Vanessa Smilansky, PhD @vanessasmilansky.bsky.social Research Scientist | One Health | Biosecurity
https://onehealthdetection.com
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c4S3VY8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
CGUE 2026 @cgue2026.bsky.social Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes
October 5-10, 2026 - Sant Feliu de Guixol (Spain)
#Eukaryotes #Protists #Microbiology #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology #ComparativeGenomics #Protistology #CellBiology
Ramon Massana @rmassanam.bsky.social 
Maliheh Mehrshad @mehrshmali.bsky.social Multipartite parasitic interactions in the microbial world,
Phage co-infection studies (ERC_StG: MULTIPHAGE)
Wallenberg Academy Fellow
#curiosity_driven #microbiology_without_borders
www.bionomics-mmlab.com
Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social @JohanaProtists | Assistant Professor at Department of Marine Sciences University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez | MIC.Rott Lab | Protists | Symbioses in Marine Anaerobes | Microbial Interactions in Ciliates | www.microttlab.org | newPI
Florian Wollweber @florianwollweber.bsky.social Imaging Asgard archaea and other strange organisms @embl.org Grenoble | 🦠❄️🔬#teamtomo
embl.org/wollweber
Lauren Saunders @lsaunders.bsky.social Junior/Assistant Prof @COSHeidelberg
🐟🐟🐟🐟
Trapnell and Parichy lab alum
dev bio | zebrafish | neural crest | single cell genomics
(She/her)
Max Haase @maxhaase.bsky.social Chief Yeast Officer. Evolution, genomes, chromatin, cell cycle, centromeres, and kinetochore are scientific passions. PhD w/ Jef Boeke, PostDoc w/ Andrea Musacchio @ MPI-Dortmund. 🇺🇸 (🧀->🗽) -> 🇩🇪
Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social PI @ Vilnius University Life Sciences Center 🦠🧬🌳🌍🐾📈.
Enthusiast of orthomyxos (& other (-)ssRNA viruses), RNA virus discovery, evolution & ecology, genomic epidemiology, data-vis, matplotlib.
EMBO installation grantee.
evogytis.github.io
Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social Cell biologist excited about autophagy, quality control, evolution, and membrane trafficking. Reads and thinks about academic mentoring, equality & diversity. https://ydagdas-lab.github.io/Lab-Website/
Luke Hillary @lukehillary.bsky.social Genomics & qPCR surveillance of soils, sludge & sewage 🏞️💩😷 | RNA viruses, AMR genes & mobile elements in environmental microbiomes | Research Fellow @bangor.ac.uk | Building the evidence base for wastewater-informed public health in Wales 🏴
Anna Schrecengost @annaschreck.bsky.social postdoc at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography studying marine anaerobic ciliates & their prokaryotic symbionts | she/her
Rory Craig @rorycraig.bsky.social Interested in mobile DNA and genome evolution, mostly working with eukaryotic algae.
Lecturer in Genomics at the University of Melbourne.
Julia Frunzke @frunzkelab.bsky.social Professor at Forschungszentrum Jülich and HHU Düsseldorf. Phage-host interaction, regulatory networks, metabolic engineering, SPP 2330
Jiménez-Ruiz Lab @jimenezruizlab.bsky.social Parasitologist @ LMU Munich | Chair of Experimental Parasitology | Exploring non-histone methylation in Toxoplasma gondii and beyond | #Methylation #Parasitology #MolecularBiology
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/
Dan Portik @dportik.bsky.social Industry bioinformatics scientist. Long-read metagenomics & methylation, and previously phylogenomics & frog/lizard evolution.
🦠 🐸 🦎 🧬
Free time: climbing 🧗, curling 🥌, and plants 🪴🌵.
Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social Junior Professor of Soil Microbial Interactions, University of Tübingen, Germany
Frederik Schulz @fmschu.bsky.social 
Jens Hör @jenshoer.bsky.social Molecular Principles of RNA Phages | Junior Professor @uni-wuerzburg.de | Group Leader @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social
Milan Gerovac @gerovac.bsky.social 
David Needham @animalkewls.bsky.social Marine microbial ecologist, needhamgroup.de
Lauren Queiss @lqueiss.bsky.social Fascinated by viruses, virus-virus interactions, & all things EM 🔬
@mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
#Virus #Vesicles #Microscopy #Microbes #Bacteria #Archaea #Protists
Vandepoele lab @vandepoelelab.bsky.social Vandepoele lab @ VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology | www.vandepoelelab.be | ERC Adv multiCODE
EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social Posts about jobs, conferences, etc. from the Evolution Directory (EvolDir) mailing list https://evoldir.net, run by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social
Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social Marine evolutionary ecology, genomics and restoration at GEOMAR Kiel, Germany's Ocean Institute. Fascinated with ocean life, its adaptation and protection. Focus Baltic Sea & other world areas. Pet species cod, seagrass, comb jellies, phytoplankton
Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social Developing data intensive computational methods • PI @ Seoul National University 🇰🇷 • #FirstGen • he/him • Hauptschüler
Timothy Fuqua @timothyfuqua.bsky.social Postdoc in Claudia Bank’s group at the University of Bern. Editor for the Journal of Molecular Evolution (JME). How do novel traits and functions emerge and evolve?
He/him 🏳🌈
timothyfuqua.com
Geoff McFadden @fad1.bsky.social Identified the apicoplast in 1996. Coasting ever since.
Jeroen Meijer @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social postdoc at Viral Ecology and Omics group, @microverse.bsky.social @uni-jena.de. Phages, metagenomics, evolutionary modeling, microbial communities, kendo.
Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Marine Biology and Ecology, University of Miami's Rosenstiel School. 
fischerlab.bsky.social @fischerlab.bsky.social Explorer of the viral universe. Advocate of exotic microbes.
@larsenieff.bsky.social @larsenieff.bsky.social Aquatic microbial ecology, marine viruses, Host-Virus interactions.
Postdoctoral fellow at @mioceanologie.bsky.social
Former Postdoc at @biologytechnion.bsky.social in the Lindell Lab.
Former PhD Student at @sbroscoff.bsky.social
Carole Duchene @caroleduchene.bsky.social Algae enthusiast! Post-doc at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
@avw12-banyuls.bsky.social @avw12-banyuls.bsky.social 12th edition of the Aquatic Virus Workshop - May 5-9, 2024 in Banyuls-sur-Mer (France)
Hüsna Öztoprak @huesnaoeztoprak.bsky.social 🔬 Postdoc fascinated by the weird and wonderful world of protists. Exploring genome evolution and metabolic pathways.
Bookworm | Lemon dessert aficionado | Reality TV enthusiast
Here for science, stories & dessert ✨
Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com Exploring the wonders of microbiology with reviews and commentaries from across the field. Brought to you by your curious editors! 🔬✨
https://nature.com/nrmicro/
L. Felipe Benites @lfelipeb.bsky.social Mino Postdoctoral Fellow at the @setiinstitute.bsky.social | Gardener and Evolutionary Biologist | Astrobiology | Virus evolution | Children's book author | Experimental musician | Brasileiro.
https://lfbenites.com/
EMBLtrec @embltrec.bsky.social An expedition to study coastal ecosystems and their response to the environment, from molecules to communities
Daniel Brady Mills @danbmills.bsky.social Lecturer in Biosphere-Geosphere Interactions, University of Leeds
www.danielbradymills.com
Fabian Wittmers @fabianwittmers.bsky.social Scientist || Marine Biologist
BIOS-SCOPE
Postdoc at Oregon State University in the Giovannoni Lab, working on DOM utilisation in SAR202 bacteria.
Previously: Doctoral Student, single-cell genomics (Worden Lab)
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/
Corina Brussaard @brussaard7.bsky.social Prof Marine Virus Ecology
NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
& Univ Amsterdam- C Colin Davenport @colindaven.bsky.social Bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics, nextflow and sequencing.
Andreas Sjödin @druvus.bsky.social Microbial genomics and forensics, Metagenomics, Francisella, Long-read seq, AI
Chris Bellas @cmbellas.bsky.social Environmental virology, metagenomics, pangenomes, endogenous viruses in protists, Polinton-like viruses. University of Innsbruck
Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social sessional prof at chinese univ of hong kong (cuhk), alumni chn (fka beijing) agric univ & ubc. phylogenetics, computational molecular evolution sishuowang2022.wordpress.com
Isa Wilkie @iwilkie.bsky.social PhD candidate in marine microbial ecology and bioinformatics 🌊🦠💻
At the department of Molecular Ecology in the MPI for marine microbiology || #FirstGen || she/her
Luis Orellana (Coto) @cotoorellana.bsky.social Microbial Ecology and Evolution | Investigating microbes through the eyes of ones and zeros
Group Leader @ Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
🇨🇱→🇺🇸→🇩🇪 #Fulbright #ERCStG
EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) provides open biological data resources and tools, and performs basic research in computational biology. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/
SciLifeLab @scilifelab.se 🇸🇪 Sweden's national center for molecular biosciences
👩🔬 Infrastructure with unique technologies and expertise
👥 Research community
🥼 Life science 🌱
💻 Often data-driven
https://www.scilifelab.se/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/scilifelab/
Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, Inst. Evol. Biol. (CSIC, Barcelona). Invertebrate genomics, trying to understand how animals colonised land (and also caves). www.metazomics.com
Katharina Hoff @katharinahoff.bsky.social Genome annotation geek at University of Greifswald, always interested in friendly scientific collaboration. Developer of BRAKER, GALBA, MakeHub and other Gaius-Augustus tools.
Ben Jenkins @benkinsjenkins.bsky.social Molecular mechanisms of endosymbiosis | Herchel Smith fellow @camwallerlab @oxfordbiology | 🦠 Paramecium bursaria | 🪸 Aiptasia
Harriet Alexander @nekton4plankton.bsky.social biological oceanographer | bioinformatics enthusiast | data and twin wrangler | https://alexanderlabwhoi.github.io/
assistant scientist @ WHOI | she / her
👩🏽🔬🧬🦠🌊🏳️🌈
twitter archive: https://halexand.github.io/old_tweets/
Hanna Johannesson @hannajohannesson.bsky.social Professor Bergianus at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences/Stockholm University. Interested in fungal and evolutionary biology.
Mahwash Jamy @mjamy.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist interested in protist diversity and evolution. Postdoc at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. 
Adriana Lopes @lopessantosadriana.bsky.social Latina, Carioca, 1st Gen college student, plankton ecologist, fascinated with Protists, Lead-PI of GeekLab, Assoc. Prof University of Oslo
@biovitenskap.bsky.social & apprentice of ritmista at Oslo Sambaskole!
@samba_geek
https://the-geek-lab.netlify.app/
Jennah E Dharamshi @jennahed.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist | VR postdoctoral researcher @uuuniversity & non-stipendiary EMBO fellow/visiting researcher at The Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) | microbial evolution, symbioses, host-symbiont interactions, multicellularity, protists
Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social Official account of the Evolution Meetings
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
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/
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/
Simonetta Gribaldo @sgribaldo.bsky.social Evolutionary microbiologist. Head of lab at Institut Pasteur, Paris. Microbial diversity and evolution. Phylogenomics, Tree of Life, Envelopes, Methanogens.
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/evolutionary-biology-of-the-microbial-cell/
Jürgen Strassert @strassert.bsky.social interested in microbial eukaryotes; #protists #chytrids
https://www.tu.berlin/en/umbio/research/working-groups/group-strassert
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.
🪸 🔬 🧫
@ehehenberger.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social 
Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, the journal of the International Society of Protistologists, publishes original research on all aspects of #protists.
Matthieu Legendre @puffy-virus.bsky.social 
Varsha Mathur @varshamathur.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow @univienna | Previously EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow, JRF Brasenose College, Oxford Biology | protists/parasites/organelles 🔬🧬
Ioana Brännström @ioanabrannstrom.bsky.social lichen research, martial arts, dogs
Luis Javier Galindo @luisjagago.bsky.social Ramón y Cajal Research fellow at the University of Granada. Evolution and protists!
Vasily Zlatogursky @zlatogursky.bsky.social Protistology whatever it means. Views are mine
Raphael Gollnisch @rgollnisch.bsky.social Evolutionary genetics of calcifying protists
Postdoc at University of Oxford
Julie Boisard @protistsforthewin.bsky.social Protists are the best
ICM, Molevol, Stairs Lab
Uppsala University, Sweden
Genome Architecture in Early-Diverging Eukaryotes 🦠🧬
julieboisard.github.io 💻
DEEMteam_Orsay @deemteam.bsky.social Diversity, Ecology and Evolution of Microbes (DEEM) team. Posts by David Moreira. #treeoflife #evolution
Paris, France
https://www.deemteam.fr/en/
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social How did single cells become animals? We study animal's closest unicellular relatives to reconstruct the origin of animal life. #Multicellularity
https://www.multicellgenome.com
Jolien van Hooff @jvhooff.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Laboratory of Microbiology | Wageningen University & Research
Evolution of genomes & protein complexes | eukaryotic origins & diversity. 
Anna Karnkowska @ankarn.bsky.social Fascinated by microbial eukaryotes diversity, ecology & evolution.
PI at Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw.
x.com/ania_karnkowska
#ProtistsOnSky
Kenneth Dumack @dumack.bsky.social Aquatic Ecosystem Analyses 🦠 Protists and their interactions.
http://kennethdumack.de
Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social Protists, microscopy, biophysics, evolution. Interested in how cells control shape and movement https://www.benlarson.org
Natura in minimis maxima
Asst Prof, RPI | Postdoc, UCSF, Wallace Marshall | PhD, UCBerkeley, Nicole King | BA, Physics, Reed College
Biology and Ecology of Abundant Protists (BEAP) Lab @beaplab.bsky.social The BEAP Lab is at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) in Barcelona. Our goal is to culture and then characterize the cell biology, behavior and ecosystem relevance of abundant protists. PI: Daniel J. Richter. Web: https://www.beaplab.org/
@socialprotist.bsky.social @socialprotist.bsky.social 
Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Prof) at the University of Bath. Exploring all things microbiomes and protist diversity/evolution. 🧬🔬🦀
https://theholtlab.com
Sergio Muñoz-Gómez @sergiophyceae.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Purdue University | Evolution of Cells, Symbionts, & Organelles | ecsolab.com
Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social Evolutionary cell biology @EMBL
evonuclab.org
Daan Speth @daanspeth.bsky.social Computational microbiologist. Senior scientist at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at.
Microbial ecology, mostly of nitrogen cycle microbes, and data driven physiology.
Maintainer of the GlobDB genome database https://globdb.org
European Virus Bioinformatics Center @evbc.bsky.social Bringing together the excellence of virology and bioinformatics.
Tools: http://bit.ly/evbctools
Impressum: https://evbc.uni-jena.de/impressum/
Uri Neri @urineri.bsky.social Meta/viromics.
RNA virology, Archaeal viruses, Linux and FOSS.
Currently a postdoc at the Joint Genome Institute (formerly at TAU)
Curtis Suttle @virosphere.bsky.social Purveyor of the Virosphere.
Professor Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Microbiology & Immunology, Botany, and the Inst for the Oceans & Fisheries - UBC
https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/curtissuttle 
Courtney Stairs @cstairs.bsky.social Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University || Anaerobes, mitochondria, evolution || #ERC_stg #tango2uppsala www.thelabupstairs.online
Ramiro Logares @ramalok.bsky.social Scientist @icmcsic.bsky.social #Barcelona: aquatic microbes, ecosystems, genomics, evolution, AI, bioinformatics & SciFi 🇪🇸🇦🇷 https://log-lab.barcelona
Megan Sorensen @messorensen.bsky.social Interested in the evolution of endosymbiosis, especially those that photosynthesise. And more broadly in evolutionary microbiology, symbiosis, organelles and protists.
Assistant Professor at CeMESS, University of Vienna.
Dacks Lab (Evolutionary Cell Biology) @dackslabecb.bsky.social This is the professional account for the Evolutionary Cell Biology lab of Prof. Joel Dacks. 
Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social deep-time evolution, phylogenetics, anaerobic protists, the tree of Life. Science depends on vigorous respectful debate and evidence-based reasoning. I like cats. This is my personal page and what I post here has nothing to do with my employer.
Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology @ WUR 🇳🇱 | Evolutionary microbiology | Exploring the Tree of Life | Archaea aficionado | Symbiotic interactions | husband, father, cat-person, eternal house renovator, secretly a Jedi knight
Alex de Mendoza @alexdemendoza.bsky.social Evolutionary epigenomics ( eukaryotes / Transcription Factors / Transposable Elements / DNA methylation ) @ QMUL (London).
Lab website: https://www.demendozalab.com/
Laura Eme @lauraeme.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist interested in the origin and early diversification of eukaryotes. Phylogenetics/(meta)genomics. Protists & Archaea. Reseach Director at Uni Paris-Saclay (France)/Associate Prof. Uni of Rhode Island (USA)
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
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