Medical Microbiology & Immunology @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social Comprehensive, scientific research and instruction on microbiology and immunology as they relate to human disease.
RTs ≠ Endorsements
www.mmi.wisc.edu
Microbes.Info @microbesinfo.bsky.social Relaying microbiology news, articles and comments relevant to aspects on bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes / microorganisms. Microbes are 💪
ASM @asm.org ASM is a global community shaping the future of the microbial sciences to tackle some of the world's most pressing challenges.
Microbes Make Our World.
Thomas P200 Burke @findmeinthelab.bsky.social Asst Prof at UC Irvine. Studying host-pathogen interactions, microbial cancer therapies.
Expert takes on unserious content
burkelab.medschool.uci.edu
Jörn Coers @coerslab.bsky.social Scientist at Duke University. My team studies cell-autonomous immunity to intracellular pathogens and inflammation. Views are my own and do not represent those of my employer.
Bella Rauch @rauchlab.bsky.social I study infection and inflammation, specifically inflammasomes + host-pathogen interaction at barrier tissues. Epithelial cells are the best. Associate Prof. @ohsummi.bsky.social Opinionated opinions mine. ALIEN. She/her
Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social All views and opinions expressed are my own.
@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social #DevBio Lab at NorthwesternU Studying Pluripotency, Neural Crest Stem Cells and the Evolution of Vertebrates. Recovering Former Dept. Chair, Diversity Advocate. Past President Society for Developmental Biology.
Nancy Moran @nancy-moran.bsky.social Research biologist and lover of nature, mostly bacteria, insects and (lately) birds
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
PROFS @profsuwmadison.bsky.social PROFS is a UW-Madison faculty advocacy organization supported entirely through voluntary faculty contributions. Reposts are not endorsements.
Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social Facts & strategy, in an authoritarian takeover.
Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities.
We work to cure diseases like cancer.
Pers views. #science #medicine
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
Proudly #AltGov
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Jan-Ulrik Dahl (Dahl lab, ISU) @janulrikdahl.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. @ at Illinois State University. We study the molecular secrets of bacterial stress responses.
https://about.illinoisstate.edu/jdahl1/
David Tobin @tobinlab.bsky.social Scientist at Duke studying tuberculosis, host susceptibility to infection, and mycobacterial pathogenesis. Views are my own and do not represent those of my employer.
Dr. Kristi L. Frank @kristilynnfrank.bsky.social Microbiologist. Assoc. Prof. at Uniformed Services University. Marylander now. Minnesotan before. Montanan 1st and always. Views mine, not my employer's.
Alison Criss @alisoncrissuva.bsky.social Professor and Vice Chair of Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology, University of Virginia. Chair, Mechanism Discovery Unit, American Society for Microbiology. Fascinated by neutrophils & Neisseria.
Judith Behnsen @judith-behnsen.bsky.social Microbiologist. Associate Professor at University of Illinois Chicago studying microbe-microbe interactions. Loves fungi and bacteria. 
Cecilia Martinez-Gomez @cecimglab.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC-Berkeley, Plant and Microbial Biology Department. Microbial physiology, lanthanide-biochemistry, methylotrophy, biometallurgy, plant-microbe interactions. (she/her)
@UCBerkeley @PMB_Berkeley
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
Jon Boyle @boylelab.bsky.social Professor of Biology at University of Pittsburgh. Toxoplasma evolution placenta interactions virulence development. tragically a pirates fan can’t help it 
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
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 Abramovitch @abramovitch.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology.
Tuberculosis research and drug discovery. www.abramovitchlab.com
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.
Petra Levin @redrockcity.bsky.social Microbiologist, mom, runner w/delusions of completing a marathon. Dog enthusiast. This Week in Microbiology (https://www.microbe.tv/twim/).
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
Shonna McBride @shonmcbride.bsky.social Molecular Microbiologist studying C diff and friends. Opinions are my own.
Kim Davis @davislabjhu.bsky.social Associate professor @Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH. Studying heterogeneity within bacterial populations during infection & implications for antibiotic susceptibility.
Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago Dept of Microbiology, studying Acinetobacter-host interactions and stress responses. Views my own. she/her
Killian Campbell @kdc509.bsky.social Postdoc in the Lang Lab, University of Minnesota
PhD in the Barber lab, UOregon Biology
Microbial evolution and drug resistance
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Z-KToTMAAAAJ&hl=en
Henrique Serezani @hserezanilab.bsky.social innate immunity, inflammation, host defense and soccer dad!
Jeff Freiberg @jefffreiberg.bsky.social ID physician scientist studying S. aureus and antibiotic treatment failure. Views my own.
William Navarre @drxenogene.bsky.social Professor of microbiology at the University of Toronto Department of Molecular Genetics
UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the UW Madison MDTP - G @grieshaberlab.bsky.social @grieshaberlab.bsky.social
Rita Tamayo @ritatamayo.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology, C. difficile pathogenesis, Latina in Science, parent of 2, she/her. Views are my own.
Mysorekar Lab @mysorekarlab.bsky.social Professor & Chief, Infectious Diseases, Passionate about research in #UTIs #viralInfections #autophagy #bladder #placenta #aging #immunity #translationalresearch #mentoring
#operabuff #worldcuisine #cooking&hosting
AMR-kleb/staph @s-rowe-conlon.bsky.social 
Joe Dillard @sacculus.bsky.social Bacteriologist. We study Nesseria, Gardnerella, and all things related to peptidoglycan. Professor at UW-Madison.
@jylmatson.bsky.social @jylmatson.bsky.social 
Lori L. Burrows @dr-lori-burrows.bsky.social Retired microbiologist, McMaster U 🇨🇦 • type IV pili, phages, biofilms, antibiotic resistance • equestrian🐴 • cancer survivor🎗️
Dan Nomura @dannomura.bsky.social Professor of Chemical Biology and Molecular Therapeutics at UC Berkeley
Tania Wong @taniawong.bsky.social Assistant Professor & Chancellor Scholar
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Center for Immunity and Inflammation | Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Host-pathogen interactions, innate immune and metabolic responses
Shana McDevitt @shana-nigens.bsky.social Genomic Sequencing Lab Director, UC Berkeley; connoisseur of oddities.
Here for some chuckles and maybe some learning.
Opinions are my own not UCB, although spawned from a career in NGS from 454 and Solexa into the great sequencing beyond.
Sarah D'Orazio @listerialady.bsky.social microbiologist | immunologist | educator
University of Kentucky
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).
Rauf Salamzade @raufs.bsky.social Interested in microbial ecology & evolution.
Views are only my own. (he/him, 🇺🇸, 🌎)
https://github.com/raufs
SFM Microbial Pathogenesis @sfmpathogenesis.bsky.social Community of researchers interested in understanding the molecular & cellular mechanisms that pathogens use to colonize their hosts. #microbiology #infection
Section of the French Society for Microbiology
Doran Goldman @goldmandoran.bsky.social UW-Madison Microbiology PhD candidate in the @molabuw.bsky.social, studying phage infection in microbial communities. Microbial ecology & evolution. Fan of birds, books, bacteriophages, and Beckett.
Çagla Tükel @caglatukel.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology, immunology and inflammation. Interested in host-biofilm interactions, bacterial amyloid curli and microbial pathogenesis
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social Professor of Translational Immunology • Infection & Immunity • Public Involvement and Engagement • Scientist and migrant • Superbugs
Cori Fain @corifainphd.bsky.social https://x.com/Cori_Fain HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow | Neuroimmunologist and mother of three. #Neuroimmunology #NativeinSTEM #firstgen #NSPeeps #WomenInScience
@nnadig.bsky.social @nnadig.bsky.social Graduate student | Microbiology Doctoral Training Program | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Jason Peters lab | Pathogens | Antibiotic Resistance | CRISPR
Jess Kelliher @10403jess.bsky.social 
Leigh Knodler @leighknodler.bsky.social Australian first | Scientist second | Professor at The University of Vermont | FirstGen | Lover of germs, especially Salmonella and their type III secretion systems
Becky Lamason @lamasonlab.bsky.social Associate professor at MIT studying host-pathogen interactions
lamasonlab.org
Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social Study genetic conflicts professionally. Try to avoid conflicts in personal life (with mixed results).
Fred Hutch Basic Sciences,
UW Genome Sciences,
HHMI.
Posting in a personal capacity. My posts don’t reflect my employers’ opinions.
Chelsey Spriggs @drsprggs.bsky.social Virologist. Assistant Prof. at UMich. DEI Advocate. Detroit Girly. #BlackInMicro
Salvador Almagro-Moreno @bioetry.bsky.social Emergence and evolution of bacterial pathogens
Complexity in biological systems
Dept. of Host-Microbe Interactions
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
NSF CAREER. BWF PATH
Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. Microbes, evolution, and infectious disease.
Dad and husband.
barberlab.org
Dr. Sunny Shin @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania | bacterial pathogens & innate immunity | Chair, Microbiology, Virology, Parasitology Graduate Program | she/her | mom | daughter of immigrants | #FirstGen | opinions are my own
Lab: sunnyshinlab.com
Michal Caspi Tal, PhD @immunofever.bsky.social Immunoengineer at MIT BE developing predictive diagnostics. Captivated by #inflammation, #SexDifferences #Lyme, #COVID, #IACI, #IACC and #onehealth. Mom of 2. prev/ PhD in Immunology @Yale; PostDoc @Stanford
https://talresearchgroup.mit.edu/
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
Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social Scientist, Huck Professor: Microbiome, Virome, Symbiosis, Evolution, Genetics, Phylosymbiosis, Holobiont, Wolbachia, Phage | Director of One Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social | SciEd: @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social | @holobiontbiology.bsky.social
Carolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social Microbiologist 🧫🧪 | Microbe-Microbe interactions in infection | Mom of 👧🏼👦🏼🐶| Asst. Professor at UTK | Views my own 
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.
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
Erin Goley @goleylab.bsky.social Bacterial cell biologist.
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.
Laura Cook @laurainthelab1.bsky.social Associate Professor at Binghamton University
Microbiologist, bacterial-host interactions, Streptococcus
Christina Stallings @stallingslab.bsky.social Laboratory interested in mycobacterial pathogenesis and lung inflammation
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 🇨🇦🧫🧬⚗️
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.)
Trina McMahon @quendi.bsky.social Loving microbes, water, genomes, computers, and Wisconsin. Proud GenXer. Mom to a very spicy 2e teen boy and a sassy little girl with big plans to change the world. #resist
Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social I study how bacteria kill plants. Interested across biological scales: molecular 🧬, cellular🦠, organismal 🧫, ecological 🥀🌍, and evolutionary 🧬.
Optimistic pessimist: The world is dark, so how can we slow the decline?
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. 
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
Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social Asst Prof of Micro and Immuno in Chicago | antimicrobial resistance💊| Acinetobacter baumannii-host interface🦠| views my own | she/her
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
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
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
Mariana Byndloss @maribyndloss.bsky.social 🇧🇷 🇺🇸 DVM/PhD | Host-microbiota metabolic interactions | Associate Professor | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | Mom | Dog lover | Views are my own
Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social assistant prof at University of Pennsylvania
studying metabolic flux- NCI R00 awardee- also i do bad jokes (she/her)
https://bartmanlabpenn.squarespace.com/
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.
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
Shai Bel (The Mucus Man) @mucusman.bsky.social The Bel Lab, boldly going where no one else bothers to. @erc.europa.eu funded lab. Opinions are my microbiota's. www.thebellab.com
Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social Distinguished Professor University of California Davis
Member, NAS, AAM, Leopoldina, AAAS
Views are my dog's
Victor J. Torres @torreslab.bsky.social Scientist fascinated by infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions and bacterial infections. Views my own 🇵🇷 #CienciaBoricua #MacFellow #MRSA
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/
Amanda Jamieson @amandamjamieson.bsky.social GenX 👩🔬 studying innate immunity/host tolerance in pneumonia and wounds. Assoc. Prof. of MMI and director of @BrownUPathoGP and NIH-PREP at Brown. 
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
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
@cammielesser.bsky.social @cammielesser.bsky.social 
Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social Professor, University of Geneva. We study Enterococcal biofilms, pathogenesis, and AMR. Formerly @KimInSingapore 🌴.
https://kimberlyklinelab.com/
Ed Yong @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
Karla Satchell @karlasatchell.bsky.social Northwestern University Microbiology Professor studying Vibrio toxins, Structural Biology, COVID and RAS degraders. Supporting women as leaders in Science.
Suzana Salcedo @suzanasalcedo.bsky.social Passionate about bacteria and host cell responses to infection. 🇵🇹&🇺🇸 and a bit 🇫🇷 Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Opinions my own.