HiTSeq 2026 Conference @hitseq.bsky.social HiTSeq is a track at the ISMB-ECCB conference focused on algorithms and methods for the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data.
Washington, DC, USA. July 12-16, 2026
Martin Muggli @mmuggli.bsky.social Bioinformatics, NLP, compilers, hardware, aviation, cycling
Ilia Minkin @minkinpark.bsky.social Research Associate @ UConn | Algorithms, Genomics, Python, C++
F. Kumara Mastrorosa @fkma.bsky.social Postdoctoral scholar in the Eichler Lab at UW Genome Sciences. Interested in Mendelian disorders, long-read sequencing and structural variations 🇮🇹 🇪🇺
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Nae-Chyun Chen @naechyun-chen.bsky.social A computer guy who finds biology & genomics amazing. I work at Exai Bio.
James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social Writing a book about horizontal gene transfer and non treelike evolution. Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology. Pangenomes. https://profmcinerney.substack.com/ 🇮🇪 https://mol-evol.github.io/
Struan Grant @struangrant.bsky.social Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics, UPenn/CHOP🧬. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2025-5302. Views my own. 🏴🇺🇸
@luizirber.bsky.social @luizirber.bsky.social 
adelaide tovar @adel-aide.bsky.social genetics, genomics, and gossip • NHGRI #NIHMOSAIC K99/R00 fellow at Michigan, formerly at MIT/UNC
https://adelaidetovar.com
Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social Dad, husband, CNN anchor, author, doorman to three dogs and a cat.
Karsten Suhre @ksuhre.bsky.social Passionate about #GWAS #Metabolomics #Proteomics #Glycomics #Epigenomics, Professor @WeillCornell
Medicine - Qatar, Blog on http://metabolomix.com, http://suhre.fr
Simone Drucker @simonedrucker.bsky.social END MAGA FOREVER 🕊️ Landscape Architect 💚 Designing Landscapes & Gardens in Southern California and beyond
Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social Dad. Scientist at VIB. Bioinformatics postdoc. Sequencing technologies enthusiastic. Geneticist. He/him.
Todd J. Treangen @treangen.bsky.social Computational tools for microbial genomics, metagenomics, & public health 🧬🦠🔎
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Rice University 🦉💻
Treangen Lab website: www.treangenlab.com
Tom Sasani @tomsasani.bsky.social Incoming assistant professor (Jan. 2027) in the Genetics Dept. @ UGA.
website: sasanilab.org
Arang Rhie @arhie.bsky.social 
Chris Saunders @ctsa.bsky.social Rare disease and cancer analysis models for sequencing data. Art school survivor. Views my own.
Sergey Koren @sergek.bsky.social Scientist at NHGRI/NIH. Mapping complete genomes, finished a couple, working on more 🐮🐟🐒. Posts are my own opinion. 
Dan Portik @dportik.bsky.social Industry bioinformatics scientist. Long-read metagenomics & methylation, and previously phylogenomics & frog/lizard evolution.
🦠 🐸 🦎 🧬
Free time: climbing 🧗, curling 🥌, and plants 🪴🌵.
Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social Professor of CS @ University of Maryland. Proud Rust advocate! I ♥ science & compiled, statically-typed programming languages! Views are my own. Tech stack: https://github.com/rob-p/tech-stack.
Michael Eberle @meberle.bsky.social Bioinformatics scientist interested in rare disease, variant calling, population genetics and more
Jennifer Posey @poseypod.bsky.social Physician-scientist, Adult genetics, Human genetics research, Baylor College of Medicine. Thoughts expressed = my own.
Chris Miller @chrismiller.science I study cancer at Washington University in St Louis. Cancer Genomics, Bioinformatics, Data Viz, Tumor Evolution, AML, Immunotherapy, Irreverent humor 🧬 🖥️ mostly @chrisamiller on other platforms
Medhat Mahmoud @medhat.bsky.social Postdoc, HGSC, Baylor college of medicine. Interests: Bioinformatics | SVs | SNVs | comparative genomics | data science- G Genome in a Bottle Consortium @genomeinabottle.bsky.social The Genome in a Bottle Consortium develops reference materials, reference data, and reference methods needed to benchmark human genome sequencing
Genome Research @genomeresearch.bsky.social A leading peer-reviewed genomics journal. https://genome.cshlp.org
Submit: http://submit.genome.org
Aaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social Origins and consequences of genome mutation; software for genomic discovery.
Prof. and Chair of Human Genetics at U. of Utah.
https://www.genetics.utah.edu/
http://quinlanlab.org
Benedict Paten @benedictpaten.bsky.social Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Associate Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
Philipp Rescheneder @philres1.bsky.social Bioinformatician at @nanopore
Tobias Rausch @trausch.bsky.social Genomics, Bioinformatics.
github.com/tobiasrausch
Dario Cantù @cantulab.bsky.social Biologist of plants and microorganisms, Prof at #UCDavis
🍇🧬 Everything Vitis and associates
https://cantulab.github.io
https://www.grapegenomics.com
Ivan Liachko @ivanliachko.bsky.social Scientist, father, founder/CEO of PhaseGenomics; opinions are my own and probably not the position of the company.
Danny Miller, MD, PhD @danrdanny.bsky.social CODA. Dad. Interested in genetics, long-read sequencing, and ultramarathon running. Assistant Professor at University of Washington. The command line is my happy place. https://millerlaboratory.com
Daniel MacArthur @dgmacarthur.bsky.social Genomics, big data, open science, diversity. Director of the Centre for Population Genomics, focused on building a more equitable future for genomic medicine. Opinions my own.
Wolfram Höps @wolfram-hops.bsky.social Postdoc at RadboudUMC. Likes bioinformatics, long reads and all kinds of genomic variants
Peter Sudmant @psudmant.bsky.social Sudmantlab.org - Assistant professor Berkeley
Stephen Montgomery @sbmontgom.bsky.social Stephen Montgomery. Stanford Medicine Professor of Pathology, Genetics, Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, Computer Science.
Sporadic on social media.
Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University. http://schatz-lab.org- E Egor Dolzhenko @egor-dolzhenko.bsky.social Bioinformatics scientist at PacBio. Opinions are my own.
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins. stephaniehicks.com
Armin Töpfer @armintoepfer.com Husband. Parent. Dr sc @ETH. Bioinformagician. Father of @PacBio HiFi. C++ Purist. Geek. Digital Artist. Electronic music. Speaks in memes. Opinions are my own!
Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of BME, CS, and Biostats at Johns Hopkins Univ., tennis player, @StevenSalzberg1 on Twitter, lab: salzberg-lab.org, Substack blog: stevensalzberg.substack.com
Claudia Bank @cbank.bsky.social Associate Prof. @unibern.bsky.social in Theoretical Ecology and Evolution | she/her | Views are my own
Heidi Rehm @heidirehm.bsky.social Genomic medicine researcher; chief genomics officer at MGH; clinical lab director at @broadinstitute
Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis
Work: phylogenomics & microbiomes; wildlife and aquatic microbiology; #openscience;
Other: #birds; baseball; T1D
Lab phylogenomics.me
Pics jonathaneisen.smugmug.com
Links linktr.ee/jonathaneisen
TED go.ted.com/6WPm
Mitch Bekritsky @mitch-bekritsky.bsky.social Bioinformatics team lead @Illumina, dad, ATLien. All views are my own.
Alex Hoischen @ahoischen.bsky.social Genomic technologies: WES/WGS, long-read sequencing, optical genome mapping, somatic mutations;
Immuno-genomics: rare diseases; immunodeficiencies; inborn errors of immunity; clonal hematopoiesis
https://shorturl.at/MxQ7O
https://www.immuno-genomics.com- P Christos Proukakis @proukakis.bsky.social decided to defect from the other one. Professor of neurology and neurogenetics. Science and maybe politics. Strictly personal opinions obviously
Graham Erwin @grahamerwin.bsky.social Asst. Professor, Baylor College of Medicine. Previously Stanford and UW–Madison. We use molecules and genomes to understand repetitive DNA sequences. #FirstGenAcademic ErwinLab.org
PacBio @pacbio.bsky.social Our mission is to enable the promise of genomics to better human health by creating the world’s most advanced sequencing technologies. 
Andrew Carroll @acarroll.bsky.social Product lead Genomics Google Research
Christine Beck @christinebeck.bsky.social Associate Professor of Genetics and Genome Sciences at UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory
Transposons, Structural Variation, Genomics, Gardening, Loud Music, Mom
Adam Ameur @adameur.bsky.social Genomics R&D, long-read sequencing and bioinformatics - with focus on human/medical applications. Associate professor at the SciLifeLab National Genomics Infrastructure (NGI) Sweden and Uppsala University
Brent Pedersen @brent-p.bsky.social dad
creativity in: genomics, bioinformatics and solving problems
languages: rust, nim, python, go, c, bash, awk, js
Fritz Sedlazeck @sedlazeck.bsky.social 
Jean Monlong @jmonlong.bsky.social Human genomics researcher at INSERM in Toulouse, France
Structural variant, pangenomes
https://jmonlong.github.io/
Xian Chang @xian-chang.bsky.social Bioinformatics postdoc at INRAE in Toulouse, France.
Working on data structures and algorithms for pangenome graphs
Zixuan (Eleanor) Zhang @elezzx.bsky.social Postdoc @UPenn working with Drs. Brielin Brown, Bogdan Pasaniuc, and Michael Gandal. Statistical genetics, functional architecture, single cell data. https://zixuanzhang.github.io
Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social Hiring PhDs/Postdocs CGRLab.github.io | Assistant Professor, Data Science and AI division, Chalmers & University of Gothenburg| SciLifeLab | Formerly at JHU-Langmead, UNIL-Dessimoz, WUR
Dani León-Periñán @danilexn.bsky.social Cells talk; I build tools to listen to them @mdc-berlin.bsky.social
Computational biologist • Occasional composer and pianist • he/him
Opinions are my own.
CleanTechnica @cleantechnica.bsky.social Covering solar energy, wind energy, and electric vehicles for almost 20 years!
Amanda Randles 🧪⚛️ 👩🔬 @profamandarandles.bsky.social Director of the Duke University Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation. Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Research in HPC and digital twins for health.
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.
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
Pierre Peterlongo @pierrepeterlongo.bsky.social Inria Senior researcher.
Head of the https://team.inria.fr/genscale/ at Inria and Irisa.
Algorithmics for sequencing data analyses, genomics and metagenomics.
Katy Munson @zhaneel779.bsky.social Long-read sequencing specialist, crafter, mom, geek
Karyn Meltz Murphy @karynotype.bsky.social Come for the science. Stay for the snark.
Shunhua Han @shunhuahan.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina. I work on finding challenging variants. Views are my own.
https://shunhuahan.github.io/
Jazlyn Mooney @jazlynmooney.bsky.social Gabilan Assistant Prof. @ USC | Dept of Quantitative and Computational Biology | 👩🏽💻🏃🏽♀️🏋🏽♀️⛹🏽♀️🌯🍔📚🎧 | burqueña 🌵☀️ | Proud Lobo 🐺 | she,her | Views are mine
https://mooney-lab.github.io/
Pille Hallast @pille-hallast.bsky.social 
Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social Director of bioinformatics at AstraZeneca. On my way to helping 1 million people learn bioinformatics. Educator, Biotech, single cell. Also talks about leadership.
Grab my new book https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.kit.com/wtdt_bioinformatics
Maria Nattestad 🧬💻 @omgenomics.com Co-founder OMGenomics Labs. Creator of Circa https://circa.omgenomics.com, Ribbon, YouTube.com/omgenomics. Worked on DeepVariant+DeepConsensus at Google.
Adam M Novak @adamnovak.graphs.vg Bioinformatics Programmer at @ucscgenomics.bsky.social working on #pangenomics.
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5828-047X
Gavin Sherlock @gsherloc.bsky.social Geneticist whose lab does experimental evolution, using yeast as a model. Because being a footballer was never going to work out, due to lack of talent.
PI of SGD and CGD
ORCID: 0000-0002-1692-4983
Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp} @curiouscoding.nl Postdoc on high troughput bioinformatics @ KIT Karlsruhe;
IMO, ICPC, Xoogler, Rust, road-cycling, hiking, wild camping, photography
Gamze Gürsoy @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social Department of Applied Math and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge; g2lab.org
Luca Pinello @lucapinello.bsky.social Computational methods for epigenetic, CRISPR genome editing and single-cell genomics. Associate Professor at MGH / Harvard Medical School. http://pinellolab.org
Brenton Graveley @graveley.bsky.social Scientist, Husband, Father, Potter, Athlete, bengal cat lover, Great Dane addict, dungeons and dragons fanatic. Hartford, CT
Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Associate Director Institute for Systems Genomics, UConn Health
David Bass @davidb256.bsky.social he/him | PhD student doing computational genomics at JHU Dept of Bio and CCB | TRU-UE Local 197 member | quizbowler, PACE member | UVA alumnus
Sergey Nurk @sergeynurk.bsky.social Principal Bionformatician
@nanopore. Ex: Postdoctoral fellow @ NIH; Researcher @ CAB. Views are my own; #StandWithUkraine Support Ukraine!
Mikhail Kolmogorov @mishakolmogorov.bsky.social Tenure-track Stadtman Investigator at NIH/NCI. I like computational/cancer/metagenomics. The views are my own.
Arjun Biddanda @aabiddanda.github.io Statistical and population geneticist | Postdoc @ JHU Biology | COYS | Costco enthusiast | aabiddanda.github.io
Nils Homer @nilshomer.com I write software for Biologists. Founder @fulcrumgenomics, Bioinformatician, Computer Scientist, Coder, Father of 2xGirls. Opinions are my own.
Camille Marchet ⚡ @camillemrcht.bsky.social Researcher in @BonsaiSeqBioinfo
Lille, France. Bioinformatics, data-structures & DNA/RNA.
Tony Cox @coxtonyj.bsky.social Bioinformatics, string algorithms, DNA sequence analysis. Formerly Solexa/Illumina, bioinformatics consulting at genomerics.com, now quantum error correction at @riverlane.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/coxtonyj/
Rafael Irizarry @rafalab.bsky.social Applied statistician. I tweet data-driven observations, data science educational materials, academic research updates, and the occasional joke.
James Bonfield @jbonfield.bsky.social Walker, archer, and volunteer woodland warden by weekend, and bioinformatics software engineer and general geek by weekday.
My favourite prime is 15551, my favourite colour is, obviously, octarine, and I love nothing more than being immersed in nature.
Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social Professor at Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering and CS, Director Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Research Director (Strategy and Partnerships) Data Science and AI Institute
Ben Raphael @braphael.bsky.social Graduate Class of 1991 Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Alex Dobin @alexdobin.com Dad, Homelab, Engineering Manager @ Microsoft
Francisco De La Vega @ribozyme.bsky.social Geneticist & Computational Biologist. All opinions are my own.
BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social Bioinformatics 🧬🖥️🧪
#DATABASE OUP Editor-in-Chief;
#PLOS Comp Biol Education Sect. Editor;
#OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenData;
friend of @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social,
@abinstitute.bsky.social, @mon-bug.bsky.social
- I am 🇨🇦
Gary Schroth @genomics-guy.bsky.social Genomics, Cell Biology, Technology, Innovation, Bay Area Sports, Good Food, Progressive Politics, Travel, Truth and Dogs.
All opinions are my own.
Liz Worthey @lizworthey.bsky.social #AssociateProf #CompBio #Omics #WomenInScience #LGBTQ+Ally #Scottish #PrecisionMedicine #HealthCare #MDx #ME/CFS #RareDisease #Informatics #SciFiNerd #LongCovidAffected
sites.uab.edu/cgds/ she/her
Andrew Jaffe @aejaffe.bsky.social Data Science, Computational Biology, Biotechnology, Neuropsychiatry
biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social Reluctant
Ryan Layer @ryanlayer.bsky.social Making genomics faster layerlab.org