Arren J. Liu @arrenliu.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow | Özçam Lab of Translational Microbiome & Immune Tolerance | Intersection of Synthetic Biology/Metabolic Engineering & Host-Microbiome Interactions
Katti Crakes @kcrakes.bsky.social Veterinary Anatomic Pathologist 🔬Assistant Professor at Univ of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | I study gut microbes and host metabolism 🦠
Nidhi Vijayan, PhD @nidhivijayan.bsky.social Love everything host-microbe
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Julie Maresca @micromaresca.bsky.social Microbiologist, micro-adventurer, micro-doodler. Too many projects, not enough time: phototrophy, built environment, some wastewater. 🚲🥾🧶🧪
Michael Quicho @michaelquicho.bsky.social Neurotoxin pharmacologist @ Abbvie | adjunct professor @ LATTC | former gut-brain researcher @ UCLA Hsiao Lab | 📍LA/OC
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.
Stephanie Orchanian @stephorch.bsky.social UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow studying the maternal gut microbiome
Elaine Hsiao @pipethero.bsky.social microbes, guts & brains at UCLA
www.hsiao.science
Christy Clutter, PhD @christyclutter.bsky.social Postdoc @ UofUtah. Immunologist, gut enthusiast, aspiring metabolism and omics nerd. Passionate about the intersection of food, climate and health. 🌎🔬
christyclutter.com 
Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social Moving to GW Fall 2026!
Genetic Novelty, PopGen, Genomics.
Editor at JEB and MBE.
Conferences 2026: SMBE
Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social Chief Science and Strategy Officer, openRxiv. Co-Founder, bioRxiv and medRxiv.
Reed Stubbendieck @bactereedia.bsky.social Microbiologist 🧫 | Asst. Prof. OKState | specialized/secondary metabolism | bacterial interactions | respiratory microbiomes | he/him | posts are my own |
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
Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. Microbes, evolution, and infectious disease.
Dad and husband.
barberlab.org
Judi Simcox @judisimcox.bsky.social Associate Professor @UWBiochem studying lipid signaling and regulation | HHMI FHS| co-Director Biotechnology Training Program | opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer
Balunas Research Group @balunaslab.bsky.social #natural_products #hostmicrobe #symbioses
University of Michigan
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Find us at http://balunaslab.org
Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social Associate Professor Tufts University
Ecology/evolution of microbes in food systems. Constant gardener. 
Kimberly Yazzie, PhD @kimberlyazzie.bsky.social Ecology and climate solutions | Assistant Professor @forestry.UBC.ca #UBCForestry Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship | Postdoc @ Stanford University | PhD @ University of Washington | Diné :: | @NASEMFordFellow | she/her | Personal account
Shai Bel (The Mucus Man) @mucusman.bsky.social The Bel Lab, boldly going where no one else bothers to. @erc.europa.eu funded lab. Opinions are my microbiota's. www.thebellab.com
Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social microbiome researcher | associate professor @isbscience.org | affiliate prof @uwbioe.bsky.social | ecology, evolution, and systems biology of 💩 🦠 | precision/personalized nutrition/medicine ⚕️ | 🏳️🌈 he/him | lab website: gibbons.isbscience.org
Sarah Pasqualetti @spasqualetti.bsky.social PhD Candidate in the Milligan-McClellan Lab at UConn studying microbes, plastics, and threespine stickleback. Owner of two little cats 🐱
Jack A Gilbert @gilbertjacka.bsky.social Microbial ecologist: EIC for mSystems Journal, cofounder of http://biomesense.com; President for AMI (http://appliedmicrobiology.org); Father, Scientist, Pilot.
Ask A Microbiologist @askamicrobiologist.bsky.social Get advice on anything bacterial, viral, or super weird and read what others are asking. 🦠🧫🧪
I'm Mo, your friendly Neighborhood Microbiologist! I'm here here to answer all your questions about microbes! 
A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social Professor of Ecosystem Data Science at @hifmb.bsky.social studying the ecology and evolution of microbes through high-resolution 'omics and #anvio
Drea Darby, Ph.D. @dreadarby.bsky.social I'm a pretty Fly Girl
Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Science
Host-microbe interactions in the 🍌🪰
|#firstgen | #BlackAFinStem |#Filipinx|🇵🇭✊🏽
Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social Scientist, Evolutionary Biologist & Entomologist / Ants / Genomes to Microbiomes / Professor & Curator at @Cornell / @CornellCALS / She/Her
Derrick Kamp @kampamycin.bsky.social they/he | Visualizing host-microbe interactions | Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Austin | derrickkamp.com
Jillian Lewis @jillianlewis.bsky.social UConn PhD candidate studying microbes + squid eggs 🦑
Scientist by training, swamp thing by nature
she/her 🍄🧶🥘🐸🧪🗺🌌🪻🧬🔬
Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social A grassroots movement turned non-profit organization with a mission to diversify the neurosciences by building a community that celebrates and empowers Black scholars and professionals in neuroscience-related fields.
linktr.ee/BlackInNeuro
KevinDKohl @kevindkohl.bsky.social I study the physiology and gut microbiome of wild vertebrates 🐸🐭💩🦠
Assoc. Professor at University of Pittsburgh - #QueerSTEM 🏳️🌈 #poly - he/him
Mónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social Mom. Coral reef scientist and environmentalist. Host-microbe interactions. Anthropocene coral holobionts. Diversity in STEM advocate. Former fencer. Diver. Sailor wannabe. medinalab.org, redcientificacol.org 🇨🇴, diversifyoceansciences.org, spawnwatch.org
Host Microbe interactions @hostmicrobelit.bsky.social Trying to keep up with the literature. Infection, microbiome, bioinformatics and multi-omics.
Diana Proctor @proctordm.bsky.social NIH Postdoc | Microbiome | Microbial Genomics
Conference on Beneficial Microbes @benmicrobesmtg.bsky.social The Conference on Beneficial Microbes. Since 2001, a meeting focused on host-microbe interactions. #BeneficialMicrobesMtg #BeneficialMicrobes10
Spencer Nyholm @spencernyholm.bsky.social University of Connecticut
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Symbiosis
Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social Cell adhesion, cytoskeletal regulation, Wnt signaling & wherever science leads us + wildflowers & my own idiosyncratic views. First gen college grad
Diversity, equity & Inclusion are core American Values
https://peiferlab.web.unc.edu
Biology OA @biologyoa.bsky.social Biology OA is open to all angles of life science and biotech 🦠🍄🧫🧪🔬🧬 #BioSky #MicroSky
https://www.linkedin.com/company/biologyoa/
Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social Associate Professor, MIT
Still thinking about the 10^9 mutations generated in your microbiome today.
Website: http://lieberman.science
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. 
BlackinCMDBio @blackincmdbio.bsky.social #BlackinCMDBio Check in to see what's developing! (Haha... get it) For the Black Cell, Molecular, and/or Developmental Biologist
Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social Associate Professor at @UCSF_BTS | @HHMINEWS HGF | | Loving membrane proteins every day https://www.wcoyotelab.com
Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering. Ph.D. Previously at Nature Methods. @rita_strack on the place formerly known as twitter.
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
Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social 🇿🇦🇳🇿🇺🇸Neuroscientist/amateur virologist. Professor and Director of the Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Utah. Molecular mechanisms of memory, repurposed transposons, and virus-like intercellular signaling. Personal views.
www.shepherdlab.org
Sam Lewis, Ph.D. @samlewis.bsky.social Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology, she/her, personal account, views do not reflect those of my employer.
Studying the flow of genetic information through mitochondrial networks.
https://www.thelewislab.org
Kevin Cox Jr @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow | Asst. Professor @ WashU & Asst. Member @ Danforth Center | Spatial Biology | Plant-microbe Interactions | Duckweed | YouTuber/Streamer | www.thecoxlab.org/
Dr. Nathan A Smith @drnathanasmith.bsky.social Neuroscientist, Martial Artist, and Mentor
Avery August @averyxaugust.bsky.social Immunologist, T cell biologist, Prof@Cornell, Selectah and Turntablist...Always curious.... every day I'm hustling...(re)tweets=/endorsement 🇧🇿 🇺🇸
Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social ✊🏾🧠 Founding President of #BlackInNeuro 🌍 📚 Neuroscience Professor 👩🏾🏫 #HBCUgrad ✨ International Invited Speaker 🇹🇹🇭🇹 ΔΣΘ🔺 she/her
Mary O'Riordan @drbadbug.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Michigan | views my own
ASM @asm.org ASM is a global community shaping the future of the microbial sciences to tackle some of the world's most pressing challenges.
Microbes Make Our World.
Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social Cell biologist and geneticist, Professor, mom and consumer of alcohol. Those might all be related. I grind til I own it.
She/her/hers.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6859-0073
personal account
Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social Evolutionary cell biology @EMBL
evonuclab.org
Nichole Broderick, PhD @nabroderick.bsky.social microbiologist. entomologist. immunologist. Lover of science, especially at its intersections. Asst Prof of Biology at Johns Hopkins. @nabroderick elsewhere.
Mark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist focused on microbe-animal communication. Professor UW-Madison. Messages are my personal views.
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)
Seth Blackshaw @sethblackshaw.bsky.social Professor of Neuroscience. Studying neural development, regeneration, and control of innate behaviors at Johns Hopkins.
Yves Brun lab @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social We like to look at bacteria do the things they do. Université de Montréal.
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
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!
Clement Chow @clementychow.bsky.social henfluencer - geriatric millennial - #stopasianhate - don’t call me Clem - emotional eater™️- he/him- @chowlab
https://linktr.ee/clementchow
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
Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social Scientist, professor, dog mom, gardener and cook. I <3 ion transporters.
Director, Graduate Program in Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
ORCID: 0000-0002-1833-5971
Jessica Polka @jessicapolka.bsky.social Open Science Advocate | Senior Program Lead, MIT Open Learning
Somerville, MA
Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social Dedicated to drug discovery, enthralled by science. 5 kids. She. SAB Recursion. Founder SyzOnc. Lab at Broad Institute. Opinions my own.
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD.
Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner
NL/USA/SFO.
#ImageForensics
@MicrobiomDigest on X.
Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
Support me: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik
Arjun Raj @arjunraj.bsky.social Just another LLM. Tweets do not necessarily reflect the views of people in my lab or even my own views last week. http://rajlab.seas.upenn.edu https://rajlaboratory.blogspot.com
Arash Komeili @micromagnets.bsky.social Cell biology of bacterial organelles. We love magnetic bacteria (www.komeililab.org)
Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social Principal investigator of a cell and #DevBio research lab at UC Davis School of Vet. Med. Co-Editor In Chief of @diffjournal.bsky.social. Posts are my own. https://www.crystalrogersphd.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-9549-1089
Dan Stoebel @profstoebel.bsky.social Prof of Biology, Harvey Mudd College. Studies how bacteria regulate their genes in response to stress, and how these systems evolve. (he/him)
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social brand new asst prof at University of Pennsylvania
studying metabolic flux- NCI R00 awardee- also i do bad jokes (she/her)
https://bartmanlabpenn.squarespace.com/
Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social Co-founder & CSO @ArcadiaScience. Head of Open Science @AsteraInstitute. Immigrant. she/her
Still post frequently on X (@PracheeAC)
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”
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
https://linktr.ee/atkovacs
Seemay Chou @seemaychou.bsky.social Scientist. Co-founder/CEO @ Arcadia Science. Board @ Astera and The Navigation Fund. Texan in CA.
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
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Frank Santoriello @fsantoriello.bsky.social Microbial geneticist 🧬🧫| Princeton MolBio Postdoc with Bonnie Bassler
Artist 🎨🖊️ | I like to draw bacteria and dead things
Likes loud music, sci-fi/fantasy/horror, tattoos, and fermented foods.
he/him
https://www.franksantorielloart.com
bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social 
Lindsey R. F. Backman @lbackman.bsky.social Whitehead Fellow and PI at Whitehead Institute | Exploring how human microbiome anaerobes cope with oxidative stress | Chemistry PhD at MIT, Chemistry BS at UF | she/her | Opinions are my own
Jordan Barrows, PhD @jordanmbarrows.bsky.social Post-doc in @peteralind.bsky.social lab at Umeå University | Former post-doc in Lasker Lab at Scripps Research Institute | Former student in @goleylab.bsky.social | Love learning about bacteria, cool imaging techniques, and teaching | he/him/his |
Nicole Dubilier @nicoledubilier.bsky.social Director Max Planck Institute Marine Microbiology
Head of Symbiosis Department
https://www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Department-of-Symbiosis.html
Prof at Uni Bremen, MARUM
symbiosis, microbiome, marine microbiology
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
Teresa O'Meara @teresaomeara.bsky.social Associate professor in microbiology | fungal pathogenesis + genetics | UMichigan
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
Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social Living my purpose
Writer:
Books #LessonsFromPlants (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674241282) & #WhenTreesTestify (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250335166/whentreestestify/)
Professor
#Leadership|#Mentoring|#EquityReadingList/#DEIReadingList
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
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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social Environmental microbiologist and CRC at UWaterloo. Tangent-prone story teller and compulsive frisbee chaser. Views are my own. 
Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social Professor, USC Marine and Environmental Biology, microbe hunter. he/him. Not a bot. thethrashlab.com @the.thrash.lab
Arcadia Science @arcadiascience.com Research and development company leveraging the biology of diverse organisms. Read about our science: http://research.arcadiascience.com
Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social Newsletter: ScienceForEveryone.science.
ecologist • entomologist • writer • entrant ornithologist
AAAS Policy Fellow 26-27 (DOI:USGS) • simultaneously, Professor of Biology at CSU Dominguez Hills
(he/him)
Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social Nematode antagonist
Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social Scientist, mother, perpetual learner. Assistant Professor, Structural Biologist, Advocate, and Speaker. Views my own.
signal @starbic.01
www.starbirdlab.com
Jan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com Professor and director at the Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, https://veeninglab.com/. Interested in antibiotic resistance, bacterial cell biology, host-microbe interactions.
Geo Santiago-Martínez @geosantiagom.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at MCB UConn 🔬🧬🏳️🌈 (He/él)
#newPI Microbial Ecophysiology Lab
https://microbial-ecophysiology-lab.mcb.uconn.edu/
Mexican & Indigenous, 1st gen
#Methane #Microbes #Methanogen #Archaea #Microbiome #ArchaeaPower #OneHealth #Astrobiology #Proteins
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
Kevin Forsberg @kvnforsberg.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, UT Southwestern. Posts are my own.
Lab Website: forsberglab.org
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