David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Jon Skare Lab @therealjskare.bsky.social Cutting edge Lyme Disease and Relapsing Fever Borrelia research at TAMU Health. Views are my own (and the graduate student’s running this account @RNArebel)
Francois Lebreton @flebreton.bsky.social Director of bioinformatics at WRAIR-MRSN. Interests in microbial genomics, antimicrobial resistance and bacterial evolution.
Denise Selegato @deniseselegato.bsky.social Metabolomics Specialist at the @ZimmermannLab.
📍Heidelberg, Germany
🇧🇷
Virginie Stévenin @virginiestevenin.bsky.social Biologist fascinated by Cell Infection Dynamics and Microscopy.
Young PI at IPBS-Toulouse (https://www.ipbs.fr/)
Mom & Art lover.
Website: https://tinyurl.com/virginiestevenin
Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social Autistic consultant and writer with a Masters in Neuroscience.
white, nonbinary. they/them Opinions are my own. #SayNoToABA
www.AutisticSciencePerson.com
Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago. Study the pathogenesis of tuberculosis, and other mycobacterial infections. Opinions my own.
Mariola J Ferraro @mjferraro.bsky.social Currently working on Salmonella, Extracellular Vesicles, lipids and UPS
Camila Valenzuela, PhD @kamovalenz.bsky.social Senior Postdoc @enningalab.bsky.social, @pasteur.fr, always working on Salmonella host-pathogen interactions | Bookworm | Enjoyer of many fictional worlds | Mother of Cats | She/her 🩷💜💙
Pedro Escoll @pescoll.bsky.social How the metabolic crosstalk between pathogenic bacteria and host cells impacts infection? @pasteur.fr
Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social "There are no answers; only choices."
– S. Lem
I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music.
Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental.
Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social Physician-scientist, microbiologist, infectious diseases specialist, medical school professor. Opinions expressed are my own.
Rapsinski Lab @raplab.bsky.social Study ventilator-associated infections and Pseudomonas aeruginosa evolution in the airway of ventilated patients.
We use whole genome sequencing, experimental evolution, clinical samples, and in vitro airway epithelial cell models.
@KingOfPathogens @kingofpathogens.bsky.social 🏴 Cytokines Parasites
Jonathan Kagan @jkagan1.bsky.social Scientist at Boston Children's Hospital, Professor at Harvard Medical School, Husband, Father
@bcleonard12.bsky.social @bcleonard12.bsky.social
United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social UFW - fighting for farm workers since 1962. Sí Se Puede!®
Annika Hausmann @hausmannannika.bsky.social SNSF Ambizione Group Leader hosted by
the Slack Lab at ETH. Intestinal cellular crosstalk - immune cells - epithelium - bacteria: www.annikahausmannlab.com
Former EMBO Fellow @ Jensen lab, reNEW, UCPH 🇩🇰 & Hardt lab @ ETH 🇨🇭
cofounder SYIS & 🇨🇭rep yEFIS
Romana Gerner @romanagerner1.bsky.social MD and scientist interested in host-microbe interactions and mucosal immunity 🔬🧫🩺 Chair of Clinical Microbiome @Technical University of Munich.
Cadwell Lab @cadwelllab.bsky.social We investigate the interface between the immune system and diverse infectious agents ranging from friendly gut microbes and viruses to disease-causing parasites
Our Lab: https://www.med.upenn.edu/cadwell-lab/
Jee-Yon Lee @jeylee.bsky.social MD, PhD | Assistant Project Scientist in the Bäumler Lab at UC Davis. | Studying the impact of host-microbial interactions on non-communicable human diseases.
Casey Theriot @theriotmicrobe.bsky.social Professor in Infectious Disease, microbiologist, C. difficile, gut microbiome, metabolomics, microbial mediated bile acids, amino acids
Sarah D'Orazio @listerialady.bsky.social microbiologist | immunologist | educator
University of Kentucky
Bärbel Stecher @baerboletta.bsky.social Microbiologist interested in gut microbiota-pathogen interaction. Professor at TU Munich, PhD ETH Zurich, studies at LMU Munich and University of Warwick, UK.
Andrew Darwin @durkdarwin.bsky.social I have loved Microbiology since I got that microscope for Christmas, which was not all that long after that photo was taken. I still have the microscope…the boyhood looks, not so much.
Lisa Maier Lab | Tübingen @lisamaierlab.bsky.social Systematically dissecting the lifestyle of human gut microbes
Lauren Radlinski @laurenradlinski.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow in the Bäumler lab studying host-microbe interactions in the gut and vaginal tract. Here because I miss science twitter.
Radlinski lab coming to UChicago spring of 2027!
William Navarre @drxenogene.bsky.social Professor of microbiology at the University of Toronto Department of Molecular Genetics
Lars Bode @drlarsbode.bsky.social Professor of Pediatrics and Founding Director of the Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence (MOMI CORE) and the Human Milk Institute (HMI), all at UC San Diego.
Vladimir Diaz-Ochoa @sciencevlad.bsky.social PhD | Assistant Professor of Veterinary Immunology at UC Davis | Passionate about neutrophil biology, microbial pathogenesis, and systems approaches to studying their interactions.
Çagla Tükel @caglatukel.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology, immunology and inflammation. Interested in host-biofilm interactions, bacterial amyloid curli and microbial pathogenesis
Judith Behnsen @judith-behnsen.bsky.social Microbiologist. Associate Professor at University of Illinois Chicago studying microbe-microbe interactions. Loves fungi and bacteria.
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.
Sabine Ehrt @saehrt.bsky.social Scientist interested in mycobacteria, tuberculosis, NTMs, antimicrobial resistance. Prof. & Chair, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College
https://www.ehrtschnappingerlabs.org/
Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social Microbiologist working on Quorum Sensing, microbiota and microbe-host interactions. Working at Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine - GIMM, Oeiras, Portugal
John F. Rawls @jfrawls.bsky.social Exploring the physiology of host-microbiome interaction
Professor at the Duke University School of Medicine
https://sites.duke.edu/rawlslab/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-rawls-71b8118/
Roi Avraham @roi1avraham.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Weizmann Institute. Host-microbe interactions. #immunity #microbe. Lab: https://www.weizmann.ac.il/dept/irb/avraham/avraham-lab-homepage
Host Microbe interactions @hostmicrobelit.bsky.social Trying to keep up with the literature. Infection, microbiome, bioinformatics and multi-omics.
Kevin Forsberg @kvnforsberg.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, UT Southwestern. Posts are my own.
Lab Website: forsberglab.org
Banner Art: Tamanash Bhattacharya
Asaf Levy @asaflevylab.bsky.social Interested in computational biology, microbial toxins, plant microbiome, and microbial adaptation to different hosts.
PI at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
https://www.asaflevylab.com/
Expressing my personal opinions.
Michael Glickman @michaelglickman.bsky.social Physician Scientist interested in all things mycobacterial: pathogen, model system, and cancer therapy. Immunology program/ID MSK. Opinions are mine and do not represent those of employer, MSK.
Pubs: https://shorturl.at/GaVRW
Ashley Wolf @ashleyrwolf.bsky.social Microbiome research at UC Berkeley
awolflab.com
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.
Matt Olm @mattolm.bsky.social Assistant Professor at CU Boulder
Studying the human microbiome
https://www.colorado.edu/lab/olm/
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/
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.
Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social Assistant prof at UC Irvine. Ecology and evolution in microbial communities, and occasional writing.
https://kxuelab.com
Jan Claesen @claesengroup.bsky.social Associate Professor at Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic.
Lover of bacteria in isolation and in communities.
Dissecting the human microbiome on a molecular level.
🇧🇪🇺🇸 Father of two. Views are my own.
https://claesengroup.org/
Prof. Akiko Iwasaki @virusesimmunity.bsky.social We study antiviral immunity and viral disease pathogenesis. We are developing mucosal vaccine strategies to prevent infection and transmission. #COVID19 #longCOVID #vaccines
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/
Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social Assoc. Professor, Purdue U. (via India - U. Maryland, College Park - UCLA - UCSD/HHMI). Having fun studying Fic proteins, from bacteria to humans. #AMPylation
#HypothesisFund
https://www.bio.purdue.edu/lab/mattoo/
Dutchscientist (the real one) @dutchscientist.bsky.social Microbiologist @ Vet School, genomics/pathogens. Views, compliments and rants are my own. ORCID: 0000-0003-0203-1305. Am trying to avoid getting politics in my mentions, science and cats OK!
Mary Weber (Weber lab) @mweberlab.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. Studying host-pathogen interactions, with a focus on Chlamydia and Orientia effector proteins and host cell biology.
Feldman Lab@WashU @feldmanlab.bsky.social We love bacteria!! Especially Acinetobacter and Bacteroides. The lab is in Dept. of Molecular Microbioloy @WashU in St Louis
Zach Lonergan @zrlon.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Microbiology at Rutgers University, interested in the chemical biology of microbial stress responses.
www.lonerganlab.org
Rob Kingsley @drrobkingsley.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology @uniofeastanglia and Group Leader @TheQuadram, Norwich, UK - genomics, AMR, host-pathogen interactions, phage, microbiome
Editor Communications Biology
Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago Dept of Microbiology, studying Acinetobacter-host interactions and stress responses. Views my own. she/her
Valeria Reyes Ruiz @reyesruiz.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW-Madison| HHMI Hanna H. Gray | Host-pathogen interactions during S. aureus infections | From Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 | Views are my own
Elizabeth Grice @elizgrice.bsky.social Professor and PI, UPenn Dermatology and Microbiology. Everything #skinmicrobiome. Back on social media after a 2 year hiatus! Views my own. she/her/hers
Matthew Lawrenz @lawrenzlab.bsky.social Professor studying how bacteria evade the immune system. Goal to develop new therapeutics to protect people from infections. Opinions my own.
Kim Davis @davislabjhu.bsky.social Associate professor @Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH. Studying heterogeneity within bacterial populations during infection & implications for antibiotic susceptibility.
Dana Shaw @shawlab.bsky.social Associate Professor at WSU studying how and why ticks transmit disease 🦠🕷🩸🧬🧫
www.shawlab.org
Lilliana Radoshevich @radoshevichlab.bsky.social Scientist interested in ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in host defense to intracellular pathogens; based at National Jewish Health in Denver. Excited about proteomics, Listeria, Francisella and SARS-CoV-2. Views are my own
Sebastian Winter @sewinter.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis Health.
Host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions. Gut microbiome. Model trains.
Opinions are my own.
Michael Shiloh, MD, PhD @michaelshiloh.bsky.social Physician-scientist at UT Southwestern Medical Center (Infectious Diseases; Immunology; Microbiology; Neuroimmunology). All views my own.
Lab website: https://labs.utsouthwestern.edu/shiloh-lab
Jacqueline Kimmey @jkimmey.bsky.social Microbiologist at UC Santa Cruz. Streptococcus pneumoniae, circadian rhythms, pneumonia, inflammation. www.kimmeylab.com
Jose Bengoechea @josebengoechea.bsky.social Working on innate immunity & host-pathogen interactions. Finding new ways to treat infections by antibiotic resistant bacteria. All views are my own.
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
Petra Dersch @pdersch.bsky.social Infection Biologist, pathogenic bacteria, microbial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, regulatory RNAs
Head of the Institute of Infectiology, University Münster, Germany
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
ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social Physician-scientist at UC San Diego, Microbiology, Immunology, Novel Drug and Vaccine Discovery, #IDSky, Mentoring and Supporting STEM Career Development.
Enjoy exploring the outdoors, world cultures, sports, comedy, community.
http://nizetlab.ucsd.edu
Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social Innate immunity/host-pathogen interactions. Husband, father, former Soviet immigrant. Opinions my own.
Ada Weinstock @aweinstock.bsky.social Immunologist interested in obesity and its related inflammation, macrophages, immune progenitors and more @UChicagoMed (weinstocklab.owlstown.net)
Laura Mike @lauraamike.bsky.social Mike Lab @ Pitt-ID
www.themikelab.com
Studying how Kleb regulates capsule properties and causes infection
#klebclub | #newPI
Lars Barquist @lbarquist.bsky.social Assistant prof @ UofT, associated scientist @ Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research. Pathogen systems biology / informatics / functional genomics. Coastal New Hampshirite. Drink Moxie.
Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social Bioinformatician and microbiologist at Flinders University in Adelaide. @linsalrob on all your socials
Corrie Detweiler @csdetweiler.bsky.social Microbiologist researching anti-infectives, Prof at University of Colorado, Editor in Chief of #MMBR (Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews), an American Society of Microbiology (ASM; @asm.org).
Victor J. Torres @torreslab.bsky.social Scientist fascinated by infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions and bacterial infections. Views my own 🇵🇷 #CienciaBoricua #MacFellow #MRSA
Pride in Microbiology @prideinmicro.bsky.social A community-building and networking initiative aimed at improving justice and belonging for 2SLGBTQIA+ microbiologists in academia and beyond!
Website: https://prideinmicro.org/
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/carlzimmer/
Web: http://carlzimmer.com
[This account includes a tweet archive]
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.
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
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.)
Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org I am not a deep man, but I have many shallows. ctbrown@ucdavis.edu, http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/.
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
Helen Parrington, Ph.D. @heatshock-helen.bsky.social She/her, 🇨🇦/🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦, virologist, SCUBA diver, guinea pig owner
Dr. Candace Williams @canda007.bsky.social Microbiome Scientist | microbes-metabolites -(mostly)mammals | she/her | Views are my own | |🐘🦏🐻🐯🐼👤🦎🐸🐭💧🦠 |
Dr. Aisha Burton @aishaburton.bsky.social Microbiologist | Educator | Assistant Research Prof @ Cornell Micro | Studying small proteins |💛🐩💙 | burtonlab(dot)com | Views are my own
Denise Akob @deniseakob.bsky.social Microbial ecologist, biogeochemist, mom, & crazy cat lady. All around microbial cheerleader and science nerd. Chair of the 2025 Appl Env Micro @ GordonConf.
Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social #scimom #scicomm sharing stories of our #microbe world. Associate Professor @TowsonU! @microbialTowson @craftymicrobiology #microbiome #microbiology #GirlScoutAlum www.mostlymicrobes.com mostlymicrobes.redbubble.com
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
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
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.
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.
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
Joe James @tallcuppajoe.bsky.social Scientist by nature, microbiologist by chance. NBA fan. Trying to make things better. Founder of Binning Singletons. ADHD AF.
Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social Mosquitoes, watches and whatever. Huck Chair of Disease Epidemiology and Biotechnology at Penn State. My opinions do not reflect those of my employer (they want nothing to do with them whatsoever)
rasgonlab.wordpress.com
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
Erin Goley @goleylab.bsky.social Bacterial cell biologist.