DanTurner @dnaturner.bsky.social CSO at Enhanced Genomics #biotech #biosky #punting
Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social Virologist | Professor of Sneezy Diseases | studies influenza @ MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research | occasionally draws things | (he/him)
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infectionimmunity/staff/edwardhutchinson/
Kim Kreuze @kkreuze.bsky.social PhD student studying Infant gut phages | Vatanen & Friman labs University of Helsinki | Viral dark matter | phage-host interactions | MGE competition | microbial ecology
Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social Sci-Comm | Researcher @kurzgesagt.org | she/her 🦠🧫🔬 | Tell your cat I said PSPSPSPS
Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social Trying to leave things better than I find them
Analytical Scientist 👩🔬 #AcademicMentalHealth advocate 🌱 Founder VoicesofAcademia.com 💬 Author of "Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD" 📘 ADHDer 💚 Proud mum 👶 she/her. Views mine.
Heather Hendrickson @drhhnz.bsky.social #Evolution, #Microbiology, and #Phages. Associate Professor, University of Canterbury, Christchurch NZ. Adaptable Phage Solutions Co-Science Lead.Views my own. |She| Her|.
hendricksonlab.co.nz
John Dennehy @drjdennehy.bsky.social We are the resistance, not because we chose to be, but because we have no other choice.
Adam Ostrowski @adamostr.bsky.social Polish scientist made Scottish, always European. Applications specialist Lots of views, all of them mine. He/him🇬🇧🇵🇱🏴🏳️🌈🧑🤝🧑
Simona Huwiler @simonahuwiler.bsky.social Microbiologist, Predatory Bacteria & Novel Antibiotics. Research Group Leader at University of Bern. ERC Starting Grant Assistant Professor.
Jan @yawnxyz.bsky.social making digital biology faster and less cumbersome @ Nvidia
Prev: Groq, WIMR, Phage Australia, CMU
Phage Maleficar @phagemaleficar.bsky.social Writer, visual artist, clothing designer, indie game dev. It's going to get weird. I'm going to make it weird.
"You have caused me to lose my lack of faith! Remove me from my death-support system!" -Blacklips Performance Cult
https://phagemaleficar.itch.io
Dino Sbardellati @phagebeelicious.bsky.social Graduate Student studying bees, phage, and microbial ecology. I like bioinformatics, food, and art.
Vannette lab - UC Davis.
Github: https://github.com/dsbard
Jessica Sacher @jessicasacher.bsky.social phage therapy scientist at Stanford, building community at Phage Directory, writing about adventures from the lab to the clinic -> https://jess.bio
Emmanuele Severi @emmseveri.bsky.social Research Fellow at Northumbria University: phage, synthetic biology, sialic acid, transport proteins. He/him.
Sourav Das (PhD Microbiology ongoing) @souravamr.bsky.social Microbiology, AMR, Bacteriophage, Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, Antibiotics, Molecular Biology, Protein expression and purification, Protein docking and Pyocins.
Bhavya N P @npbhavya.bsky.social Bioinformatician
Seweryn Bialasiewicz @sewerynoz.bsky.social Taking in the full complexity of life (and viruses!) at the micro and macro scales and how they interact, one metagenomic sequence at a time.
Andrian Gajigan @adi-gajigan.bsky.social Postdoc at Cornell. Oceanography, biochem, virology. Prev UH Manoa, UP Diliman, UP Manila. NatGeo Explorer. Community organizing. he/him/siya 🇵🇭 Views my own.
Marta Lourenço @martalourenco21.bsky.social Microbiologist |microbial ecology | microbiome | phage-bacteria interactions
Phages rule the world👀
Postdoc at Evolutionary Biology lab with Isabel Gordo
Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine - Oeiras
Postdoc Junior Leader Fellow #BecariosFLC
Ella Rotman @klebsiella.bsky.social Microbiologist, sci-fi fan, cat lover
@peppermin5.bsky.social @peppermin5.bsky.social PhD holder. Science communicator. Author. (and, duolingo 'galactic champion' 😹) #MRSA #AMR #ESBL #GenomeSurveillance #AcademicKindness
(Posts all mine)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/huiminneoh/
dr. kristin d. lane 🔬 @kristindownie.bsky.social new assoc prof at Idaho State University in molecular biology. life, science, wine & politics. all tweets are my own. #mitochondria, #malaria, & #phage. she/her
Susanne Brenzinger @subrenz.bsky.social Specialist @ EMBL Microbial Automation & Culturomics Core Facility. Interested in bacterial stress response, cell physiology, antibiotics, phage defense... and whatever else piques my interest.
maureen @maureenbug.bsky.social phage biologist at the Joint Genome Institute
mostly posting about invertebrate butts
she/her
https://maureenbug.github.io/
Sadie Antine @sadieantine.bsky.social PhD in Virology Harvard Kranzusch Lab Alum
Lukas Schwyter @schluk.bsky.social SNF BRIDGE Fellow
PostDoc Kümmerli Lab @University of Zurich
Co-Founder Versarys Bioscience (www.versarys.ch)
Mark van Raaij @markvanraaij.eurosky.social Structural biologist, virus proteins, bacteriophages, expresser and purifier, crystallisation, macromolecular crystallography, commissioning editor for Acta Cryst F.
Dor Salomon @drdorsalomon.bsky.social Professor, Tel Aviv University.
Bacterial toxins and secretion, T6SS, MGEs, syn bio, host-microbe interactions, anti-phage defense.
Model systems: Vibrio, Aeromonas, Pantoea.
ISM board member.
https://www.dorsalomonlab.sites.tau.ac.il/
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
Luíño Seoane @brigan.bsky.social Scientist, poet, traveler; divergent thinker. #StopWar 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴☠️
Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social Evolutionary & population biology of vector-borne viral disease systems. 🦟 genetics PhD candidate in NC.
Arbovirologist, orthobunyavirus wonk, feral reference librarian, & public health advocate. 80s mosquito. Coaster-sized earrings. (she/her) 🏳️🌈
Jens Hör @jenshoer.bsky.social Molecular Principles of RNA Phages | Junior Professor @uni-wuerzburg.de | Group Leader @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social
Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social The Sorek Lab
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/molgen/Sorek/
raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social UNC Charlotte Associate Professor in Bioinformatics and Genomics. Computational molecular synthetic virologist.
Github - github.com/raw-lab
Website - rawlab.org
Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social Bioinformatician and microbiologist at Flinders University in Adelaide. @linsalrob on all your socials
Steffanie Strathdee, PhD @superbug-slayer.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist. Harold Simon Distinguished Professor @UCSanDiego. Phage wrangler @IPATH. Author of The Perfect Predator. ThePerfectPredator.com
Alex Probst @alexjprobst.bsky.social Professor for Microbiology at Research Alliance Ruhr, Uni-DUE, #ERCSyg awardee, member of CRC RESIST
#microbiome #omics #microscopy #ecophysiology
Free time: Dad, weight training, cs2, nature, bbq, board games, pottery
Karthik Anantharaman @karthik-a.bsky.social Associate Professor at UW-Madison. Interested in Microbial and Viral Ecology, Computational Biology, Biogeochemistry, Sulfur Metabolism 🦠💻 Hero to a toddler • Metalhead • Views mine
Ivan Liachko @ivanliachko.bsky.social Scientist, father, founder/CEO of PhaseGenomics; opinions are my own and probably not the position of the company.
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
George Bouras @gbouras13.bsky.social Bioinformatics @ Adelaide University
- phages, microbes and more
Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Marine Biology and Ecology, University of Miami's Rosenstiel School.
Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social We develop new ways to “see” and understand viruses in the laboratory and in nature.
Viruses of Microbes 2024 @vom2024.bsky.social Viruses of Microbes 2024 - International conference on Viruses of Microbes; 15-19 July 2024, Cairns, Australia.
Ella Sieradzki @sieravirus.bsky.social Assistant professor @ Aarhus University | ERC starting 2024 | Microbial/viral ecology | crazy cat lady |
@EMG_Lyon @jemersonmicro @UCBerkeley @Firestone_lab @BanfieldLab @JedFuhrman 🇮🇱🇺🇦
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 🏴
Ken Stedman @xtremevirusprof.bsky.social Professor of Biology at Portland State U.
Extreme Virologist - Astrovirologist
Opinions, Posts, Reposts and Privilege my own.
(he/him/his).
eXtreme Virus Lab - PI
phage @clubmoss.bsky.social
Amanda|Phage @amandalyngunn.bsky.social Phage’s mom, scientist, snow enthusiast
www.dramandagunn.com
🦠 Phage @phage.bsky.social Quality analyst, automation engineer and security enthusiast.
🌠 Whimsy on crack is my North Star.
🌏 The bottomless mimosa of bad tech policy, Australia.
Chris @phage.nz High Tech, Low Life | curatedintel.org Team
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
Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social Professor of Biology & Institute for Health Computing, U of Maryland; explores how viruses impact human & environmental health;
'Asymptomatic' (JHU Press - https://bit.ly/asymptomatic_book)
&
'Science Matters' (https://substack.com/@joshuasweitz)
Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social Microbiology, evolution, and bacteriophages. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social Dad, Teacher, Artist, Gardener and Scientist.
Change is the only permanent thing in the world. This moment will pass. It has to.
Ps.
All I post is my personal opinion
Patrick R. Secor @prsecor.bsky.social Associate Professor at Montana State University. Studying bacteria and their viruses with a focus on phage-host-microbe interactions.
Lab Website: https://secorlab.org
Faculty profile:
https://www.montana.edu/mbi/directory/2553333/patrick-secor
Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social Lecturer at Bangor University. Environmental virologist, working on phages. Scientific illustrator. Shop: http://redbubble.com/people/Jellie Website: https://elliejameson.wordpress.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNM-pdh9jd
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
Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social UCSD Prof, phage experimental evolution, first gen uni, LGTBQIA+, yinzer, wastes time on politics
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
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)
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
Mike Blazanin @mikeblazanin.bsky.social Postdoc with @kayla-king.bsky.social and @sarperotto.bsky.social at UBC. Bacterial evolution with C. elegans, phages, and bacterial communities. Modeling and experimental evolution. Microbial and computational methods.
https://mikeblazanin.com/
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
Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social Evolving better E. coli for 75,000 generations. Prof at MSU, but opinions my own. (Ok, I also speak for billions -- er, TRILLIONS -- of E. coli.)
Website for LTEE: the-ltee.org
Banner pic from NYC, shared by Darwin. (The microbiologist, not the other one.)
James Gurney @jamesgurney.bsky.social Assistant professor working on phage. Occasional writer/fact checker for kurzgesagt. I didn’t write dinotopia.
Stephen Beckett @beckettstephen.bsky.social Computational ecology. Viruses and microbes. Oceans. Bipartite networks. Dad. Scientist @UofMaryland Dept. Biology, and Institute for Health Computing. Searching learning & coffee converting. More about me: https://sjbeckett.github.io
Jeremy Barr @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social Bacteriophage biologist and enthusiast. Associate Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, Monash University.
Elizabeth Pursey @elliepursey.bsky.social Scientist of microbial genomes, writes and draws a lot
Reed Stubbendieck @bactereedia.bsky.social Microbiologist 🧫 | Asst. Prof. OKState | specialized/secondary metabolism | bacterial interactions | respiratory microbiomes | he/him | posts are my own |
Kayla King, Ph.D. @kayla-king.bsky.social Prof & Canada Excellence Research Chair | UBC Zoology, M&I | Evolution, ecology, host-pathogen, biodiversity | #firstgen | she/her/hers
Siân Owen @sianowen.bsky.social Microbiologist & phage phanatic! Enthusiastic explorer of microbial genomes.
PI at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
Asst Prof @albany.edu
Currently obsessed with plasmid-dependent phages
www.wadsworth.org/research/laboratories/owen
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.
Alita Burmeister @aburmeister.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW Milwaukee | Molecular Microbiology and Evolution Lab | Microbes, Mentorship, and More | she/hers
Andrew Millard @milja001.bsky.social phage, genomes & random news items. All views my own
millardlab.org
Lotta-Riina Sundberg @lrsundberg.bsky.social Pathogenic and environmental bacteria and their phages, evolution of pathogenicity, phage resistance, mucosal environment. Professor in Univ. Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Carli Roush @phagephan.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech studying bacteriophages, among other larger things
B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale
she/her
Sean Czerwinski @sczerwinski.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate with @jamesgurney.bsky.social - Phage researcher that is open to swapping modules on occasion. he/him
Phage papers @phagepapers.bsky.social Bsky bot that delivers new phage related papers and news! Tweets are not endorsements! Started by
@jamesgurney.bsky.social and saved by @yawnxyz.bsky.social
Krista Freeman @kfreeman.bsky.social Big phan of physics & phages | cryo-EM, phage engineering, a little immunology | e-bike enthusiast
CWRU Physics Assistant Professor
Cleveland kid.
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
Christian Loyo @christianloyo.bsky.social Postdoc at Fred Hutch | MIT Biology PhD 🦫 | UW-Madison Alum 🧀 | Interested in all things microbes! | Chicano 🇺🇸🇲🇽 | He/Him
Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social We study social evolution in viruses.
Assistant Professor @zoology.ubc.ca & @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social
asherleeks.com
Meaghan Castledine @mcastd.bsky.social NERC IRF 🦠 all things PHAGE and microbial communities 🧫🔬 I also have a dog and enjoy nerdy things 🧝🏻♀️
Rauf Salamzade @raufs.bsky.social Interested in microbial ecology & evolution.
Views are only my own. (he/him, 🇺🇸, 🌎)
https://github.com/raufs
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”
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
Tiffany Taylor @taylorlabgroup.bsky.social Professor of Microbial Ecology and Evolution at the Life Sciences Department at the University of Bath. Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow. Children's author evolution/genetics. Mum.
https://tiffanybtaylor.wordpress.com/
Kevin Forsberg @kvnforsberg.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, UT Southwestern. Posts are my own.
Lab Website: forsberglab.org
Banner Art: Tamanash Bhattacharya
Jason Shapiro @jshap.bsky.social Senior Bioinformatician at the University of Chicago. Also interested in phages, bacteria, and coevolution.
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
Josie Elliott @josie-e.bsky.social Postdoc studying evolutionary microbiology with phage and pseudomonas at MMSB Lyon, France with Anne Chevallereau in the MEEP group (She/Her)
Bridget Watson @bridgetwatson.bsky.social Lecturer and group leader, University of Otago, New Zealand
Former BBSRC Discovery Fellow, University of Exeter, Cornwall UK
Microbial ecology and evolution, plant-microbe interactions, mobile genetic element-defence system interactions, Azospirillum spp
Rob Fagan @robfagan.bsky.social Lead for Molecular Microbiology @sheffielduni.bsky.social
@molmicrosheffield.bsky.social
#SEN parent, #AngelmanSyndrome
Clostridial cell biology, AMR & bacteriophage structure and function
He/Him
https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/fagan-lab/
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://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/molecular-diversity-of-microbes/
Lindsey Burcham @lindseyatutk.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Univ of Tennessee
Host-pathogen interactions & vaginal biology
Mom of two tiny microbes
Jolene Ramsey @jrrmicro.bsky.social #latina #scientist jrrmicrolab.bsky.social PI | phavorite viruses are #phage | loves the outdoors | she/her/ella
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.
Lavisha Parab @lavishaparab.bsky.social Phages, microbiome, bacteria, antibiotic resistance
Postdoc@LMU Munich, prev. Max Planck Inst. Evolbio @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social & IITKGP
Love experimenting, science & politics
she/her 💜 🏳️🌈
Neurodiv
https://lavishaparab.github.io/
medium.com/voyagertoujours