Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social Conservation biologist and former astrophysicist. Scientist for threatened birds with the #kakapo and #takahe programmes at the New Zealand Department of Conservation. Avatar: @blackmudpuppy.bsky.social
Abraham Gihawi @abrahamgihawi.bsky.social UEA Research Fellow - Bioinformatics - Cancer (meta)genomics since 2017.
Opinions are mine alone.
Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social My lab studies wildlife microbiomes and diet at Uppsala University, Sweden.
SciLifeLab Group Leader.
Previously at Brown University & Smithsonian.
Molecular Ecology, Evolution, Hologenomics, Conservation Biology.
she/her. https://www.videvall.com/
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. 
Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social Inupiaq, scientist of host-microbe interactions, mom, runner, news junkie, not necessarily in that order. I speak for myself. She/her. Only reskeets posts with alt text. Unapologetically typo prone, doesn't use AI.
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
Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social Collector of social media sites. Infectious disease epidemiologist. Writes about vaccine hesitancy, science misinfo, zombies. Probably somewhere on a trail. Views own etc.
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Ed Yong is offline @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
Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social Associate Professor, MIT
Still thinking about the 10^9 mutations generated in your microbiome today.
Website: http://lieberman.science
Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social Sci-Comm | Researcher @kurzgesagt.org | she/her 🦠🧫🔬 | Tell your cat I said PSPSPSPS
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
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
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
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)
Dr. Dawn Bowdish @msmacrophage.bsky.social Professor of Medicine, McMaster University
Executive Director of the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health
Board of Directors Lung Health Foundation
#macrophages #aging #respiratoryinfections #vaccinations #immunity #inflammation #scicomm
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.
Erin Goley @goleylab.bsky.social Bacterial cell biologist.
Noah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social Microbial ecologist
https://www.fiererlab.org/
K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social bacterial geneticist, associate professor, mom. enjoy: science, dogs, gin, books, vaccines, chocolate, old bay, the US Constitution & Bill of Rights
Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social Microbiologist now #Illustrator; Give #Science clarity, impact & pictures; Portfolio lizawolfson.co.uk ⭐commissions open from JAN 2026⭐ #SciArt #Microbiology #scicomm she/they 🏳️🌈
Bristol, England · https://campsite.bio/eliza_coli
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
Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Editor at Microbial Genomics & mBio, Scouse, interested in Streptomyces, Evolution, Antibiotics, AMR, microbiology, Phage, herpetology, Cricket, EvertonFC
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
Contact: admin@blackinmicrobiology.org
Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social Professor of Genetic Medicine at the University of Chicago. Decoding the human microbiome. http://BlekhmanLab.org
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.
Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social Mostly about bacterial gene/protein regulation & function, esp. with Borrelia burgdorferi and Lyme disease. Professor at U Kentucky, views are my own. He/him
Lab= http://microscopist.net/Stevenson_Lab.html
UK= https://medicine.uky.edu/users/bstev0
John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social VP Research & Innovation, University College Cork @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social |PI @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social |Prof Dept. Anatomy & Neuroscience |MRIA @ria.ie|
Stress, Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis, Brain-Body Interactions, Research Policy
Mark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist focused on microbe-animal communication. Professor UW-Madison. Messages are my personal views.
Carolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social Microbiologist 🧫🧪 | Microbe-Microbe interactions in infection | Mom of 👧🏼👦🏼🐶| Asst. Professor at UTK | Views my own 
Christina Faherty @christinafaher1.bsky.social Bacterial geneticist 🧫 🦠 🧬 focusing on #Shigella, #enteric #pathogens & #phage. Using host signals & #organoids to study #pathogenesis. Assist Prof at USUHS. Views my own. https://medschool.usuhs.edu/profile/christina-faherty-phd
Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social One of the greatest discoveries in microbiology came from contamination. Join the club and share yours here 🦠🧫 Merch ➡️ https://www.contam.club
Shai Bel (The Mucus Man) @mucusman.bsky.social The Bel Lab, boldly going where no one else bothers to. Associate professor @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social. Opinions are my microbiota's.
Binning Singletons @binningsingletons.com Get more out of large conferences with our Mentoring and Networking program.
https://binningsingletons.com/
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00643-19
Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social Director of Department of Microbiome Science at MPI Biology Tübingen Germany. Also known as Leylab.com.
Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social Professor, University of Geneva. We study Enterococcal biofilms, pathogenesis, and AMR. Formerly @KimInSingapore 🌴.
https://kimberlyklinelab.com/
Rauf Salamzade @raufs.bsky.social Interested in microbial ecology & evolution.
Views are only my own. (he/him, 🇺🇸, 🌎)
https://github.com/raufs
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=OBPpZq4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Gemma Reguera 🌎 @microgem.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Development at Michigan State University. Editor in Chief of Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM). Views are my own.
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
Professor Lesley Hoyles @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social And all this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.
Professor of Microbiome and Systems Biology @ Nottingham Trent University. 🏳️🌈
Working predominantly on the human gut microbiota.
All views my own.
Lindsay Kalan @lkalan.bsky.social Associate Professor at McMaster university interested in microbes and how they interact with each other and with us. #MicroSky #IDSky #Microbiomesky #secmet 🇨🇦🧫🧬⚗️
Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social Microbiology, evolution, and bacteriophages. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Sarah Bagby @scbagby.bsky.social Environmental microbiologist at Case Western. She/her. https://bagby-lab.github.io/, https://emerge-bii.github.io/
Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social Innate immunity/host-pathogen interactions. Husband, father, former Soviet immigrant. Opinions my own.
Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social Prof Lindsay Hall’s research group at University of Birmingham & Quadram Institute. Early life microbiota (we love Bifidobacterium!), and influence of diet, host and pathogens.
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.
Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social Distinguished Professor University of California Davis
Member, NAS, AAM, Leopoldina, AAAS
Views are my dog's
Manuela Raffatellu @manuelar.bsky.social From Sardinia to California - Professor at UCSD - Love microbes. Find me by the ocean or at my Pilates studio
Cara Haney @carahaney.bsky.social Associate Professor. Pseudomonas-host interactions, the plant microbiome, how good microbes turn bad. Pitt BioSciences
John Helmann @johnhelmann.bsky.social Professor at Cornell Univ. Bacillus subtilis physiology and stress responses (metal homeostasis, redox stress, antibiotic resistance & cell envelope). EIC of Mol Microbiol.
Jotham Suez (SuezLab@JHU) @suez.bsky.social Microbiome enthusiast 🦠 || Assistant Professor for Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Johns Hopkins University || He/Him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.suezlab.org
Marnix Medema @marnixmedema.bsky.social Professor of Bioinformatics at Wageningen University and Leiden University. Natural product discovery, microbiomes, method development.
Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social The Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics led by Nicola Segata
**We are hiring, get in touch if interested!**
http://segatalab.cibio.unitn.it/
Moderator @svetlanaup.bsky.social
Dr. Sue Ishaq @drsueishaq.bsky.social Associate Professor of Micobiomes at the University of Maine; Founder of the Microbes and Social Equity working group; Senior Editor at mSystems; Early Career At-Large Member of the Board of the American Society for Microbiology.
Gina Lewin @ginalewin.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Case Western studying microbial interactions in the oral and vaginal microbiomes (and beyond!). Also find me outside, baking, coloring, or sleeping.
thelewinlab.com
Andreas Peschel @andreaspeschel.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology at the University of Tübingen, studying Staphylococcus biology and pathogenicity
Mariana Byndloss @maribyndloss.bsky.social 🇧🇷 🇺🇸 DVM/PhD | Host-microbiota metabolic interactions | Associate Professor | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | Mom | Dog lover | Views are my own
hostmicrobe @hostmicrobe.bsky.social Scientist working at the intersection of immunology, microbiology and genomics. Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases at UPenn.
Victor J. Torres @torreslab.bsky.social Scientist fascinated by infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions and bacterial infections. Views my own 🇵🇷 #CienciaBoricua #MacFellow #MRSA
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/
Elaine Hsiao @pipethero.bsky.social microbes, guts & brains at UCLA
www.hsiao.science
Irene Newton @chicascientifica.bsky.social Professor at Indiana University, Department of Biology. Interested in all things microbial symbiosis related & these days, a lot of MGEs
@bacteriacities.bsky.social @bacteriacities.bsky.social Nicola from the university of Dundee
Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social The Huttenhower Lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: microbial community function and human microbiome population health;
Moderator: @chahat.bsky.social
Reed Stubbendieck @bactereedia.bsky.social Microbiologist 🧫 | Asst. Prof. OKState | specialized/secondary metabolism | bacterial interactions | respiratory microbiomes | he/him | posts are my own |
Pat Schloss @patschloss.bsky.social Papa to 9 microbes, mackerel snapper, shepherd, master of sucking. I want to help you learn the skills you'll need to succeed in science. 
Renée Tsolis @rtsolis.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at UC Davis working on bacteria-host interactions. Opinions are my own.
Patrick Bradley @bradleyph.bsky.social Asst. Prof of Microbiology at Ohio State. Specialist in human microbiomes and bioinformatics. Tweets reflect my own opinions (i.e. not OSU's). He/him/his 🏳️🌈🧑🔬
Katy Patras @katypatras.bsky.social Associate Professor, studies host-microbe interactions and women's health. Views are my own.
Kelly S Doran @kellydoran.bsky.social Prof Immunology and Microbiology at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, interested in Strep and Gm+ pathogens that impact health and disease
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
Avena Ross @avenaross.bsky.social Associate Professor, Chemistry, Queen's University, Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, 🇨🇦 🇳🇿she/her
Catherine Armbruster @catarmbruster.bsky.social biofilmmaker | assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon | polymicrobial communities & bacterial evolution
Ashley Wolf @ashleyrwolf.bsky.social Microbiome research at UC Berkeley
awolflab.com
RobLavigne.bsky.social @roblavigne.bsky.social Principal investigator of the Laboratory of Gene Technology. Our lab focuses on fundamental molecular microbiology research to inspire new antibacterial design strategies and biotechnology applications.
Alan Walker @faecalmatters.bsky.social Professor of gut microbiology. Allegedly grumpy, but actually just Scottish. Messages/rants are my own views, not the University's, obviously.
Omry Koren @omrykoren.bsky.social 
Katherine Lemon @kathlemon.bsky.social Outdoorsy, curious, microbiologist, pediatric infectious diseases doc, and mom (to humans and a dog). she/her 🏳️🌈 Opinions entirely my own. Trust the scientific process.
Bjo:rn Schro:der @mucubacter.bsky.social Assoc Prof, curious biochemist, interested in the interaction between diet, microbes and mucosa in the gut. www.mucubacter.org
Located at Umeå University/MIMS, Sweden.
Sheila Patrick @fragilismatters.bsky.social 🦠🧫 Professor Emerita Anaerobic bacteria Human microbiota 
Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬 @sherlockpholmes.bsky.social Statistician,Mother,Prof,Grandmother(she/her)🇫🇷🇵🇹🇺🇸🧪.
🖋️with @wkhuber.bsky.social:Modern Statistics for Modern Biology (https://www.huber.embl.de/msmb/) #stats,#rstats,OSS,arXiv, microbial ecology,cytof,multi-omics,Bioconductor:phyloseq, DADA2
Greg Gloor @ggloor.bsky.social biochemist, computational biologist, synbio and my dogs. I care about stuff at the margins. It’s likely we’re all doing it wrong!
Shane JF Cronin @shanecronin.bsky.social Neuroscience - immunology - BH4 metabolism 
Lily Khadempour @khadlily.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Rutgers Newark and PI of the Khadlab.com. Studying insect-microbial symbiosis and microbial ecology. she/her
Sara Marti @saramarti2.bsky.social Group leader at IDIBELL, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, working on Haemophilus spp and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
#Microbiology #microbiome #biofilm #ATBs #COPD
Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. Microbes, evolution, and infectious disease. Dad and husband.
barberlab.org
Jeff Watson @lifeat78rpm.com Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Gonzaga University. Dodgers fan, father, music lover, writer. All opinions mine, not my employer’s. Biochemist (enzyme structure-function-regulation-evolution, microbial metabolism, astrobiology)
David Clarke @cleverflick.bsky.social Head of School of Microbiology at University College Cork. Likes bacteria (in general) and Man Utd. 
Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social #NewPI interested in #immune #evolution, host #pathogen interactions, and #ScientificPublishing @ University of Exeter, UK. He/him. 🇨🇦
Cecilia Noecker @cecilianoecker.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Minnesota State Mankato (she/her). Interested in microbial ecology and evolution, metabolism, genomics, computational biology, equitable education, & more. Views my own. noeckerlab.github.io
Adrià Auladell @adriaula.bsky.social Bioinformatics and marine microbial ecology. Right now focused mainly protists + metatranscriptomics! Open science. He/Him/His.
Swathi @swath1.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬Scientist | 🦠Microbes | ⚡️Metabolism | 🧪Chemistry | 🐌Patterns | 🌎 Earth
Postdoc @ MIT - Using electrochemistry and genomics to measure and manipulate microbe/microbiome metabolism.
https://penumutchuscience.vercel.app/
@drsouz.bsky.social @drsouz.bsky.social Microbiologist & Biochemist, Assistant Professor @ucsfmicrobiome @UCSF_EXP. I love it when microbes talk and I get to listen. Opinions my own.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cN8S9aIAAAAJ&hl=en
Justine Debelius @jwoodelius.bsky.social Looking for stories in words and data and occasionally poop. Human gut microbiomes and weirdness.
The typos and opinions are my own and not that of my employer.
She/Her.
Current: JHU. Past: KI, UCSD, CU Boulder
Christian Diener @cdiener.com Lifelong relationship with microbes, now studying them for a living. Assistant Professor at MedUni Graz. Opinions are my own. He/him 🦠+💻=❤️
More socials at cdiener.com. Lab website at dienerlab.com.
Sophie Jean Walton @sophiejwalton.bsky.social (soon to be) NYU postdoc with Joy Bergelson. evolutionary ecology, genomics, and (plant) microbiomes :) she/her
https://sophiejwalton.github.io
Shaun Cross @shauntcross.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Nebraska Medical Center | Vector-borne Diseases, Alpha-gal Syndrome, Pathogen Genomics, One Health