STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social A blog that aims to share appreciation for the width & depth of microbial activities.
Posts by Christoph, not necessarily the opinion of all team members of Small Things Considered (STC) https://smallthingsconsidered.blog/
Sam Holtzen, PhD @samholtzen.bsky.social postdoc at caltech
he/they
opinions are my own
computers and biosensors
💻 https://samholtzen.github.io/
SEVA Plasmids @sevaplasmids.bsky.social A non-profit Open Access repository of standardised plasmids following the SEVA format. Check out our database and request your #plasmid free of charge #synbio
seva-plasmids.com
Solar-to-X Portfolio @solar-to-x.bsky.social Devices for the decentralized production and consumption of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials as climate change mitigation pathway.
Funded by the European Innovation Council.
https://www.eicsolar.eu/
C5 EU Project @c5-project.eu EU-funded project engineering cyanobacteria and synthetic organelles to convert sunlight, water, and CO2 into bio-isoprene in a more sustainable way. Part of the Solar-to-X portfolio.
https://c5-project.eu
Author’s views only. Grant agreement 101223091
Cress Lab @cresslab.bsky.social The Cress Lab | Innovative Genomics Institute @ UC Berkeley | Microbiome Editing | Microbiome Delivery Technologies | Phage and MGE Functional Genomics | Hiring!
https://www.cresslab.bio/
Nicholas Southern @neuroscinikolai.bsky.social PhD Student @ https://niopeklab.de/
Engineering switchable proteins💡
Views and opinions are my own
🇺🇸 in 🇩🇪
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social Or just “Li” |
Assist. Prof. @ Plant Bio, Michigan State U. |
Also post data visualization |
Lab: https://cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/ |
GitHub: https://github.com/cxli233
AI x Bio Discovery @aixbiobot.bsky.social Automated discovery of AI x Bio papers, blogs, and news.
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
Bas van Woudenberg @woudenbe.bsky.social | PhD candidate | Synthetic Biology | Metabolic engineering | C1 Metabolism | 
Karas Lab @karaslab.bsky.social Synthetic Biology. Designer cells and organelles. Space plants and microbes. Antifungal. Antimicrobials. Optimization of DNA delivery: conjugation, cell fusion. Western University, Canada.
Justin Brodie-Kommit, PhD @justinbk.bsky.social Climate Hard Tech Investor 🌱 | Climate Tech Community Builder | General Partner Lichen Ventures | DC Climate Week Co-Organizer
https://www.lichen.vc/
European Synthetic Biology Society @eusynbios.org We aim to promote and consolidate the field of synthetic biology in Europe, check out our website https://www.eusynbios.org 🧬✨
@danbergen.bsky.social @danbergen.bsky.social 
Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social typing...
(also active on X as @cees_dekker)
Beau Dronsella @beaubd.bsky.social Postdoc in the Erblab working on synthetic carbon fixation
Nicolas Jaenisch @nicjaenisch.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate | Laboratory of Synthetic and Applied Microbiology (LSAM) @jescheklab.bsky.social at EPFL 🦠⚙️
Nico Claassens @nicoc-micsynmet.bsky.social Associate Professor Microbial Synthetic Metabolism
Wageningen University | Synthetic Biology | Sustainability | working at @mib-wur.bsky.social
http://wur.eu/micsynme
Ari Satanowski @ari-satanowski.bsky.social PostDoctoral Fellow, working on metabolic engineering and in vivo directed evolution
Helena Schulz-Mirbach @helenasm.bsky.social PhD student rewiring E. coli for synthetic C1 assimilation
@labnikel.bsky.social @labnikel.bsky.social 
Trends in Microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Posts by Shankar Iyer, editor of Trends in Microbiology.
Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social Synthetic Biologist, Protein and Genome Engineer, Microbe and Fungi Fan
www.billerbecklab.com
Alexandra M. @alexandraemilia93.bsky.social PhD student at Wageningen University
(Biomanufacturing & Digital Twins sub-group + philosophy group)
Interested in and writing about biotechnology developments - with an ethical, political, critical twist.
Johannes Rebelein @rebeleinlab.bsky.social Nitrogenase, Metalloenzymes, CO2 and N2 Fixation, Professor for Sustainable Biotechnology at the University of Düsseldorf and Director of the Institute for Molecular Enzyme Technology at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. https://www.iet.uni-duesseldorf.de/
Gairik Sachdeva @gairik.bsky.social A bioengineer who believes in an abundant future. Follow my writing on innovation at: https://gairiksachdeva.substack.com/
Biotech business development at Skyhook. Previously at Arbor Bio, Abata Tx, Silver Lab.
All views here and on Substack are my own.
Alexander Darlington @apsduk.bsky.social RAEng Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer. in Control and Engineering Biology developing gene circuit design frameworks. Lab based at Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. Formally Warwick Synthetic Biology Centre.
Jose L. Balcazar @balcjos.bsky.social Senior Researcher at
@icrawater.bsky.social💧
Focus on #microbiology, #AMR, #OneHealth, #biofilms, #phages, #metagenomics, and #bioinformatics
Mitja M. Zdouc @mmzdouc.bsky.social Tenure Track Professor in Natural Product Research. Has a passion for biosynthesis, linked open data, and software engineering.
Former postdoc@WUR, former PhD@Naicons Srl
Áureo Cutillas @a-cf.bsky.social Biotechnologist with a soft spot for the ocean 🧬🌊
PhD candidate @WUR - Trying to make Microalgae acquainted with Synthetic biology🌞
MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social Neuro and Developmental biologist. PostDoc at day. Supervillain at night. He/him #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights
@mads100tist@mastodon.social
Trevor Nicks @biotechalchemist.bsky.social Synthetic Biologist & Biotechnology Engineer in Portland, OR | Potter, pianist, & powerlifter | Co-Founder & CTO at Caravel Bio |
Noelia Ferruz @noeliaferruz.bsky.social Generative models for protein design.
Group leader at CRG
Enrique Asin-Garcia @asinthetic.bsky.social 👨🏻🔬 Assistant Professor at Wageningen University | Synthetic Biology → Biomanufacturing | Biointelligence, biosensors & biosafety | Co-Founder and Board SynBioNL |
Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social Scientist & skeptic. Dad. Book addict. Pathologically curious. Origins and Evolution of Complexity, Synthetic Transitions, Liquid Brains, and Earth Terraformation. ICREA, SFI & CSH professor. Author. Secular humanist.
Enrico Orsi @eorsi.bsky.social Bolognese 🇮🇹 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
I engineer and optimize the metabolism of nonmodel C1-trophic bacteria for novel biotechnological applications
Metabolic Engineering | Green Economy | CO2 valorization | DTU Biosustain
Jason Zhang 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social Computational designer of molecular tools for intracellular signaling. Assistant Professor at UCLA Bioengineering. Website: www.jasonzhanglab.com Lab’s Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jasonzhanglab.bsky.social
Yu Heng Lau @yuhenglau.bsky.social Associate Professor, Chemical and Synthetic Biology | The University of Sydney | Protein Engineering, Capsid Assembly, Med Chem, Peptides | http://LauGroup.net
Jeremie Kalfon 👨💻🧬🤖🚀 @jkobject.com Doing a Ph.D. AI in Bio. | Ex @WhiteLabGx @BroadInstitute @MIT | Built @PiPleteam | ML, Cancer, Genomics, Data Sci, Entrepreneur, FullStack Dev | All views are mine
ross @rosscloney.bsky.social Chief Editor for Biotechnology at Nature Communications. This is gonna be mostly science, sometimes other stuff. All views my own. he/him
Hannes Bretschneider @ha.nnes.io Biotech, protein design @ Fable Therapeutics
Toronto, ON
Chris Wan @chrisjwan.bsky.social Synbio, origins of life. Postdoc at the Francis Crick Institute
Brian Weaver @brianweaver.bsky.social Molecular & Synthetic Biologist at The Fynder Group. Interested in industrial uses of filamentous fungi, enzymes, protein engineering, & biocatalysis. Formerly Corteva Agriscience, UWMadison and ValpoU.
Alec @alectricity.bsky.social Co-founder & CEO at Asimov
Dr. Fatma Kaplan @drfatmakaplan.bsky.social CEO & Founder @Pheronym.com alumna of @Indbio @activatefellows @cyclotronroad
I am a #scientist #inventor #entrepreneur
I work on #biocontrol #pheromones #nematodes #astronematode #wormsinspace #climatesmart #agriculture
Tina Perica @glukozica.bsky.social Assistant professor of Biochemistry, University of Zurich
Lab: https://perica.bioc.uzh.ch
Too school for cool
Henry Lee @citizenlee.bsky.social CEO at Cultivarium. Technobiologist, starting with microbes.
Miles Gander @milesgander.bsky.social Head of Large Libraries @ http://Cradle.Bio - Engineering better proteins, faster. SynBio+AI/ML - Synthetic biologist and Seattle sports fan.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mileswgander
Sonia Mecacci @soniamec.bsky.social PhD candidate at WUR in Synthetic Biology and Microbiology | Steering committee @eusynbios.org | iGEM alumni 🧬☀️
Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social Canadian doing Synthetic Biology South of the 49th. Recovering academic. Pushing genes and inadvertently Solarpunk.
David Calderón-Franco @davidcalfran.bsky.social Co-founder of Hologenomix (https://hologenomix.nl) PhD in Environmental Biotechnology 🧪 A bit of 🧬 and this🦠, and also this 💻 #FromBarcelona 🇪🇸🇪🇺
plasmidsaurus @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social Sequence plasmids, amplicons, colonies, AAV, yeast, and bacterial genomes! Our advanced sequencing delivers comprehensive visibility, higher accuracy, and the ability to detect structural variations and rare mutations that other sequencing methods miss.
Ismael Mullor Ruiz. PhD @ismamullor.bsky.social Molecular Programmer. Bionanotechnologist. Synthetic Biologist. Now dabbing into QIST. Metalhead. Unrepentant goth. Hedonist when allowed. Brewer. It may contain unexpected traces of lame humour, wit, and several forms of non-conformity
Lenny Teytelman @lteytelman.bsky.social Biologist. President and cofounder, protocols.io (he/him)
Olexandr Isayev 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @olexandr.bsky.social Chemistry professor at CMU. Connecting chemical sciences with AI #MachineLearning and automated experimentation. #tarheels fan. Care: #design, #photography #Ukraine #cats🐈 Rants are mine
Kaia Mattioli @kaiamattioli.bsky.social incoming Asst Prof at CU Denver (Oct 2026). currently a K99/R00 postdoc, 24/7 feminist @ Harvard/BWH. generally fascinated by genomes.
mattioli-lab.org
David Sünderhauf @davvi36.bsky.social Microbiologist at the University of Exeter: AMR🧫 | Loves plasmids & MGEs | Green Councillor on Truro City Council 🌿 | Would love to do more sci-comm in Cornwall 〓〓 | he/him
Promoted by David Sünderhauf (Green Party), at 17 Great George St, Bristol BS1 5
Tatiana Dimitriu @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social @royalsociety University Research Fellow in St Andrews. Bacterial evolution, mobile genetic elements & defence systems, antibiotic resistance, social interactions. 🇫🇷 with some 🇷🇴 and 🇺🇦 roots. She/her
Daniela Barillà @danielabarilla.bsky.social Microbial geneticist interested in large and small DNA 🧬 rings in bacteria and archaea.
Living in Brontë country and based at the University of Old York.
https://barillalabyork.weebly.com/
Karin Schann @karin555.bsky.social Scientist at the CNB-CSIC Madrid
SynBio enthusiast 🧬🦠
Microbial engineering | Synthetic metabolism | Biosensors
Berlin 🇩🇪 | Madrid 🇪🇸 | Groningen 🇳🇱
Jelmar de Vries @jelmardevries.bsky.social Metabolically engineering chromosome-free cells
PhD candidate at WUR
Cristian Ruiz @biocriss.bsky.social #FirstGen | Synthetic Biologist |🇬🇹➡️🇨🇵➡️
Coffee, Running and Science
Interested in engineering and evolving microorganisms for new-to-nature capabilities
Gerrich @gerrich.bsky.social Non-conventional microbes, metabolic engineering and microbial genetics. Bacteria go brrr
Finally, finished with my thesis, now off to new frontiers!
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1949-532X
Sebastian Wenk @sebwenk.bsky.social Assistant Professor Sustainable and Synthetic Metabolism at the University of Groningen.
#C1_Metabolism
#Synthetic_Biology
#E.coli_and_other_microbes
🇩🇪->🇧🇷->🇫🇷->🇪🇸->🇳🇱
Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social Scientist, mom, & dog mom. She/they. Trans rights are human rights. Long covid survivor. Pissed about the climate crisis. Tell your dog I said hi
Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social Microbial evangelist and podcaster. Husband, father, moderate. Emeritus Associate Professor after June 2026. Looking for what is next that sparks microbial joy.
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.)
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/
Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag.bsky.social helping cells spend their molecular cash wisely | ants, microbes, and combinations of both | biochemist behind a computer @kit.edu | ex @vuamsterdam.bsky.social, @uniheidelberg.bsky.social & U Vilnius | rookie bassist, saxophonist | pranasag.github.io
Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social Synthetic Biology & Synthetic Genomics @ Imperial College London and the Sanger Institute. Bilingual in English and DNA. Views are either my own or my microbes'
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com Crafting new stories where biology and technology meet oscillator.bio
Isaac Larkin @eyesgack.bsky.social Synthetic biologist. A better world is possible; let’s build it together.
Henrik Toft Simonsen @htsbiotechmoss.bsky.social Fragrances from Bryophytes. Engineering and redesigning of mosses for commercial and scientific purposes. Other plants are also welcome.
#moss #byrophyte #plantscience #biotechnology- M Matthew Chang @mattchangg.bsky.social
Jake Wintermute @synbio1.bsky.social Synthetic Biologist - Foundry Theorist
foundrytheory.substack.com
stay humble biodesigners
bioRxiv Synthetic Biology @biorxiv-synthbio.bsky.social 
Jean Vila @jccvila.bsky.social Microbial evolutionary biologist at Stanford for most of the time. Radically queer leftie for the rest. 🇪🇺🏳️🌈 They/Them
Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social PI at the University of Freiburg, interested in molecular microbiology and all things related to #archaea
Ben Roller @benroller.bsky.social Postdoc, UniWien DOME/CMESS
Watching individual bacteria grow and starve
he/him
Davide Ciccarese @davideciccarese.bsky.social Bridging environmental science and real-world applications | Junior lecturer @ UNIL | Postdoc @ MIT | PhD @ ETH. Climate and bio based solutions. Author of 7 books, winner of two book prize.
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. 
René Inckemann @reneinckemann.bsky.social interested in plant #synbio,
Postdoc @stanford in the Brophy lab,
alumni @mpi_marburg @erblabs,
@gasb_synbio steering
@igemmarburg instructor 2018-2024- H Howard Salis @hsalis.bsky.social Professor of synthetic biology, biological, & chemical engineering. De Novo DNA founder. Engineering microbes with predictive models & algorithms.
Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social Working on design language for biology at American Wetware. iCSO at ATCC. Previously CSO at Ginkgo Bioworks. @p_maverick_b on the old site
Paul Jaschke @pauljaschke.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University | Engineering phage & microbes to discover and create new biology.🇨🇦🇦🇺 👨👩👦👦 🦠🧬
Stefano Donati @stefanodonati.bsky.social Understanding and engineering microbial metabolism DTU BRIGHT, formerly DTU Biosustain.
https://www.biosustain.dtu.dk/research/research-areas/sustainable-chemicals/c1-systems-biology
Pablo Carbonell @pablocarb.bsky.social Synthetic biology designer
Diego del Alamo @delalamo.xyz Computational protein engineering & synthetic biochemistry at Takeda
Opinions my own
https://linktr.ee/ddelalamo
Aaron Whiteley @aaronwhiteley.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Microbiologist. All-around nerd.
http://colorado.edu/lab/aaron-whiteley/
Matti Pihlajamaa @mattipihlaj.bsky.social Senior Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
#Innovation, #Management, #Policy, and #Sustainability. 🇫🇮 🇬🇧
Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski @lennartschada.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biology Leiden | Microbial biochemistry, synthetic biology, environmental sustainability
Diethard Mattanovich @dmattanovich.bsky.social Prof. of Microbial Biotechnology at BOKU University Vienna, Austria
metabolic engineering • synthetic biology • C1 biotechnology • yeast • home baking • art & science
Alvaro San Millan @sanmillan.bsky.social Plasmid biology, antimicrobial resistance plasmidlab.es
Christopher Whitford @chriiswh.bsky.social Engineering streptomycetes at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability
NNF Postdoctoral Fellow
Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/yw82k2cr
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
Dirk Tischler @dirktischler.bsky.social A working microbiologist ... interested in #oxidoreductases, #flavoproteins, #biocatalysis and #degradation of #xenobiotics by #actinomycetes, #naturalproduct, #biotransformation and #enzyme #catalysis
Hobby #ChemistsWhoCook
Ekaterina Kozaeva @katekozaeva.bsky.social NNF @Stanford BioX Postdoc @UCPH @StanfordBioE; Brophy lab #Microbes #Plants #Biosustainability #Startups Past: @cphbiosciphd @DTUbiosustain 🕊️#peace
Sheila I. Jensen @sheilaijensen.bsky.social Group leader for the Sustainable Microbial Applications group at DTU Biosustain. Sustainability, Synthetic biology, Biotechnology, Metabolic engineering, bacteria, Synbio