Aaron Behr @eventhandler.bsky.social PhD candidate 💩 Bhatt Lab @ Stanford Medicine
Transposable elements, structural variation, and rapid evolution in microbes & microbiomes.
💻🧬🦠🏳️🌈
Previously: Software Engineer @ Oracle (Cambridge, MA)
Ann Gregory, PhD @gregoryannc.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at the Uni of Calgary in the Dept. of Biological Sciences | Viromics & One Health | www.integrativeviromicslab.com
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.
Nelia Perry @neliaperry.bsky.social Fulbright Fellow @ Australian Museum Research Institute | Pomona College Alumna | Molecular Biologist
Arezoo Pedramfar @apedramfar.bsky.social Research Scientist #Bacteriophages #Phage-Host-Interaction #PhageTherapy #Metagenomic #AMR Views are mine! #WomenLifeFreedom
Plasmid Society @plasmidsociety.bsky.social 
@andreacarroll.bsky.social @andreacarroll.bsky.social 
Theo Josephs @theojosephs.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Leicester researching bacteriophages and their ecological strategies. Passionate about all things phage, bioinformatics, and microbiology.
James Gurney @jamesgurney.bsky.social Assistant professor working on phage. Occasional writer/fact checker for kurzgesagt. I didn’t write dinotopia.
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.)
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
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/
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
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
Justin Meyer @justinmeyer.bsky.social UCSD Prof, phage experimental evolution, first gen uni, LGTBQIA+, yinzer, wastes time on politics
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
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
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
Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social Microbiology, evolution, and bacteriophages. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
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)
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
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
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=OBPpZq4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
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://mdmlab.fr/
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
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
Bryan Gibb @bryangibb2.bsky.social Associate Professor in microbiology at New York Institute of Technology studying bacteriophages (mostly). 
Cathy Hernandez @cathyhernandez.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina | bacteria x (pro)phage x environment | hdzlab.com
Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social Bacteriophages, dormant bacteria, and bacterial immunity. Assistant Professor of Molecular Phage Biology at ETH Zürich.
Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgia State University
Art by Arwa Abbas
Ben Adler @benadler.bsky.social Postdoc @ Doudna Lab - UC-Berkeley | Bacteriophage engineering | CRISPR | Biotechnology | Microbiology | All Combinations Thereof | He/him. Opinions my own.
Anne Chevallereau @annechevallereau.bsky.social Group leader @CNRS, @MMSB (Lyon, France) studying how viruses interact and evolve with other MGE and with their host #bacterial_immunity #sociovirology #phages #Pseudomonas.
Simon Roux @simrouxvirus.bsky.social Virus-obsessed bioinformatician, DOE JGI Scientist, Enjoy exploring the viral world with #metagenomics and other cool #omics toys. He/him. Opinions my own. 
Luis Zaman @luiszaman.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at University of Michigan in Complex Systems and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. We study coevolution with phage and self-replicating computer programs! 
Michelle Hulin @michhulin.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Michigan State University. Bacterial plant pathogen genomics and evolution 🧬🌱. Loves running, travel and my rescue greyhound 🐶 She/her
Eduardo Rodríguez-Román @erodriguezroman.bsky.social Biologist|Human(-ist). Virus-host systems. Origins.
https://linktr.ee/erodriguezroman
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
Atif Khan @atifmicro.bsky.social PhD | Scientist | Bhabha Atomic Research Centre | Bacteriophages for Industrial Biofilm & Biofouling | Phage Therapy for MDR Infections, soon in India | Phage Advocacy and Learner
🦠🏥🧬
🌍 Chennai, India 🇮🇳
🖥️ https://atif.phage.directory/
Sarit Avrani @saritavrani.bsky.social Cyanophage and other phages, evolution and ecology, really excited of new genomes, University of Haifa, Israel. https://www.avranilab.haifa.ac.il/
S Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social evolution & math = a super interesting job
Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social Eukaryote growing prokaryotes so I can infect them with phages. 2024 BBSRC Fellow at the University of Warwick. Unapologetically leftist.
Anne Kupczok @annecmg.bsky.social Assistant professor at Wageningen University, interested in Comparative Microbial Genomics, Phage genomics, Evolution
Tiga Khalek @tigak.bsky.social PhD student at University of Oxford. Using viruses for good, not evil 🧫. Phages, AMR, Lasers and other exciting stuff 🔬🧪🤓
Cress Lab @cresslab.bsky.social The Cress Lab | Innovative Genomics Institute @ UC Berkeley | Microbiome Editing | Microbiome Delivery Technologies | Phage and MGE Functional Genomics | Hiring!
https://www.cresslab.bio/
Tiffany Luong @scientiff.bsky.social postdoc at SDSU in the lab of Dwayne Roach (www.phagebio.org)
ARCS scholar, phage enthusiast. 🦠
Kasia @phagehunterkw.bsky.social Phage Hunter/Microbiology/Molecular Biology/Data Science | Interested primarily in phage therapy/antibiotic resistance/gut | Student(@UMSL) | mom | Backpacker/trail hiker
🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇸 she/her (St Louis, MO)
Paul Jaschke @pauljaschke.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University | Engineering phage & microbes to discover and create new biology.🇨🇦🇦🇺 👨👩👦👦 🦠🧬
Center for Phage Technology @phagetechnology.bsky.social Located at Texas A&M University. Devoted to the study of bacteriophages for human health and agriculture. Home of the CPT Galaxy/Apollo phage annotation system. Cpt.tamu.edu 
Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social I engineer and manipulate viruses, in the literal sense.
#Cdiff #phage #CryoEM
MRC DiMeN DTP PhD Student @University of Sheffield | Int BS-MS @NISER Bhubaneswar | Former Intern @MPI Evol Bio, Plön
Rafael Rezende (Rafa) @faelrezende.bsky.social PostDoc at Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil.
Hunting microbe viruses!
Exploring Ralstonia phages!
Archana Anand @archanand.bsky.social Global Change Microbiology; Phage-host interactions; Nature based solutions; Assistant Professor @SFSU, Former Postdoc @columbia @stanford MSc PhD from @HKUniversity BEng @NUSingapore @Natgeo explorer
Lab: theanandlab.com
Project: phagepathways.com
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/
Olaya Rendueles @olayarendueles.bsky.social Microbial evolution & ecology, focus on surface structures (capsules) and HGT (#plasmids #phages), mostly in #Klebsiella #MicroSky
From #Asturias 🇪🇸 living in 🇫🇷
@CNRS
ⵃⴰⵎⵣⴰ - Hamza @brophage.bsky.social Sciencer, phage phanatic, mutants maker, viral dark matter explorer, polyglot, happy goat.
Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social https://antanij.netlify.app/
Microscopy of bacteria and their viruses.
Scientist @yale.edu @paulturnerlab.bsky.social. Phage researcher, biotech enthusiast.
Research Facilitator @omibs-mbl.bsky.social
Sabrina Green @motherofphage.bsky.social Phage scientist @KULeuven in Belgium | Science communicator | Phage therapy advocate for patients
Website motherofphage.com
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
naturepoker @binomicalabs.org Binomica Labs independent researcher by day, warehouse worker by night
Small thoughtful science
#phylogenetics #archaea #evolution #bioinformatics #phage
@naturepoker@genomic.social
http://naturepoker.wordpress.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6977-5440
Patrick Kenney, MD MS @patrickkenney.bsky.social Med-Peds ID, phage discoverer, more importantly husband and dad. Posts are my own. #medsky #IDsky #askmedpeds #phagetherapy
The Phage Collection Project @phagecollection.bsky.social Join us in our citizen science initiative exploring phages! A project run by Early Career Researchers at the University of Southampton
https://www.phage-collection.org
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 🏴
@lisabono.bsky.social @lisabono.bsky.social 
Ombeline Rossier @ombelinerossier.bsky.social Microbiologist fascinated by host-microbe interactions. T5 phage aficionado. Bacteriophage hunter. Associate Professor at Paris-Saclay University
Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social
Sarah Kuhl MD, PhD @sarahkuhl.bsky.social Infectious Disease and Allergy-Immunology physician
Microbiology PhD
Bacteriophage therapy researcher
Joint Genome Institute @jgi.doe.gov We are a DOE User Facility providing access to integrative genome science capabilities. Located at Berkeley Lab. Work with us: http://jointgeno.me/proposals_B
Elizabeth Burgener, MD @ebburgenermd.bsky.social pediatrician, pulmonologist, clinician scientist, phage hunter, Pseudomonas slayer and mother of 2 boys. Stanford Peds --> Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
Lukas Malfertheiner @lukasmalf.bsky.social PostDoc in the von Mering lab. Interested in microbial ecology, phages and bioinformatics.
www.microbeatlas.org
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.
Fernando Gordillo Altamirano @nandogordillo.bsky.social Think of me as serendipity: you weren't looking for me but, luckily enough, you found me.
Phages, lifting, puzzling, reading. Certified geek.
🇪🇨🐵💪🏽🏋🏾🎶🔬🇦🇺
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/