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
Caulocon @caulocon.bsky.social A free, 3-day virtual meeting on all things 𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 and Alphaproteobacteria taking place March 3rd-5th.
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Rock Lab @rocklabtb.bsky.social Rock Lab @ Rockefeller University. Tuberculosis functional genomics.
Max Gutierrez @maxgg.bsky.social Cell Biologist 🇦🇷&🇬🇧 at The Crick in London
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.
Hatzios Lab @hatzioslab.bsky.social Chemically dissecting host–microbe interactions at Yale University
Michael Boucher @mjboucher.bsky.social Microbiologist studying human fungal pathogens | New PI at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
https://wadsworth.org/research/laboratories/boucher
Roberto Vázquez Núñez @robertovn.bsky.social Postdoc at Seychelle Vos lab, MIT Biology.
Biochemist, interested in transcription and chromosome organization
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Brandon Sit @sitbrandon.bsky.social postdoc at MIT Bio | interested in obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen-host interactions | can -> usa transplant
Lauren Bird @laurenbird.bsky.social Postdoc, Lamason lab @ MIT Biology (formerly Newton lab @ Unimelb). Fascinated by obligate intracellular pathogens 🧫👩🏻🔬 (she/her) 🇦🇺—>🇺🇸
Hubert Salvail @hubertsalvail.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida. Stressing bacteria, pesting pathogens and folding RNA. Foodie, music lover and traveller. Fier Québécois.
Siân Owen @sianowen.bsky.social Microbiologist & phage phanatic! Enthusiastic explorer of microbial genomes.
PI at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
Asst Prof @albany.edu
Currently obsessed with plasmid-dependent phages
www.wadsworth.org/research/laboratories/owen
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org Funding brave and bold since 1946.
damonrunyon.org
Jane Coffin Childs Fund for Medical Research @jcchildsfund.bsky.social Official Blue Sky account of Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund. Follow for updates on JCC fellows, alumni, and scientific board members.
jccfund.org
Boston Bacterial Meeting @bostonbacteria.bsky.social We’re a bacteriology-focused research conference organized by trainees, for trainees. The 32nd annual BBM2026 will be June 22-23 at the George Sherman Union at Boston University!- P Shawna Reed @profpathogen.bsky.social Primarily-Teaching + Research Mentor @ Quinnipiac University in CT. Microbial Pathogenesis, Cell Bio, rickettsia. All posts and conversations here are my own.
Michelle Reniere @mreniere.bsky.social 
Bailey Bowcutt @baileybowcutt.bsky.social Microbiology PhD student in Yonatan Grad’s lab at Harvard SPH. Old student of Manning Lab at Michigan State (go green!).
Interested in AMR, one health, gonorrhea, rural public health and more. Wyoming raised.
Jeff Bourgeois, PhD @bourgeoisjs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ WPI Dept. of Biology and Biotechnology. Studies how host & bacterial diversity impact Borrelia burgdorferi spread and Lyme disease severity.
Kickballer | Dog Dad | He/Him | 🏳️🌈
https://bourgeoislabworcester.wordpress.com
Rockefeller University Press @rupress.org We publish the scientific journals @jcb.org, @jem.org, @jgp.org, @jhumimmunity.org, and co-publish @lsajournal.org. Visit our journals at https://rupress.org
Tiffany Zarrella @tiffzarrella.bsky.social assistant professor at georgetown | polymicrobial interactions | bacterial physiology | science educator | views my own
www.zarrellalab.org
Andrea Marat @andreamarat.bsky.social Deputy Editor at the Journal of Cell Biology
Views my own
Vive le Canada 🇨🇦
MBTA @mbta.com The official Bluesky account of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
mbta.com
bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social 
bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social 
Buck Samuel 🪱🦠🧬🔬 @microbeminded.bsky.social organismal biologist & geneticist | PI at med school in Houston | amazed by microbial superpowers | he/him
#microbiome #Celegans #spacebiology #firstgen 🧫 🦠 🧪 🧬
GS: https://bit.ly/goog-schol-buck-sam
ORCID: 0000-0002-4347-3997
Sarah D'Orazio @listerialady.bsky.social microbiologist | immunologist | educator
University of Kentucky
Host Microbe interactions @hostmicrobelit.bsky.social Trying to keep up with the literature. Infection, microbiome, bioinformatics and multi-omics.
Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social Our lab at UT Southwestern studies viral pathogenesis. And sometimes wine. 
Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social Epigenetic Inheritance, Neuroscience & anything biology-related
https://www.odedrechavilab.com/
q.e.d: https://www.qedscience.com
Organizer of “The Woodstock of Biology”
TED: https://shorturl.at/myFTY
Huberman Lab Podcast: https://youtu.be/CDUetQMKM6g
Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social Study genetic conflicts professionally. Try to avoid conflicts in personal life (with mixed results).
Fred Hutch Basic Sciences,
UW Genome Sciences,
HHMI.
Posting in a personal capacity. My posts don’t reflect my employers’ opinions.
Jutras Lab @jutraslab.bsky.social Associate Professor studying the biology and pathogenesis of spirochetes (#Lymedisease #STI) @NorthwesternU @NUFeinbergMed. Opinions=me. 🇨🇦/🇺🇸 #Microsky
Katrina Velle @katrinavelle.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UMass Dartmouth. Interested in actin, amoebae, microscopy, and sciart. she/her
katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science 
Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social Evolutionary cell biology / evolution of morphogenesis / animal origins / choanoflagellates @institutpasteur.bsky.social
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/evolutionary-cell-biology-and-evolution-of-morphogenesis/
Peter Chien @chienlab.bsky.social Looking at small things making small things even smaller. UMass Amherst Biochemistry. Microbiology. Views are my own. He/him 
Arash Komeili @micromagnets.bsky.social Cell biology of bacterial organelles. We love magnetic bacteria (www.komeililab.org)
Erin Goley @goleylab.bsky.social Bacterial cell biologist.
Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social Collector of social media sites. Infectious disease epidemiologist. Writes about vaccine hesitancy, science misinfo, zombies. Probably somewhere on a trail. Views own etc.
Michael Baym @baym.lol Associate Prof @HarvardMed. Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements, algorithms, phages, molecular biotech, etc. Find me under “floating dumpster fire”
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social I cover infectious diseases for STAT (www.statnews.com). 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. I write about H5N1 (in all species), Covid, polio, flu, Ebola, RSV, mpox, STIs. Send me news tips on Signal: HBranswell.01
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/carlzimmer/
Web: http://carlzimmer.com
[This account includes a tweet archive]
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
Gabriele Pollara @gpollara.bsky.social Infectious Diseases doctor (at UCLH) and academic (at UCL). Research focuses on host-pathogen interactions in TB, leprosy and UTIs. What are the immune, epithelial and stromal cell responses involved, and could they be targets for host-directed therapies?
Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social Sci-Comm | Researcher @kurzgesagt.org | she/her 🦠🧫🔬 | Tell your cat I said PSPSPSPS
Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social All views and opinions expressed 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.
Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social ID doc (MGH), PI (Broad Institute), antibiotic resistance resister, sepsis immune profiler, COVID doc, husband, dad. Coffee, tennis, kindness, science, & sleep enthusiast. Here to learn, as that other place devolves. Views mine. | bhattacharyyalab.org
Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social Associate Professor, MIT
Still thinking about the 10^9 mutations generated in your microbiome today.
Website: http://lieberman.science
Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social Head of the School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @ Uni Birmingham. Proud Scot. Oversaw a few Covid PCR tests
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
PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social Weigel Lab aka WeigelWorld Repost≠endorsement
#OpenScience
COIs http://tinyurl.com/DWCOI2022 GoogleScholar http://tinyurl.com/DeWeScholar
Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility. https://zam-iqbal-lab.org/
Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social #NewPI interested in #immune #evolution, host #pathogen interactions, and #ScientificPublishing @ University of Exeter, UK. He/him. 🇨🇦
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/
Tera Levin @teralevin.bsky.social Assistant professor of Biological Sciences at Pitt, studying evolution, genes, and microbes. Same as @tera_levin in the other place. #NewPI She/her
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)
Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social Microbial evolution / University of Manchester
Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social Increasing Visibility. Facilitating Connection. Moving Microbiology Forward. Get connected today
Connect with us: linktr.ee/blackinmicro
Contact: admin@blackinmicrobiology.org
Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @copperbae.bsky.social Assoc Prof Immunobiology at University of Arizona, Assoc Dean Basic science and grad studies for College of Medicine-Tucson, NSURP.org director. Long live copper!
Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social Macrobe qui aime les microbes
http://www.shapirolab.ca/
Jessica Blair @jessicamablair.bsky.social Professor of Antimicrobial Resistance. Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham. Director University of Birmingham Doctoral School. Editor in Chief of npj Antimicrobials and Resistance. 
Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social Infectious Disease Epidemiologist investigating #AMR
Based at @thekidsau.bsky.social in Perth, Australia
Interests in #auspol and global affairs, ex-MSF
Servant to two Lebanese ex-street cats
reposts ≠ endorsement
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5295-8451
Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social Scientist working on antibiotic resistance, evolution, and mobile genetic elements. Prof at U.Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College 
Nels Elde @elearlybird.bsky.social Evolutionary genetics and cell biology. And co-host of This Week in Evolution: www.microbe.tv/twievo/ Elde lab: cellvolution.org Opinions: my own, not employers
Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social Mostly about bacterial gene/protein regulation & function, esp. with Borrelia burgdorferi and Lyme disease. Professor at U Kentucky, views are my own. He/him
Lab= http://microscopist.net/Stevenson_Lab.html
UK= https://medicine.uky.edu/users/bstev0
Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social Scientist, genomics, evolution, microbiology, computational biology, Institut Pasteur/CNRS, Paris
Anupama Khare @anukharelab.bsky.social Avid reader. Mom. Scientist @NIH. All opinions are my own.
Tracy Palmer @proftracypalmer.bsky.social We work on the type VII secretion system and are interested in Gram positive competitive mechanisms.
Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Lister Prize Fellow, & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at U of Manchester. Bioinf, microbes, evol bio, running, cycling, & pub chats. she/her 🇨🇦. whelanlab.co.uk
Carolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social Microbiologist 🧫🧪 | Microbe-Microbe interactions in infection | Mom of 👧🏼👦🏼🐶| Asst. Professor at UTK | Views my own 
Fabrice Jean-Pierre @fabricejpierre.bsky.social Assistant Professor @USherbrooke | Polymicrobial biofilms, interactions & mechanisms of recalcitrance | he/him
https://www.fjplab.com/
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=N5UlGZgAAAAJ&hl=en
Dr. Amy Lee @minisciencegirl.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ SFU MBB | Systems Biology of Host-Pathogen | Vaccinology | Neonatal Sepsis | Pathogen Genomics | Loves data, food & art.
Kat Mayer-Barber,PhD @mayerbarber.bsky.social Cellular mucosal immunologist- lung- 🫁 innate immunity and inflammtion @IRP/NIAID/NIH - views my own
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/katrin-d-mayer-barber-dr-rer-nat-phd
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/
Ellinor Alseth @ellinoralseth.bsky.social Eco-evo with microbes. I happen to like fjords, I think they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. The University of Tromsø. Opinions my own. She/her
Yonatan Grad @yhgrad.bsky.social Prof @ Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. Antimicrobial resistance, STIs, N. gonorrhoeae, pandemic preparedness/response, pathogen genomics, mathematical modeling, ID epi
Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social Associate Prof at UPenn & Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Director of Center for Microbial Medicine (https://tinyurl.com/2xve6jfp) at CHOP
We study host-pathogen interactions, C. diff, Enterococcus, gut microbiota, mRNA vaccines.
zackularlab.org
Patrick R. Secor @prsecor.bsky.social Associate Professor at Montana State University. Studying bacteria and their viruses with a focus on phage-host-microbe interactions.
Lab Website: https://secorlab.org
Faculty profile:
https://www.montana.edu/mbi/directory/2553333/patrick-secor
Lindsay Kalan @lkalan.bsky.social Associate Professor at McMaster university interested in microbes and how they interact with each other and with us. #MicroSky #IDSky #Microbiomesky #secmet 🇨🇦🧫🧬⚗️
Pedro Vale @pfvale.bsky.social Ecology & Evolution of Infection Dynamics lab, Edinburgh, UK https://pedrovale.bio.ed.ac.uk/
Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social Microbiology, evolution, and bacteriophages. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social Innate immunity/host-pathogen interactions. Husband, father, former Soviet immigrant. Opinions my own.
Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social Professor, University of Geneva. We study Enterococcal biofilms, pathogenesis, and AMR. Formerly @KimInSingapore 🌴.
https://kimberlyklinelab.com/
ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social Physician-scientist at UC San Diego, Microbiology, Immunology, Novel Drug and Vaccine Discovery, #IDSky, Mentoring and Supporting STEM Career Development.
Enjoy exploring the outdoors, world cultures, sports, comedy, community.
http://nizetlab.ucsd.edu
Cara Haney @carahaney.bsky.social Associate Professor. Pseudomonas-host interactions, the plant microbiome, how good microbes turn bad. Pitt BioSciences
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
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.
Christopher LaRock @larocklab.com Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology. Scientist & Lab Leader. Streptococcus, invasive infection, host-pathogen interaction, cell death, antibiotic failure, academia, mentoring. Only my opinions
Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social Asst Prof of Micro and Immuno in Chicago | antimicrobial resistance💊| Acinetobacter baumannii-host interface🦠| views my own | she/her
Kevin Wood @kevinwoodum.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biophysics and Physics at UM (Michigan). We study microbial dynamics with models and experiments inspired by physics. Papa, husband, IPA drinker, NBA and KY bball fan. Order may vary. he/him
Victor J. Torres @torreslab.bsky.social Scientist fascinated by infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions and bacterial infections. Views my own 🇵🇷 #CienciaBoricua #MacFellow #MRSA
Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social Distinguished Professor University of California Davis
Member, NAS, AAM, Leopoldina, AAAS
Views are my dog's
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
Manuela Raffatellu @manuelar.bsky.social From Sardinia to California - Professor at UCSD - Love microbes. Find me by the ocean or at my Pilates studio
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social Professor of Translational Immunology • Infection & Immunity • Public Involvement and Engagement • Scientist and migrant • Superbugs
Dr. Caitlin Pepperell @csp.bsky.social Evolutionary genomicist, fan of bacteria, infectious diseases physician
Kayla King, Ph.D. @kayla-king.bsky.social Prof & Canada Excellence Research Chair | UBC Zoology, M&I | Evolution, ecology, host-pathogen, biodiversity | #firstgen | she/her/hers
Andreas Peschel @andreaspeschel.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology at the University of Tübingen, studying Staphylococcus biology and pathogenicity
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