Maier Biophysics Lab @maierlab.bsky.social Welcome to Maier Lab!
Our research focuses on bacterial mechanics & evolution. Here, we update you on our current research. Account run by lab members
Website: https://biophysics.uni-koeln.de
Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne
Krishnendu Bera @krishnendubera.bsky.social PostDoc @the-gold-lab.bsky.social, @exeter.ac.uk 🇬🇧
Former PostDoc @Magistratolab.bsky.social, CNR-IOM @SISSA, Italy 🇮🇹
PhD @CEITEC.eu @masarykuniversity.bsky.social, Czechia 🇨🇿
CryoEM/ET🔬🦠MD Simulation, IDP/IDR, MetaD, AI/ML👨💻
Details: https://h1.nu/1tsfv
Amith Suresh Babu @amithsbabu.bsky.social Pre-Doctoral Intern at Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology 🦠🔬
Paul Masset @paulmasset.bsky.social Assistant Professor, McGill University | Associate Academic Member, Mila - Quebec AI Institute | Neuroscience and AI, learning and inference, dopamine and cognition
https://massetlab.org/
Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social Chair, Computational BIology and Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.
Associate Professor, Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto.
Disclosures: https://github.com/michaelmhoffman/disclosure/
Fabrice Jean-Pierre @fabricejpierre.bsky.social Assistant Professor @USherbrooke | Polymicrobial biofilms, interactions & mechanisms of recalcitrance | he/him
https://www.fjplab.com/
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=N5UlGZgAAAAJ&hl=en
Mahesh Jethalia @mjethalia.bsky.social engineer. 
Gyana Prakash Mahapatra @gyanaprakash.bsky.social Ph.D Student @Schuller Lab in Marburg University | Structural Biologist | #Microbiology🦠 #Biochemistry🧬 #CryoEM/ET❄🔬
🇮🇳->🇨🇦->🇩🇪
ernestiu.bsky.social @ernestiu.bsky.social Anything about #cytoskeleton and #microscopy
Postdoc at the Gardel lab
@velezensis.bsky.social @velezensis.bsky.social 
Richard Marcotte @richardmarcotte.bsky.social Scientist NRC, Prof. Associe, Universite de Montreal et
Affiliate member Goodman Cancer Institute McGill University. Functional genomic in cancer and immune cells, Cell engineering, gene editing, CRISPR/Cas. Views are my own
Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social Biologist, McGill University
Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social learning | basal ganglia | birdsong | neuroethology | decision-making | natural history | Current K99 Postdoc Rich Mooney @Duke | PhD Christina Gremel @UC San Diego
On the faculty job market 2026-27: https://drewschreiner.github.io/
Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social Scientist and Global Sales Director at 3i (@the.3i.social), foodie, family man. Tai Chi and meditation matter. Compassion Heals. Microscopes Rock. https://www.intelligent-imaging.com
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)
Estefania Sanchez-Vasquez @niasv.bsky.social NIGMS K99/R00 fellow 🍌🐌
HSRU postdoctoral fellow
Development & Stem cell bio
🌈 UNMSM 🇵🇪 UNSAM 🇦🇷 UCSC/Caltech 🇺🇸
Ranked News @rankednews.bsky.social Ranked News is the most diverse, unbiased/uncensored free news platform. Articles ranked, summarized and translated in +200 languages. More in the iOS/Android app.
iOS app https://apps.apple.com/app/ranked-news/id6753876990
Website: https://Ranked.News
Oligonucleotide Therapeutics & Delivery Conference @otdc-2026.bsky.social Sciinov Group welcomes you to the “Oligonucleotide Therapeutics and Delivery Conference 2027, taking place on May 11–12, 2027, in Boston, MA, USA.
Website: https://oligo-nucleotide.com
@epigeneticcongress.bsky.social @epigeneticcongress.bsky.social 
J. Carlos R. Hernandez-Beltran @charly-evos.bsky.social Microbial experimental evolution (with a plasmid heart).
Modelling, microscopy, image analysis and whatever can be transform into code.
Uzair Ali, PhD @uzair93.bsky.social uzairalibiotech.github.io
Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social Fascinated by fungal growth & asymmetries. Institute of Biology Valrose, CNRS-Inserm-Université Côté d’Azur, Nice. Microscopy addict, all things cell biological
Guim Aguadé-Gorgorió @guimaguade.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at ISEM Montpellier. Physicist studying complex biological systems - ecosystems, cancer, immune networks and microbial communities.
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Aisha Syeda @aishasyeda.bsky.social Biophysics research fellow interested in genome stability.
Alfredas Bukys @abukys.bsky.social Biochemistry DPhil at the Berks lab, University of Oxford.
🔬🦠
Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD @junlab.bsky.social We study quantitative microbial cell physiology.
https://jun.ucsd.edu
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
-African Proverb
Angelo Taglialatela @angelotaglialatela.bsky.social Research Scientist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
uncited @uncited.org Literature monitoring for scientists. uncited aggregates journal and preprint feeds into one clean interface. Here, we post the most-bookmarked papers across the platform • uncited.org
Thara @tharaantony.bsky.social Structural Bio Intern at CGE, IBS (2023-2024)| MS Thesis at IISER Pune (2023)| SRFP 2022 UoH Intern (IAS-INSA-NASI)| Masters in Biotechnology
Angel J Hernández Viera @angeljhv.bsky.social Graduate student at UW-Madison in the lab of Charlie Mo (@molabuw.bsky.social) studying CRISPR and phage resistance in staphylococci. 🇵🇷🌴
Cédric Moisy @cedric-moisy.bsky.social Research scientist 🍇🖥️🌱🦠🔬
Plant Pathology | 3D+t imaging | MRI | Xrays tomography | IA | Image Analysis 🔎☢️🧲
Trunk diseases | Fungal Pathogens | Genetics | Molecular Biology | Grapevine | Breeding & Selection
French Wine and Vine Institute, France 🇫🇷
Instituto de Química Física Blas Cabrera (IQF-CSIC) @iqf-csic.bsky.social Multidisciplinary research focused on health, biotechnology, new materials and environment.
Investigación multidisciplinar para resolver los retos actuales en los ámbitos de salud, nuevos materiales y medioambiente.
Deegan Lab @deeganlab.bsky.social Research group at MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh working on DNA replication (https://institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/research/research-groups-a-z/deegan-group)
Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social Scientist: durocherlab.org @ Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto.
Founder: Repare Therapeutics & Induxion Therapeutics
Kevin Lang @kslang.bsky.social Assistant professor at the University of Minnesota studying how host-microbe interactions impact genome integrity.
langlab.info
Owen Maresh @graveolens.bsky.social Mathematics Sorceror (sensory alchemist) at the Arctangent Transpetroglyphics Algra Laboratory (ATAL), I transflarnx mathematics into living rainbows. http://owen.maresh.info https://github.com/graveolensa,
Psoepbe-Tlaxtlal; (an undreamt splendour?)
@nachirulo21.bsky.social @nachirulo21.bsky.social 
@mystica-rat.bsky.social @mystica-rat.bsky.social 
Nitin Kapadia @kapadia-lab.bsky.social Group leader in the Physical Sciences of Life @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, interested in systems biology, cell transitions, information processing in cells, and single-molecule biophysics. Previously @crick.ac.uk | @biomcgill.bsky.social | @utoronto.ca
Avilien Dard @avdar66.bsky.social #MSCA #Postdoc, Van Breusegem Lab #VIB -UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology #plantscience #redox
https://linktr.ee/Avilien.dard
Sami Chaaban @sami-c.bsky.social Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute starting January 2027. Currently postdoc in the Carter Lab (MRC-LMB), previously PhD in the Brouhard Lab (McGill University)
https://sami-chaaban.github.io/
Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social Molecular evolution, chromatin, archaea and oddball biology. Associate Professor @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social Fellow @trinityoxford.bsky.social
Alvaro Sanchez @asanchezlab.bsky.social CSIC Professor and Principal Investigator of the Quantitative Biology group at IBFG in Salamanca. Previously at Yale EEB, CNB-CSIC. Our group works on building predictive models of biological teams. More information at www.sanchezlaboratory.weebly.com
Symbiosky @symbiosky.bsky.social Make Decisions Through Conviction,
Fund Public Good like Journalism, Academic Content, Education
https://www.symbiosky.com/
alfredo heRNANDdez @alfredohernandez.bsky.social nucleic acids, polymerases, helicases, and mitochondria at Tufts University
George Yakoub @georgeyakoub.bsky.social Molecular biologist, interested in mechanisms of DNA replication and repair, transcription conflicts, ubiquitylation, and splicing🧬🔁🛠️🧬🔀📝🏷️🔗✂️🧵
Ernesto Arias-Palomo @eariaspalomo.bsky.social Molecular and Structural Biologist | Group Leader @CIB_CSIC
Cryo-EM of Protein-DNA Interactions. Molecular machines.
Denise Selegato @deniseselegato.bsky.social Metabolomics Specialist at the @ZimmermannLab.
📍Heidelberg, Germany
🇧🇷
Tomas Brom @tomasbrom.bsky.social Doing Structural biology stuff 🧬 sometimes 🧪 at Masaryk University
Peter Repetti @monstera999.bsky.social 🌱 Biologist. I take 🐦 photos and vibecode, sometimes at the same time. Personal projects archived @ ppr3.com. Train your ear, know the birds: Learn @ https://chipnotes.app I also do fun guy 🍄 stuff @ cluegen.com
Sung Hyun Kim @sunghyun-kim.bsky.social Biophysics, Travel, Beer, Coffee, Photography, Archaeology and History.
Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán @jerorb.bsky.social We study Antibiotic Resistance Ecology and Evolution · Ramón y Cajal University Hospital · Madrid · www.evodynamicslab.com
Hervé (rv) Técher @rvtecher.bsky.social Hervé (rv) TÉCHER, Chair of Professor Junior @Univ_CotedAzur
and team leader @ircaninstitute. Investigating Genomic Instability 🧬 and inflammation. 🇫🇷 🇷🇪 🇨🇳 🇮🇹. Opinions are my own.
https://www.ircan.org/research/teams/herve-techer/
Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social Light Microscopy Manager at Brandeis University. I help people do cool science. Lover of all
things microscopy & microbiology 🔬🦠
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/
@stapleslab.bsky.social @stapleslab.bsky.social 
Unterholzner Lab @unterholznerlab.bsky.social Our group at @BLSLancasterUni investigates how the innate immune system detects infection and injury. We like DNA sensing, host-pathogen interactions and cancer immunology.
Anja Geitmann @geitmannlab.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Biomechanics of Plant Development. McGill University, Montreal, Canada. www.plantbiomechanics.net.
For my administrative role follow me on X at @AnjaGeitmann
Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Department of Biological Sciences. Fascinated by bacterial decision-making.
https://labs.bio.cmu.edu/bridges/
Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social Macrobe qui aime les microbes
http://www.shapirolab.ca/
Naomichi Takemata @naomichitakemata.bsky.social Studying archaeal 3D genomes at Ritsumeikan University, Japan
https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=Q34_N9wAAAAJ&hl=ja#
Aditya Sethi @adityasethi.bsky.social (he/him) Postdoc at the Genome Replication Lab at Institute of Cancer Research London https://costerlab.com/ | 🏳️🌈
Jovana Kaljević ⬜️ @jovanakaljevic.bsky.social Senior scientist | Agrounik, Serbia
Postdoctoral scientist | JIC, UK
PhD | de Duve institute, Belgium
Passionate about killing bacteria and watching them die under the🔬
Yeeles Lab @yeeles-lab.bsky.social Our group at the LMB in Cambridge is dedicated to uncovering structures and mechanisms of the replisome.
https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/t-to-z/joseph-yeeles/
Jen L, PhD @drjkyl.bsky.social Executive Editor/Team Lead Open Access Science & Medicine Journals Sage Publishing
Opinions = mine
http://linkedin.com/in/jlovick-editor
#oncology #cancerresearch #medicine #biology #cardiology #neurology #microbiology #publichealth #healthcare
Health Citizens Institute @healthcitizens.org From Environment to Health
From Science to Policy-Making
Christopher H. Bohrer @cbohrer3141.bsky.social Postdoc at NIH/NCI, PHD at Hopkins
Jean-Yves Bouet @jyb-tlse.bsky.social Microbiologist, Molecular genetics, DNA, Genome Dynamics
Research director CNRS
Group leader at CBI
DNA replication and Genome Integrity Lab @ CIB-CSIC @bermejolab.bsky.social We investigate the process of chromosomal DNA replication and its impact on genome function and stability using molecular genetics and strand-specific genomics
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Miguel Gómez-Raya @miguelgrv.bsky.social Postdoc in the Cell Biology and Virology of Archaea Unit @pasteur.fr
Archaea is the coolest domain of life! 🔬🦠
PPU PhD @pasteur.fr, Mart Krupovic
MSc Microbiology @helsinki.fi, Mikael Skurnik
BSc Biomedicine @UB.edu
@duderstadtlab.bsky.social @duderstadtlab.bsky.social In our lab, hardcore biochemistry meets physics. And coffee. We are investigating DNA replication through single molecule loupe @ Technical University of Munich and MPI of Biochemistry
Louis-Marie Bobay @lbobay.bsky.social Associate Professor. NC State. Microbial Genomics, Evolution, Bioinformatics.
Juan Carvajal Garcia @jucarvag.bsky.social Ramón y Cajal investigator at the IPBLN-CSIC. My lab studies how bacteria mutate, evolve antibiotic resistance, and repair their DNA. Oviedo->Chapel Hill->Nashville->Granada. No hay que llegar primero, pero hay que saber llegar.
Afroze Chimthanawala @afrozec.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at Kapanidis Lab, Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery | Former Postdoctoral researcher at Saurabh Lab, NYU | PhD at Badrinarayanan Lab, NCBS (TIFR)
Breah LaSarre @blasarre.bsky.social Molecular microbiologist intrigued by all things bacteria.🧫🦠🌱🪲🧬🧪Research Scientist. Current focus: genetics, ecology, and evolution of bacterial plant pathogens. Opinions expressed are solely my own.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2723-8217
Naomi Mittet @naolimit.bsky.social Circadian sleep disorders advocate. Raising awareness for Non-24 in sighted people. #DSPD mom of a #Non24 young adult. Former board member at https://csd-n.org. Full time caregiver. She/Her.
Cover photo by Daniel Kordan.
Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social 🦠🧪🖥🧬microbial ecology & evolution | agricultural microbiomes | food security | metabolism | 🐝🌺 host-microbe interactions | functional -omics | bioinformatics | salsa | philosophy | equality | UNAM | mSystems / mBio
polyimmigrant! 🇲🇽🇸🇪🇦🇺🇨🇭
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
Bertolin Lab @bertolinlab.bsky.social https://www.dundeegenomeintegrity.org
https://www.dundeegenomeintegrity.org/researcher/agostina-bertolin/
Understanding genomic stability and human disease through a DNA replication lens| Wellcome-funded Group Leader| Former Diffley postdoc, Crick
Samuel Bensoussan @bensoussansamuel.bsky.social I'm a PhD student at Institut Jacques Monod in "Pathologies de la Replication de l'ADN" lab and I successfuly validated my Master/Magistère de Génétique diploma at Université Paris Cité in 2024.
Chathuddasie Amarasinghe @chathuddasie.bsky.social Biophysicist | Microscopist | Grad Student
CSEM @csem.ch CSEM is a Swiss technology innovation center developing advanced technologies with a high societal impact, which it then transfers to industry to strengthen the economy. The non-profit orientated, public-private organization is internationally recognized.
David Solecki @so-lets-kilab70.bsky.social Posting our lab life studying the neuronal cytoskeleton and chromatin with cool microscopes🔬Proud #GenX, #firstgen college, #intj @RITscience @stonybrooku Alum
Verified: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8481-0403
Fabai Wu @fabaiwu.bsky.social Ass Prof of Microbiology at EITech Ningbo. www.microwulab.com
JacobsWagnerLab @jacobswagnerlab.bsky.social Research interests: Bacterial replication, antimicrobials, and Lyme disease. Stanford, HHMI.
@555bert.bsky.social @555bert.bsky.social 
Beatrice Toia @beatricetoia.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Interested in telomeres, DNA damage, innate immunity.
Morgan Jones @04mjone.bsky.social Structural biologist working to understand chromosome replication. Group leader at University of Oxford, Biochemistry
@lucky-clover-again.bsky.social @lucky-clover-again.bsky.social 
Y Hoang @hoanghamyy.bsky.social Assistant Professor at SUNY Upstate Medical University
We study bacterial organelles, including biomolecular condensates.
NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award recipient
Agathe couturier @agathe-couturier.bsky.social PhD in Microbiology,
Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow - UCLouvain - LalouxLab
Prey - Predator interactions
#Bdellovibrio
Former in @LesterlinLab - #conjugation
ORCID : 0000-0003-0923-253X
Binayak Mohapatra @binayak97.bsky.social A passionate molecular biologist, figuring out the process of translation initiation in Yeast 🤔
Cat Zhang @catzsj.bsky.social PhD student at BC Cancer, Vancouver, CA. focusing on DNA damage repair, cancer research, and cancer medication development
Shiori Iida @shiori-iida.bsky.social Postdoc (JSPS Fellow) at Wickström lab, MPI-Münster🇩🇪, PhD at NIG/SOKENDAI🇯🇵
Cell differentiation, Mechanobiology, Chromatin.
Microscopy-obsessed🧡🔬
https://linktr.ee/shiori_iida
Alexis Lomakin, Ph.D. @alexis-lomakin.bsky.social Fascinated by the regulatory logic behind cell phenotype-environment interactions: How biological cells leverage the structural information encoded in protein molecules to morph themselves into shapes and sizes conferring environmental stress resistance.
Mathew Jones @jonesmjk.bsky.social Investigating kinase-dependent regulation of DNA replication and repair