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)
Lucas Moriniere @lucasmoriniere.bsky.social Postdoc at UC Berkeley (Arkin lab) and LBNL (Mutalik lab). Former plant pathologist converted to the wonders of the phage world. Phage-host interactions | Phage receptor specificity | High-throughput genetics | Phage engineering | Predictive biology.
Patrick Moynihan @pmoyniha.bsky.social Interested in all things mycobacteria and cool science broadly. Ass. Prof at the Univ. of Western Ontario. Editor for Microbiology. Views are mine. @pmoyniha@mstdn.science, @pmoyniha
https://pmoyniha.github.io/moynihan-lab/
Höfer Lab @hoeferlab.bsky.social The Höfer lab studies the epitranscriptomic mechanisms of gene regulation based on NAD-capped RNAs in bacteria and bacteriophages. We are located at Marburg University and a member of SYNMIKRO.
Jens Hör @jenshoer.bsky.social Molecular Principles of RNA Phages | Junior Professor @uni-wuerzburg.de | Group Leader @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social
Louis-Marie Bobay @lbobay.bsky.social Associate Professor. NC State. Microbial Genomics, Evolution, Bioinformatics.
Piotr Rozwalak @prozwalak.bsky.social PhD candidate in Viral Ecology and Omics Group
Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
Piotr Lukasik @sympiotr.bsky.social Researching the diversity, evolution, and roles of insect-microbe interactions at Jagiellonian University, Poland. Nature lover. Traveler. Photographer.
Martin Polz @polzlab.bsky.social Ecology and evolution of microbes.
Uniwersytet Jagielloński @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social Oficjalny profil najstarszego 🇵🇱 uniwersytetu, założonego w 1364 roku. Official profile of the oldest university in Poland, founded in 1364 | 🔗 uj.edu.pl
David Negus @davidnegus.bsky.social Microbiologist, lover of phage and predatory bacteria. Senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University. Department of prokaryotes culturable.
Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social Passionate about Microbes and Biodiversity. Bioinformatics. Novel Molecular Biology, RNA viruses and RdRp. Bioinformatician EMBL-EBI
Xavier Charpentier @labxc.bsky.social Group leader.
HGT in bacterial pathogens. Acinetobacter, Legionella. Natural transformation. AMR. MGEs.
Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie
Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social The Sorek Lab
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/molgen/Sorek/
Xavier Didelot @xavierdidelot.bsky.social Professor of Statistical Epidemiology and Genomics at University of Warwick
EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social Let's work collaboratively on Evolution Education and Outreach in Europe
https://evokeproject.org/
QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social QED Science is the only AI built for research, helping scientists evaluate which claims hold up across papers, grants, and daily work, without ever training on their data. Powered by QED’s validity engine for trustworthy scientific analysis.
Celia Ferriol-González @celiaferriolg.bsky.social
Ryan Cook @ryancook94.bsky.social Viral ecologist with Evelien Adriaenssens at The Quadram | All things phage (but mostly viromes) | Formerly at Uni of Nottingham with Andy Millard | All opinions my own.
@isabelgordo.bsky.social @isabelgordo.bsky.social
Marta Topor @martatopor.bsky.social Methods Nerd │ PCI RR Recommender
Dev Cog Neuroscience │Disability Research
Assist Prof
Open Science Coach
Linköping University 🇸🇪
Views my own
Rafael Pinilla-Redondo (Rafa) @rafomics.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at Copenhagen University. Excited about phages, plasmids, and bacterial immunity!👨🔬🔬 https://pinillaredondolab.com/
Beatriz Beamud @beatrizbeamud.bsky.social 🧪 Bacteria & Mobile Genetic Elements 💻 Synthetic Biology Group @institutpasteur 👩🔬 PhD @GVAfisabio @i2sysbio
José R Penadés @jrpenades.bsky.social Frustrated football player, I moved to a less relevant work: microbiologist interested on mobile genetic elements
Antonia Sagona @antoniasagona.bsky.social Reader (Associate Professor) in School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK.
Interested in bacteriophages and phage therapy.
Hannelore Longin @hannelorelongin.bsky.social PhD student @ Computational Systems Biology & Lab of Gene Technology. Investigating PTMs in viruses and bacteria with bioinformatics 💻🦠
Lucy van Dorp @lucyvandorp.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Group Leader in Microbial Genomics at UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social.
Reconstructing the evolution of us and our pathogens past, present and future using large-scale genomics.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpvan
Maliheh Mehrshad @mehrshmali.bsky.social Multipartite parasitic interactions in the microbial world,
Phage co-infection studies (ERC_StG: MULTIPHAGE)
Wallenberg Academy Fellow
#curiosity_driven #microbiology_without_borders
www.bionomics-mmlab.com
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
Franklin Nobrega @fnobrega.bsky.social Phage Biology, Bacterial defense systems, CRISPR-Cas, Microbial communities, Mucus interactions
http://www.fnobregalab.org
http://www.klebphacol.org
http://www.phage-collection.org
Patrick Pausch @patrick-pausch.bsky.social Research Professor & Group Leader at Vilnius University, LSC-EMBL - CRISPR, Gene Editing and Microbiology
Xena Dyball @xenadyball.bsky.social NRPDTP PhD student with Evelien Adriaenssens @ QIB 🦠 Previously at UKHSA & Warwick Uni 👩🔬
Pauline Scanlan @paulinedscanlan.bsky.social School of Microbiology and APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork 🇮🇪
Microbial Ecology | Microbial Evolution | Gut Microbiome
David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social Bacterial Immunity and Synthetic Biology enthusiast. Head of Lab at Institut Pasteur. Co-Founder of Eligo Bioscience.
George Bouras @gbouras13.bsky.social Bioinformatics @ Adelaide University
- phages, microbes and more
Vyshakh R Panicker @vyshakhrp.bsky.social Computational ‘Microbiologist’ - Structural and evolutionary biology to study bacteria-phage coevolution| PhD student - Microbial Genomics Group, MCB, UJ
Peter Fineran @peterfineran.bsky.social Prof. and Head of Phage-host interactions (Phi) lab. Phage defences, counter-defences, CRISPR-Cas, toxin-antitoxin. FRSNZ / James Cook Fellow
Karel Břinda @brinda.eu ‖ Permanent Researcher / INRIA Start. Faculty @ INRIA Rennes 🇫🇷 ‖
BioInfo/CompBio: algorithms, genomics, pathogens & rapid diagnostic of antibiotic resistance《 https://brinda.eu | https://github.com/karel-brinda 》
Krzysztof Pyrć @kpyrc.bsky.social Scientist | President-Elect @FNP | Professor @JU
🇵🇱🇪🇺
J6WP644F
k.pyrc@protonmail.com
Serge Mostowy @sergemostowylab.bsky.social
Christophe Fraser's Group @christophraser.bsky.social Posts from the research group of Christophe Fraser, Professor and Head of Data, Epidemiology and Analytics at the Pandemic Science Institute, University of Oxford. Infectious disease epidemiology & evolution: HIV, COVID, outbreaks, AMR.
Dina Hochhauser @dinahoch.bsky.social PhD student @SorekLab @WeizmannScience studying phage-bacteria interactions 🦠, MGEs 🛒 & defence islands 🛡🏝
Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social Director of Department of Microbiome Science at MPI Biology Tübingen Germany. Also known as Leylab.com.
Minttu Rönn @mintturonn.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist at Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Public health, math models & coffee. Focus on STIs, HIV, reproductive health.
https://hsph.harvard.edu/profile/minttu-ronn/
Jorge Moura de Sousa @jmouradesousa.bsky.social Staff researcher @institutpasteur and microbial eco-evolution aficionado.
Julian Parkhill @julianparkhill.bsky.social Researcher in pathogen genomics and evolution
University of Cambridge Vet School @camvetschool.bsky.social
https://pathgenevocam.github.io
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
Anna Karnkowska @ankarn.bsky.social Fascinated by microbial eukaryotes diversity, ecology & evolution.
PI at Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw.
x.com/ania_karnkowska
#ProtistsOnSky
Kim Hardie @kimhardie.bsky.social Prof Bacterial Pathogenicity University of Nottingham. Chair elect Publications and council member Microbiology Society. Deputy Academic Director National Biofilms Innovation Centre
Lourenço, J. @lourencojml.bsky.social Pathogen Population Biology Lab @ CBR/UCP, Lisbon, https://cbr.fm.ucp.pt/en/node/7111
Eco-epidemiology of mosquito-borne and antigenically variable pathogens.
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
James Hay @jameshay.bsky.social Research Fellow at the Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford. Using maths and stats to understand infectious disease dynamics, mostly viral kinetics and serology. https://hay-idd.github.io/
European Virus Bioinformatics Center @evbc.bsky.social Bringing together the excellence of virology and bioinformatics.
Tools: http://bit.ly/evbctools
Impressum: https://evbc.uni-jena.de/impressum/
Yu Wan 万宇 @wanyuac.bsky.social Research fellow in medical bacteriology at the University of Liverpool in the UK, studying bacterial genomics, evolution, antimicrobial resistance, and infectious disease epidemiology using bioinformatics and computational biology.
Chris Wymant @chriswymant.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiology w stat/math modelling, genomics. Senior researcher at the Pandemic Sciences Institute, Oxford. Likes global & one health, sustainability; animals count too. Vegan, flyingless. Views own. https://github.com/ChrisHIV/teaching
Rafael Peña-Miller @penamiller.bsky.social Scientist working somewhere around mathematical, computational and experimental microbiology
Pawel Grzechnik @grzechnikpawel.bsky.social Group Leader and Lecturer, Division of Molecular and Cellular Function, FBMH, University of Manchester
Transcription, ncRNAs and rare genetic diseases | Loves all types of martial arts
www.grzechniklab.com
Darren Obbard @darrenobbard.bsky.social Flies, Viruses, Genomes
Sebastian Glatt @sebastianglatt.bsky.social
Gabriel Leventhal @gaberoo.bsky.social Microbial evolutionary ecologist
CSO of pharmabiome.com
Stanisław Dunin-Horkawicz @staszekdh.bsky.social Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen & University of Warsaw. Using computational tools to study protein evolution and function.
Milot Mirdita @milot.bsky.social Open source #bioinformatics at Sungkyunkwan University 🇰🇷 | former Steinegger Lab @ SNU, Söding Lab @ MPI-NAT | http://mstdn.science/@milotmirdita
Vikram Alva @vikramalva.bsky.social Departmental Group Leader - Protein Bioinformatics @ Max Planck Institute for Biology - Tübingen @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Protein evolution // MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit // prokaryotic cell-surface proteins // prokaryotic histones
Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula @stoplab.bsky.social Molecular biologists fascinated by gene ends.
PI at IBMiB and CAT, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.
Oxford University and @mpi_ie Freiburg alumna.
STOPlab.org
Tomasz Kosciolek @tomaszlab.bsky.social Structural and Functional Genomics group
Kraków, Poland
Sano Centre for Computational Medicine
Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social Associate Professor, MIT
Still thinking about the 10^9 mutations generated in your microbiome today.
Website: http://lieberman.science
Jose Jimenez @jjimenez.bsky.social Associate Professor in Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London #synbio and evolution for health, the environment and the circular economy josejimenezlab.com
Rolf Kümmerli @rkmicrobes.bsky.social Professor at University of Zurich, Microbiology, Evolution, Ecology, Microbial Interactions, Infections
Schulenburg Lab Kiel @schulenburglab.bsky.social The Schulenburg lab is headed by Hinrich Schulenburg, Kiel University and Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen. We study the evolution and genetics of C. elegans-microbiome interactions and antibiotic resistance evolution in human pathogens
Kat Holt @katholt.bsky.social Scientist… pathogen genomics & antimicrobial resistance, computational biology & infectious disease epidemiology.
Co-Director LSHTM AMR Centre @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social
holtlab.net | klebnet.org | typhoidgenomics.org | amr.lshtm.ac.uk
Kelly Wyres @kelwyres.bsky.social Computational microbiologist; genomics, metabolic modelling, Klebsiella, capsules, population biology. Toddler mum and wannabe pilates enthusiast.
Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social Bacteriophages, dormant bacteria, and bacterial immunity. Assistant Professor of Molecular Phage Biology at ETH Zürich.
Alvaro San Millan @sanmillan.bsky.social Plasmid biology, antimicrobial resistance plasmidlab.es
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.)
Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social microbiology // evolution // mobile genetic elements
🏫 University of Liverpool, UK
🦠 www.andthemicrobes.org
💻 www.jpjhall.net
Franz Baumdicker @fbaumdicker.bsky.social Mathematical and Computational Population Genetics
Microbial Evolution | Machine Learning in PopGen | CRISPR-Cas | Pangenomes | HGT
🦠 ➔ 🧬 ➔ 💻 ➔ 🤔
www.baumdickergroup.de
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 🦠
Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social Microbial evolution / University of Manchester
Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social Scientist, genomics, evolution, microbiology, computational biology, Institut Pasteur/CNRS, Paris
Jeremy Barr @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social Bacteriophage biologist and enthusiast. Associate Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, Monash University.
Susie Grigson @susiegriggo.bsky.social Postdoc @ DOE JGI Berkeley Lab 🇺🇸 | Former PhD Student @ Flinders University 🇦🇺 | #bioinformatics #viruses #AI 🦠💻🧬 | she/her
https://github.com/susiegriggo
Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán @jerorb.bsky.social We study Antibiotic Resistance Ecology and Evolution · Ramón y Cajal University Hospital · Madrid · www.evodynamicslab.com
Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social Professor at the University of South Florida. Marine microbiology and virology, with a smattering of eukaryotes here and there because focus is for losers. Characterizing the global virome, one virus at a time. Owned by a very cute dog and cat. She/her
Christian Althaus @calthaus.bsky.social Computational epidemiologist at the University of Bern 👨💻🦠 cyclist 🚴 citizen 🗳 - views are my own
Patricia Bernal @pbernalt6ss.eurosky.social Group Leader & Associate Professor of Microbiology at Universidad de Sevilla. I am interested in Microbiology, Pseudomonas putida, T6SS, biocontrol and scicomm
Website: personal.us.es/pbguzman
📍University of Seville
Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social Sci-Comm | Researcher @kurzgesagt.org | she/her 🦠🧫🔬 | Tell your cat I said PSPSPSPS
Alison Mather @alisonmather.bsky.social Epidemiology, microbial (meta)genomics, antimicrobial resistance, One Health, Professor of Microbial Genomic Epidemiology at Quadram Institute Bioscience & University of East Anglia.
Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.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
Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social Semi-informed molecular biologist & recovering football coach / Research Professor / Microbial Genomics / Evolution / AMR /
/ https://www.fhi.no / www.haploid.no
John Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org Pathogen informatics and modelling http://bacpop.org
(Research group leader at EMBL-EBI - http://ebi.ac.uk/research/lees/)
Jay Hinton @jayhinton.bsky.social Salmonella admirer & Prof of Microbiology - Working on Salmonella bloodstream infections (iNTS) in sub- Saharan Africa context. Functional genomics. T1D.
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
Mart Krupovic @mkrupovic.bsky.social Virus origins/diversity/evolution; mobilome; Archaea.
Head of the Cell Biology and Virology of Archaea Unit at Institut Pasteur:
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/archaeal-virology/
Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social Population geneticist
Anne Kupczok @annecmg.bsky.social Assistant professor at Wageningen University, interested in Comparative Microbial Genomics, Phage genomics, Evolution
Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social Macrobe qui aime les microbes
http://www.shapirolab.ca/
Guillaume Méric @gmeric.bsky.social 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇦🇺 (he/him) | www.mericlab.com
Microbiome(s) and population health, host-microbe & pathogen genomics 🦠🧬
- Associate Professor (University of Bath);
- Clinical affiliate (Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute)
Gemma C. Atkinson @gemmaatkinson.bsky.social Lecturer & group leader in Lund University. Computational microbiologist, mostly working on toxin-antitoxin systems, ribosomes and bacterial defence against phages. Director of the LU-Fold protein structure prediction infrastructure of LU.
Atkinson-lab.com
Lucy Crouch @lucyicm.bsky.social 🦠Scientist 🧪loves gut microbes and CAZymes.
Sir Henry Dale fellow at the IMI, University of Birmingham.