Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social Interested in plant pathology, fungal development, cell biology. I study a disease called rice blast and work at The Sainsbury Laboratory. Views my own.
Javier Pinto @javo-pinto.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist — Manchester Fungal Infection Group
Investigating potential genetic factors governing sexual compatibility in Aspergillus fumigatus, to understand the mechanisms controlling mating choices that contribute to fungal adaptation.
MEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social A hub-based global conference on Microbial Ecology and Evolution.
August 3-5, 2026
Abstract submission and registration will be announced soon.
The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk A proud Manchester institution with teaching, research and social responsibility at the heart of everything we do. 
Sam Hemmings @samhemmings.bsky.social PhD student | Fisher Lab | Imperial
🍄Interested in fungal AMR, genetics, ecology and air quality🍄
Wendy Thompson @wendythedentist.bsky.social Clinical senior lecturer (primary dental care), University of Manchester. Chair of preventing AMR and infection, FDI World Dental Federation. CGDent lead on AMS. Trustee of The AMR Narrative.
Thomas House @tah-sci.com Professor of Mathematical Sciences, trying to take an Internet detox at the moment.
https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/thomas.house/about.html
Tracy Palmer @proftracypalmer.bsky.social We work on the type VII secretion system and are interested in Gram positive competitive mechanisms.
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
Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social Senior Permanent Scientist at the Spanish Mycology Reference Lab.
Interested in learning and sharing knowledge about science, research and academic life.
Liz Ballou @balloulab.bsky.social Ballou Lab at the MRC CMM, University of Exeter. How do fungi make different shapes and cause disease? Obsessed with microscopes. 
Aaron Vogan @fungage-lab.bsky.social Researches fungal evolution/genetics/genomics. Associate professor at the University of Uppsala, investigating accessory genomes and giant TEs in Fungi.
Bertuzzi Lab @bertuzzilab.bsky.social Working on Aspergillus and Mucorales interactions with the respiratory epithelium - Manchester Fungal Infection Group - University of Manchester
Fungal One Health and Antimicrobial Resistance (F1AMR) Network @f1amr-network.bsky.social https://www.fungalamr.org/
Takanori Furukawa @takanorifurukawa.bsky.social Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at Teesside University | Fungal Infections | Antifungal Resistance | Epigenetics
UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social Official feed of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) providing regular news updates on the work of the organisation.
Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social Green Party member of the UK House of Lords. Party leader 2012-2016.
There are enough resources on this planet to look after people and nature, if we share fairly.
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16
Dan Weaver @danweaver1.bsky.social Research associate at the NIHR Centre for Precision Approaches to Combatting AMR, Manchester. Microbiology, NGS, cycling, and trying to climb things. She/her.
Jasmine Ono @jtono.bsky.social Yeast match-maker. BBSRC Discovery Fellow and Assistant Prof at the Uni of Nottingham.
Harry Chown @chownbioinf.bsky.social Research Associate, Imperial College London 🍄 Fungal genomics and bioinformatics
Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social mum of two+microbiologist. Navigating career in science post kids 👩🏽🔬
Currently - PDRA Manchester uni, MERMan research group - bacterial mutation rates and DNA repair 🦠
Personal projects underway - Bdellovibrio: evolution, ecology and agriculture 🌱
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social Imaging Scientist @mrccmm MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at UoExeter. Applying and resourcing MYCOscopy to understand human fungal pathogens - always keen to chat
Michelle Momany @mcmomany.bsky.social Fungal Biologist studying Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus nidulans, antifungal resistance, septin cytoskeleton, septin evolution, and spore dormancy. Views expressed here are my own.
Eveline Snelders @evelinesnelders.bsky.social Associate professor @ Wageningen University & Research, NL | Antifungal resistance | Fungal genetics 🍄 | http://FUNgalSNELDERSlab.org
Emile Gluck-Thaler @mycomile.bsky.social Understanding fungal interactions using genes, genomes and Starships 🧬🍄🚀Evolutionary Biologist and Asst Prof @UWMadison's Dept. of Plant Pathology | he/him |
plantpath.wisc.edu/faculty/emile-gluck-thaler/
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/
Ben Auxier @benauxier.bsky.social Fungal geneticist interested in how fungi recognize themselves, and each other. Asst. Professor at WUR
Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com Nature Communications is an open access journal publishing high-quality research in all areas of the biological, physical, chemical, clinical, social, and Earth sciences.
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TARGetAMR @target-amr.bsky.social TARGetAMR is a UK-based research network funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) with the primary goal of using genomics to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Chris Knight @knightjar.bsky.social Evolutionary genetics: microbes, microbial communities, models; academic at the University of Manchester
Mat Upton @matupton.bsky.social Microbiology, antibiotic discovery, academic & chief scientific officer.
Prof Paula Salgado @pssalgado.bsky.social Structural Microbiologist studies molecular details of C. difficile at Newcastle University, UK. (she/her) Interested in science, politics, theatre, and so much more. Views my own. https://salgadolab.org/
Célia Souque @celiasouque.bsky.social Evolution | Genomics | AMR
ECDC EUPHEM fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Previously seen: Harvard Medical School
Currently obsessed with plasmids 🦠
Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
Seána Duggan @seanaduggan.bsky.social Researcher investigating #Candida and #Staphylococcus co-infections @mrccmm.bsky.social, Deputy Editor-in-Chief #AccessMicrobiology, Dr. rer. nat, 🇮🇪🇩🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧(she/her)
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 
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social Infectious Diseases specialist doctor in London. Fungal disease researcher (UCL). Officially the 1st person to use word #Covid (according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Really). Personal views only.
Martin Hoenigl @martinhoenigl.bsky.social Tenure Track Prof for Translational Mycology, Medical University Graz, Austria; Past President ECMM.❤️for Clinical Mycology, ⬛⬜1909 ⚽️ Rams 🏈#StandwithUkraine
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Greg Hurst @greghurst.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, interested in the origins of biodiversity. Mostly research the evolutionary ecology of symbiotic interactions. Professor at U.of Liverpool, UK. Born at 332ppm.
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health @fbmh-uom.bsky.social The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at the University of Manchester.
Carol Munro @chitinette.bsky.social Aberdeen Fungal Group & Researcher Lead, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen 🏴
Co-founder & CSO Brigid Bio
Rebecca Shapiro @shapirorebecca.bsky.social Associate Prof @ U Guelph. Fungal genetics and functional genomics (she/her)
Anna Selmecki @annaselmecki.bsky.social Associate Professor of Microbiology UMN Twin Cities. Fungal pathogen research on genome instability, aneuploidy, polyploidy, and drug resistance. Dog mom. Fiddle player. T1D. First gen. 
Amelia Barber @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social Group leader at @fzborstel.bsky.social and professor at @uni-kiel.de.
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
Fungal pathoecology, antimicrobial resistance, and genome stuff.
Always up for an adventure or bike ride.
https://barber-lab.com
Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Portfolio’s high-quality products and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences is dedicated to serving the scientific community.
MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social Microbial sequencing made simple.
Whole Genome Sequencing + Metagenomics: http://microbesng.com
PlasmidSeq: http://plasmidsng.com 😊
Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org Evangelist for the study of evolution in action by everyone.
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Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social Sci-Comm | Researcher @kurzgesagt.org | she/her 🦠🧫🔬 | Tell your cat I said PSPSPSPS
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
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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.
Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social Head of the School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @ Uni Birmingham. Proud Scot. Oversaw a few Covid PCR tests
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 🇬🇧
Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social Royal Society University Research Fellow | University of Manchester | Evolution, symbiosis, metabolism
Jo Rhodes @drjorhodes.com Yoga bunny. Cake guru. Scientist by day. Assistant Professor at @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Interested in fungal ‘omics and One Health, evolutionary biology and popgen, epidemiology and promoting women in STEM
🏳️🌈- C Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social Ecology and evolution of microbial communities at the University of Manchester :) she/her
Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social microbiology // evolution // mobile genetic elements
🏫 University of Liverpool, UK
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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
Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social Reader (Associate Professor) in Microbiology at the University of Warwick, UK.
Biofilm, chronic infection and ancientbiotics.
https://www.youtube.com/@BreakingBiofilm
Danna Gifford @dannagifford.bsky.social PI and Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester. Microbial evolution.
https://dannagifford.com @MERManchester.bsky.social
Norman van Rhijn @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social Wellcome Trust Fellow at University of Manchester | Fungal infections | AMR | Antifungal dual-use | Focused on Climate Change and Epidemiology
Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social ID doctor and fungal enthusiast. #IDSky community builder. #TxID, global health, MedEd. @idjclub.bsky.social
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MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social Microbial Evolution Research at The University of Manchester
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social Microbial evolution / University of Manchester
Rolf Kümmerli @rkmicrobes.bsky.social Professor at University of Zurich, Microbiology, Evolution, Ecology, Microbial Interactions, Infections
Carolin Wendling @ccwendling.bsky.social Professor at LMU, all things phages, microbes, eco-evo, experimental evolution 
Ville Friman @frimanscience.bsky.social Professor in Microbiology at the University of Helsinki. Guitar in Insomnium. Honorary Fellow at the University of York and Honorary Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/microbial-ecology-and-evolution
Siobhán O'Brien @siderophile.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Trinity College Dublin. Microbial Ecology & Evolution. Eurovision fanatic. Mammy of two party animals. Probably awake. 🇮🇪- J Jo Fothergill @jojofoth.bsky.social
Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social Microbial ecology and evolution | Professor at University of Lausanne | Theory | Experiments | Egyptian
Rok Krašovec @rokkrasovec.bsky.social evolution admirer | mutation & drug resistance enthusiast | live-cell imaging fan 
Rowan Green @rowancallumg.bsky.social Postdoc studying viral social evolution with @asherleeks.bsky.social | previously @mermanchester.bsky.social | mutagenesis | bacteria | viruses | big R nerd 🧬🦠💻
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Will Smith @willpjsmith.bsky.social I love science! I study toxin interactions in microbes. Dad of two @wellcometrust Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow | All views my own | he/him | 🏳️🌈
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
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