martin Thanbichler @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social Bacterial cell biology and biochemistry | Professor at the University of Marburg, Germany
Guzzo lab - Lyon @mguzzo.bsky.social Signaling and Asymmetry of the Bacterial cell lab at MMSB - CNRS Lyon
Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social Synthetic Biology with a Southern European flavour for a new partnership with the Living World https://vdl-lab.com/ http://seva-plasmids.com/
Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist interested in AMR & microbiomes 🦠 UKRI Future Leaders Fellow & Group Leader @ Queen’s University Belfast. she/her. Ex-GB athlete 🇬🇧
Caroline Demangel @demangelab.bsky.social Immunologist @Institut Pasteur
Fan of #immunology #cell biology #macrophages #mycobacteria #lipid droplets #reticulum
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/immunobiology-and-therapy/
Jake Choby @jakechoby.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina
Antibiotic heteroresistance in Enterobacterales
chobylab.org
Rob Kingsley @drrobkingsley.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology @uniofeastanglia and Group Leader @TheQuadram, Norwich, UK - genomics, AMR, host-pathogen interactions, phage, microbiome
Editor Communications Biology
Ross Fitzgerald @jrossfitz.bsky.social Microbiologist, Bacterial evolution, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh
Sebastian Winter @sewinter.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis Health.
Host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions. Gut microbiome. Model trains.
Opinions are my own.
Joe Dillard @sacculus.bsky.social Bacteriologist. We study Nesseria, Gardnerella, and all things related to peptidoglycan. Professor at UW-Madison.
Conlon Lab @bconlon.bsky.social Associate professor studying antibiotics and host-pathogen interactions at UNC Chapel Hill
Peter Lind @peteralind.bsky.social Associate Professor Umeå University. Predicting experimental evolution: biofilm, antimicrobial resistance, multicellularity, mutation bias. lindlab.org
Aaron Whiteley @aaronwhiteley.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Microbiologist. All-around nerd.
http://colorado.edu/lab/aaron-whiteley/
Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. Microbes, evolution, and infectious disease.
Dad and husband.
barberlab.org
Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social Scientist, Huck Professor: Microbiome, Virome, Symbiosis, Evolution, Genetics, Phylosymbiosis, Holobiont, Wolbachia, Phage | Director of One Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social | SciEd: @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social | @holobiontbiology.bsky.social
Melanie Blokesch @mblokesch.bsky.social Professor of Life Sciences @EPFL_en. Passionate about science 🤩 Views are my own.
Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social Microbiology, microbiome, antimicrobial resistance. Sometimes UK politics. Head of Research of the School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, University of Birmingham. Also Co-Director of @target-amr.bsky.social.
Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social Professor, University of Geneva. We study Enterococcal biofilms, pathogenesis, and AMR. Formerly @KimInSingapore 🌴.
https://kimberlyklinelab.com/
Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social Director of Department of Microbiome Science at MPI Biology Tübingen Germany. Also known as Leylab.com.
Andreas Peschel @andreaspeschel.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology at the University of Tübingen, studying Staphylococcus biology and pathogenicity
Michael Wagner @michiwagner4.bsky.social Prof. at Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at University of Vienna, Austria and at Aalborg University, Denmark. Director of Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes drive Planetary Health", Dad, Views are my own.
Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social Innate immunity/host-pathogen interactions. Husband, father, former Soviet immigrant. Opinions my own.
Asaf Levy @asaflevylab.bsky.social Interested in computational biology, microbial toxins, plant microbiome, and microbial adaptation to different hosts.
PI at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
https://www.asaflevylab.com/
Expressing my personal opinions.
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/
Petra Dersch @pdersch.bsky.social Infection Biologist, pathogenic bacteria, microbial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, regulatory RNAs
Head of the Institute of Infectiology, University Münster, Germany
Barral Lab @barrallab.bsky.social Immunology lab at King’s College London and The Francis Crick Institute
#Immunology #Lipids #NKT #MAIT
Çagla Tükel @caglatukel.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology, immunology and inflammation. Interested in host-biofilm interactions, bacterial amyloid curli and microbial pathogenesis
Casey Theriot @theriotmicrobe.bsky.social Professor in Infectious Disease, microbiologist, C. difficile, gut microbiome, metabolomics, microbial mediated bile acids, amino acids
Dr. Sunny Shin @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania | bacterial pathogens & innate immunity | Chair, Microbiology, Virology, Parasitology Graduate Program | she/her | mom | daughter of immigrants | #FirstGen | opinions are my own
Lab: sunnyshinlab.com
J Magarian Blander @magarianblander.bsky.social Armenian American Scientist studies immune responses to #microbes, #tissueinjury, & earliest stages of #cancer.
Professor, Head of Biomedical Research Lab
https://www.theblanderlab.org
#macrophage #Dendriticcell #inflammasome #celldeath #Tcell
Westermann Lab @westermannlab.bsky.social Microbiota RNA Lab at the University of Würzburg and the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research.
https://www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/research/associated-scientists-alumni/teams/team/host-pathogen-microbiota-interactions/
Michael Fischbach @mfgrp.bsky.social Liu (Liao) Family Professor of Bioengineering, ChEM-H @Stanford.
@vanessasperandio2.bsky.social @vanessasperandio2.bsky.social
Borden Lacy @bordenlacy.bsky.social Scientist interested in bacterial toxins, Clostridioides difficile, and sustainable energy practices.
Jörn Coers @coerslab.bsky.social Scientist at Duke University. My team studies cell-autonomous immunity to intracellular pathogens and inflammation. Views are my own and do not represent those of my employer.
Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social Physician-scientist, microbiologist, infectious diseases specialist, medical school professor. Opinions expressed are my own.
Pelechano lab @pelechanolab.bsky.social Research group at Karolinska Institute - SciLifeLab. Stockholm, Sweden. Managed by Vicent Pelechano.
Erdinc Sezgin @sciezgin.bsky.social Scientist
Immunology, Membranes, Lipids, Microscopes, Open Science
Cava Lab @cavalab.bsky.social
Kemal Avican @kavican.bsky.social
@kkotloff.bsky.social @kkotloff.bsky.social
David Rasko @raskodavid.bsky.social I am a microbiologist, genome junky and driver of children
Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago. Study the pathogenesis of tuberculosis, and other mycobacterial infections. Opinions my own.
The Shigella Meeting @shigellameeting.bsky.social The official social of the EMBO workshop: 1st international #Shigella meeting, being held at Institut Pasteur 20th - 24th April 2026. Abstracts and registrations are OPEN: https://www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
Yves Brun lab @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social We like to look at bacteria do the things they do. Université de Montréal.
Henrik Strahl @henrikstrahl.bsky.social Microbiology Prof at the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University. Research focus on antibiotics, AMR, bioenergetics and bacterial cell envelopes, 🇫🇮
Jay Hinton @jayhinton.bsky.social Salmonella admirer & Prof of Microbiology - Working on Salmonella bloodstream infections (iNTS) in sub- Saharan Africa context. Functional genomics. T1D.
Meera Unnikrishnan @meeraunnikri.bsky.social Microbiologist with a love for difficult pathogens! Prof @ Uni of Warwick
James Connolly @ruamicro.bsky.social MRC Career Development Fellow at Newcastle University. Studying how pathogens control their genes
Kröger Lab @kroegerlab.bsky.social Microbiology Lab run by Carsten Kröger at the Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin.
Joe Wanford @jwanford.bsky.social Group leader and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow at King's College London. Using comparative genomics, microbiology and innate immunology to study Klebsiella virulence. Foodie and below average footballer.
Manuela Raffatellu @manuelar.bsky.social From Sardinia to California - Professor at UCSD - Love microbes. Find me by the ocean or at my Pilates studio
Veit Hornung @v-hornung.bsky.social (Innate) Immunologist at LMU Munich
Olivier Neyrolles @oneyrolles.bsky.social Director of https://www.ipbs.fr Toulouse 🇫🇷🇪🇺
Microbe-host enthusiast tackling TB and beyond | Passionate #SciComm advocate | #MicroSky #TBSky #CNRS | He/Him | Views mine
Queen's University Belfast @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Official account of Queen's University Belfast.
One of the Russell Group’s leading research-intensive universities.
We provide world-class education & research.
RT≠Endorsement.
More: www.qub.ac.uk
House Rules: ow.ly/APC750YZAnz
Kufer Lab , Department of Immunology @kufer-lab.bsky.social Department of Immunology
Institute of Nutritional Medicine
#unihohenheim
#immunosky
https://immu.uni-hohenheim.de/en
Julie Guignot @julieguignot.bsky.social Group leader @inserm, @institutcochin. Host pathogens interactions. Meningitis, neuroinflammation. Opinions my own.
David Riglar @driglar.bsky.social PI and Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow at Imperial College London and The Francis Crick Institute.
Casanova Lab @casanovalab.bsky.social We're a research lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center (TX) and Necker Hospital (Paris) studying human genetic and immunological determinants of infectious diseases.
https://www.hgid.org/
The Powrie Lab @powrielab.bsky.social Powrie Lab news and Mucosal Immunology content! Based at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology @kiroxford.bsky.social
Posts are by members of the Powrie Lab, not necessarily representative of the lab as a whole.
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.
George Birchenough @gobletcellguy.bsky.social Updates from the Birchenough Lab, one of the Mucin Biology Groups based at the University of Gothenburg. All things goblet cell, mucus and mucin. Check us out:
www.birchenoughlab.org
https://www.medkem.gu.se/mucinbiology/
Emma Slack @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social Professor for Mucosal Immunology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, UK. We work on novel oral vaccines, AMR, and microbiome function. Making science fairer, kinder and more equitable 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️. Views are my own.
John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social VP Research & Innovation, University College Cork @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social |PI @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social |Prof Dept. Anatomy & Neuroscience |MRIA @ria.ie|
Stress, Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis, Brain-Body Interactions, Research Policy
Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social Prof Lindsay Hall’s research group at University of Birmingham & Quadram Institute. Early life microbiota (we love Bifidobacterium!), and influence of diet, host and pathogens.
Ana Santos Almeida @anasalmeida.bsky.social Microbiome in Health & Disease Translational Lab | PI @GIMM | Advisor @GetTinyHealth | Mom of 2 | Wife. PhD🇫🇷 Postdoc🇺🇸 🇨🇮 Always🇵🇹
Thaher Pelaseyed @tpelaseyed.bsky.social PI @ Mucin Biology Groups, University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪. Very excited about #epithelial #cell #biology, #mucins and #glycotime. Also building MucoLife Therapeutics (mucolife.com) to tackle the unresolved problem of pulmonary mucus obstruction.
Amy Engevik @amyengevik.bsky.social Epithelial cell biologist and physiologist studying the GI tract.
Lisa Maier Lab | Tübingen @lisamaierlab.bsky.social Systematically dissecting the lifestyle of human gut microbes
Marianne Grognot @grognotlab.bsky.social Junior Professor @RWTH Aachen, Germany.
Host-microbe interactions 🦠🔬👩🔬 through the lens of bacterial motility
Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social passionate archaea-microbiologist, microbiome researcher, #womaninscience, prof for microbiology, balancing family and science (she/her).
Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social Mucosal Immunologist interested in the complexity of IBD. Professor @Karolinskainst, Wallenberg Fellow & editor @MucosalImmunol. Opinions are my own
Cadwell Lab @cadwelllab.bsky.social We investigate the interface between the immune system and diverse infectious agents ranging from friendly gut microbes and viruses to disease-causing parasites
Our Lab: https://www.med.upenn.edu/cadwell-lab/