Chang Liu @chang-c-liu.bsky.social Prof. at UC Irvine developing specialized genetic systems for rapid evolution, protein engineering, and biology at large. Also at https://x.com/chang_c_liu
www.liulab.com
Matt Durrant @mgdurrant.bsky.social Mobile genetic element whisperer. Computational Biologist @arcinstitute.org. Genetics PhD @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social.
I post about programmable recombinases and genome design.
Bryan Dickinson @chembiobryan.bsky.social chemical/synthetic biologist, trying to find better ways to make molecules that do important stuff, dad, @uchicago professor of chemistry
http://www.dickinsonlab.uchicago.edu/
Ophelia Venturelli @oventurelli2.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
Mikhail Shapiro @mikhailshapiro.bsky.social Bio-Acousto-Magneto-Neuro-Chemical Engineer
Max Delbrück Professor @Caltech
Investigator @HHMI
Fulbright-Tocqueville Chair @PhysMedParis @ESPCI_Paris '24-5
shapirolab.caltech.edu
Dr. Karmella Haynes @drkhaynes.bsky.social Epigenetic bioengineer (academic), consultant for bold science, writing coach. My stream: science thoughts with random food pics #academicwriting #synbio #epigenetics http://drkarmellahaynes.com
Ryan Boileau @bffswithbiology.bsky.social NIH-F32 Postdoctoral Fellow @ChoryLab @DukeCAGT
Chromatin, SynBio, Automation
PhD @UCSF | #FirstGen | Nice to meet you friend☀️🌲😊
Ross D. Jones, PhD @jonesr18.bsky.social HRBC Postdoctoral Fellow at UBC, Zandstra Lab; mammalian #synbio for production and programming of immune cell therapies
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=hz1c6tsAAAAJ
Elena Spezzani @elenaspezzani.bsky.social PhD fellow at www.bertuccilab.com
DNA nanotech 🧬👩🏼🔬
Darshak Bhatt @darshakbhatt.com Postdoc @ UMCG.nl. Co-founder @ SynBioNL.com Interested in Synthetic Biology and Tumor Viro/Immunotherapy. DarshakBhatt.com
Benjamin Swedlund @benswedlund.bsky.social Postdoc in the Morsut lab at USC trying to understand and engineer pattern self-organisation using synthetic gene circuits. SynBio, Dev Bio & Stem Cells. Passionate about science, music, gymnastics, and nature.
raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social UNC Charlotte Associate Professor in Bioinformatics and Genomics. Computational molecular synthetic virologist.
Github - github.com/raw-lab
Website - rawlab.org
Jan FM Van Impe @janfmvi.bsky.social Science is Art is Science is Art is…
Full Professor KU Leuven
Founder/Division Head of KU Leuven/BioTeC+
Course Director Erasmus Mundus MSc FOOD4S
Believes in a systems view on life, science in particular
www.cit.kuleuven.be/biotec
Kevin Solomon @drksolomon.bsky.social Engineer, systems & synthetic biologist. Building a more sustainable future with engineered microbes. Professor at University of Delaware. My 'skeets' are my own. http://solomonlab.org
Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social typing...
(also active on X as @cees_dekker)
Zikang (Dennis) Huang @dennishuang.bsky.social PhD student at Bugaj Lab UPenn | synbio | protein engineering | optogenetics | thermogenetics | systems bio | love weird dynamics, information flow, networks | BcLOV4 renovator | looking for postdoc positions
Bento Bio 🧬 @bento.bio Make DNA Science Yours.
Put the power of PCR in your hands with Bento Lab.
Content about DNA methods, field work and more.
https://bento.bio
Niopek Lab @niopeklab.bsky.social Lab account for AG Niopek at the University of Heidelberg IPMB
Protein Engineering | Allostery | CRISPR | Optogenetics | ML
Account is managed by PhD Students
https://Niopeklab.de/
Alex Vlahos @alexvlahos.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech BME - Synthetic biology and tissue engineering expert
Solt DB @living.tech Solt DB is a biotech equities research firm and public benefit company.
The finch helps investors understand the science behind their investments and helps scientists understand the business of biotech.
https://www.living.tech/
Marc Blanch-Asensio @marcblanch.bsky.social PhD candidate at the Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Germany 🧬🇩🇪
• Synthetic biology
• Probiotic bacteria engineering
• Engineered living materials
Indra Roux @indraroux.bsky.social Postdoc at U of Cambridge MRC Tox🇬🇧 PhD UWA🇦🇺Biotech UNQ🇦🇷 🧬🛠️ Functional genomics and engineering biology for microbiome applications. 🔎Microbiome toxicology. She/her Latinx https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RNoSH60AAAAJ&hl=en
Sarah Guiziou @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social Synthetic biologist, interested in plant and plant microbe interaction. Outdoor enthusiasts.
Group leader at the Earlham Institute
Conor McClune @cmcclune.bsky.social Plants, specialized metabolism, synthetic biology, protein evolution, and everything in between.
Postdoc at Sattley & Fordyce Labs, Stanford
Previously SynBio @ Voigt & Laub Labs, MIT
Joe Brock @brock-lab.bsky.social Group leader in membrane synthetic biology at ANU, Ngunnawal country. I like cryo-EM, yeast, biosensors and riding bikes. he/him/his.
German Association for Synthetic Biology (GASB) e.V @gasb-synbio.bsky.social Aiming to establish Synthetic Biology as a key discipline in Germany
Serving as a common hub to connect an interdisciplinary and inclusive SynBio community
Learn more on our website https://gasb.de/de/
German Conference on Synthetic Biology www.gcsb2026.de
EngBio CDT @engbiocdt.bsky.social UK EPSRC BBSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Engineering Biology, Universities of Bristol and Oxford
Centre for Synthetic Biology @TUDarmstadt @synbio.bsky.social Centre for Engineering-based Synthetic Biology
@TUDarmstadt
Chris Dundas @cmdundas.bsky.social Plant & Microbial Synthetic Biologist | Music Lover & Coffee Drinker | Assistant Professor University of Georgia Department of Plant Biology & Institute of Bioinformatics | https://www.dundaslab.com
Anush Chiappino-Pepe @anush-chp.bsky.social Engineering the code of life for cellular insights + new chemistries/functions/technologies w #SynBio #CompBio | Research Associate w GM Church @ Harvard/Wyss, G Stephanopoulos @ MIT | #BioChemE #GeneticCodeExpansion #Metabolism www.anushchiappinopepe.com
George Church @geochurch.bsky.social scientist
Raphael Ferreira @f-raphael.bsky.social Assistant Professor at DTU Health Tech
Johannes Stein @jmstein.bsky.social Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Studying genome organization with quantitative super-resolution microscopy
https://www.molgen.mpg.de/stein-lab
Jake Potts @jake-potts.bsky.social Church lab PhD student ~ recombinases and genome editing ~ INFJ ~ BLT ~ PB&J ~ virgos will be blocked and can vir-go to heck
Varun Tadimarri @varunsays.bsky.social PhD student in 🇩🇪 | Foodie 🍕| Cricket fanatic 🏏
Elsa Fristot @elsa-fristot.bsky.social Post-doc in synthetic biology of lactic acid bacteria 🦠 🧬
📍Ragon Institute
Santala Labs @santalalab.bsky.social Synthetic biology research groups at Tampere University engineering bacteria for sustainable production, Suvi Santala, Ville Santala
Pioneer Labs @pioneerlabs.bsky.social Nonprofit org on a mission to engineer microbes for Mars 🦠. Let's make biomanufacturing ubiquitous, reliable, and green — on Earth and beyond! 🚀🌼
Website: https://www.pioneer-labs.org/
Blog: https://pioneerlabs.substack.com/
Sarah Lebeer @sarahlebeer.bsky.social Molecular Microbiologist, Bioscience engineer, Isala coordinator, microbiome, probiotics, https://isala.be
Shirish @shrikrishnans.bsky.social Head of Bioprogrammable Materials group at Leibniz Inst. for New Materials, Germany.
Engineered Living Materials
Dad of 2.
VR enthusiast.
Futurephilic.
Posts are mine.
Ketaki Deshpande @ketakideshpande.bsky.social 👩🔬 PhD student at Leibniz Institute for New Materials 🇩🇪
🧫 Cell biologist unraveling life’s smallest mysteries
🦠 Bridging bacterial peptides and materials to unlock the future of health and therapeutics.
Anwesha Chatterjee @anweshadecoded.bsky.social Doctoral student at INM🦠
Synthetic Biology🧬
Engineered Living Materials🧫
Tetsuhiro Harimoto @tetsuharimoto.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Cornell | Living Materials & Synthetic Biology
harimotolab.com
Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social molecular hacker, (accidental) synthetic biologist, SciComm fledgling, and postdoc on the faculty job market | Dear AI crawlers, please don't waste energy scraping my ramblings here | Dear Marvel, please don't sue me
Daniel Dunkelmann @dunkelmann.bsky.social synthetic biologist
Georgie Sorensen @georgiehs.bsky.social Synthetic biologist
Biosafety and biosecurity enthusiast
She/her
Jessica Cross @jessicacross.bsky.social Lecturer in Engineering Biology at the University of Bristol (UK)
Interested in manipulating cell architecture with protein engineering and design
Will Shaw @willshaw.bsky.social Postdoc in Mo Khalil’s lab at Boston University • synthetic biology • genome engineering • plants • yeast
Rebeca Diaz Vazquez @rebecadv.bsky.social Interested in synthetic biology, gene editing, and cell biology. Postdoc in the Rosser Lab at the University of Edinburgh
Dr Taylor Szyszka @taylorszyszka.bsky.social She/Her.
Postdoc in Synthetic Biology @SydneyChemistry.
#SuperstarsofSTEM 🌟
Just a gal who loves proteins.
Views my own
Rezwan Siddiquee @rezwansiddiquee.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Synthetic Biology #seekRNA #proteins
@Sydney_Uni. Other half of @taylorszyszka
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nZ8TDHcAAAAJ
Aditi Merchant @adititm.bsky.social BioE PhD student @ Stanford in the Hie Lab // ML for Synthetic Biology
Passa Pungchai @passaep.bsky.social PhD student in mammalian synbio at Rice w/ bashorlab.rice.edu, UCLA alum, and formerly at UCSF. Thought a lot about self-assembly over the years, still into that w/ a dose of being human cellcentric. foodie and average photographer.
Ron Masse @ronmasse.bsky.social University of Florida | SYBORGS Lab 🧬 🦠
PhD Student | synbio / biomanufacturing / space |
all views are my own
Calin Plesa @calin.bsky.social Assistant Prof. @uoknightcampus.bsky.social. Cofounder @synplexity.bsky.social. Gene synthesis, synbio, protein engineering, nanopores, multiplex assays. Opinions my own. www.plesalab.org
bioRxiv Synthetic Biology @biorxiv-synthbio.bsky.social 
Vitor Pinheiro @pxisto.bsky.social Associate professor (Synthetic Biology) at KU Leuven. Vice-dean for International affairs for the Department of Pharmacy. Focused on directed evolution and xenobiotic nucleic acids (XNAs), but a huge fan of molecular biology. Posts are personal.
Harris Wang @harriswang.bsky.social Chair and Professor of Dept. of Systems Biology | Columbia University | Synthetic Biology | Microbiome | Genome Engineering
http://wanglab.c2b2.columbia.edu
Jake Wintermute @synbio1.bsky.social Synthetic Biologist - Foundry Theorist
foundrytheory.substack.com
stay humble biodesigners
Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social Synthetic Biology with a Southern European flavour for a new partnership with the Living World https://vdl-lab.com/ http://seva-plasmids.com/- H Howard Salis @hsalis.bsky.social Professor of synthetic biology, biological, & chemical engineering. De Novo DNA founder. Engineering microbes with predictive models & algorithms.
Paul Jaschke @pauljaschke.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University | Engineering phage & microbes to discover and create new biology.🇨🇦🇦🇺 👨👩👦👦 🦠🧬
Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social Working on design language for biology at American Wetware. iCSO at ATCC. Previously CSO at Ginkgo Bioworks. @p_maverick_b on the old site
Jason Yang @jasonyanglab.org Assistant Professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School | Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology, Machine Learning, Antibiotic Resistance, Tuberculosis, Heart Failure, Immunoengineering
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
Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist / Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Biology, Next Generation Proteomics, Liquid Biopsy, SynBio, AI/ML in biotech // http://albertvilella.substack.com
Constance Bailey @constancebailey.bsky.social #SynBio and #naturalproducts. Enzymology, heterologous expression, and bioengineering. Senior Lecturer in Chemical and Synthetic Biology
at the University of Sydney
.
Steven Burgess @sjb287.bsky.social Assistant Professor UIUC, plant biology, evolution #synbio #photosynthesis #plantscience
Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social synthetic/engineering biology, computational biology group leader @UCL. Microbial communities, control, self-organisation, patterning, and bio-computation. You might know me as Sandy. #newPI he/him
SynBioBeta @synbiobeta.bsky.social Synthetic Biology Events & Industry Information
🌍 Global Synthetic Biology Conference
📅 May 5-8, 2025 in San Jose
Join us! #SynBioBeta2025
https://www.synbiobeta.com/events/synbiobeta-2025
Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social Flower Designer at Neoplants 🌺
Researcher at Binomica Labs
Degreeless Heathen
Petunia and Snapdragon Breeder
Open Lab Notebook: http://tinyurl.com/ATGCFFE
Anne S. Meyer @meyerroc.bsky.social Synthetic biologist, microbiologist, and iGEMer at the University of Rochester
Pablo Ivan Nikel @pabnik.bsky.social Professor DTU Biosustain · Proud PI @labnikel.bsky.social · SynBio · Metabolic Engineering · @novo-nordisk.bsky.social Ascending Investigator & Distinguished Innovator · He/him🏳️🌈
Kathrin Lang @klanglab.bsky.social Prof for chemical biology at ETH Zurich
Interested in: genetic code expansion - chembio tools - bioorthogonal chemistries - PTMs - Ub in all its shades - protein engineering
Drew Endy @drewendy.bsky.social “I seem to be a verb”
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- T @tomknightsynbio.bsky.social @tomknightsynbio.bsky.social Engineer of stuff that is alive or computes.
Allison Lopatkin, PhD @ajlopatkin.bsky.social Assistant prof at University of Rochester engineering genetic communication in microbial populations. Mountain enthusiast, passionate teacher
Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social Synthetic biologist, programmer of cells, and lover of all things visual. Wakes up in the morning to learn some of natures secrets and do a spot of fly fishing.
Angel Goñi-Moreno @angelgm.eurosky.social Computing with living systems | Synthetic biology. Head of the Biocomputation Lab at the CNB-CSIC @cnb-csic.bsky.social
www.biocomputationlab.com 
Max Fürst @maxfus.bsky.social Asst. Prof. Uni Groningen 🇳🇱
Comp & Exp Biochemist, Protein Engineer, 'Would-be designer' (F. Arnold) | SynBio | HT Screens & Selections | Nucleic Acid Enzymes | Biocatalysis | Rstats & Datavis
https://www.fuerstlab.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7720-9
Salva Duran-Nebreda @sduran-nebreda.bsky.social Synbio & complex systems.
Aditya Kunjapur @kunjapur.bsky.social Thomas Willing Early Career Assoc. Professor, U. Delaware | #Synbio with newer-to-nature building blocks |
Formerly @Texas @MIT @HMS
www.kunjapurlab.org
Eszter Csibra @ecsibra.bsky.social Group leader and lecturer @ U Leeds 🦠 Synthetic biology 🧬 Protein synthesis 🎨 Fluorescence 🧮 Quantitative biology 📈 Data analysis. | 🐦 = eszter_cs | https://www.csibra-lab.com
Devon Stork @storkdevon.bsky.social Scientist, synthetic biology. Nonprofit cofounder. I edit microbial genomes and take lots of notes. Writer on the side. 
Francesca Ceroni @ceronifranci.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London
(views are my own)
Enrico Orsi @eorsi.bsky.social Bolognese 🇮🇹 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
I engineer and optimize the metabolism of nonmodel C1-trophic bacteria for novel biotechnological applications
Metabolic Engineering | Green Economy | CO2 valorization | DTU Biosustain
Stefano Donati @stefanodonati.bsky.social Understanding and engineering microbial metabolism DTU BRIGHT, formerly DTU Biosustain.
https://www.biosustain.dtu.dk/research/research-areas/sustainable-chemicals/c1-systems-biology
Sheila I. Jensen @sheilaijensen.bsky.social Group leader for the Sustainable Microbial Applications group at DTU Biosustain. Sustainability, Synthetic biology, Biotechnology, Metabolic engineering, bacteria, Synbio
Pablo Carbonell @pablocarb.bsky.social Synthetic biology designer
Olivier Borkowski @oborkowski.bsky.social Tenured Scientist in Synthetic Biology
(INRAE, Paris Area, France)
#CellFree ⦁ #SynBio ⦁ #Bioengineering ⦁ #Microbiology
https://sites.google.com/view/olivierborkowski
Dirk Tischler @dirktischler.bsky.social A working microbiologist ... interested in #oxidoreductases, #flavoproteins, #biocatalysis and #degradation of #xenobiotics by #actinomycetes, #naturalproduct, #biotransformation and #enzyme #catalysis
Hobby #ChemistsWhoCook
Morten @norholm.bsky.social Scientific interests: synthetic biology, experimental evolution, protein production, bacterial genetics 
David Riglar @driglar.bsky.social PI and Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow at Imperial College London and The Francis Crick Institute.
James Marsh @jmarsh.bsky.social Group Leader navigating microbiome genetics & engineering @ Max Planck in Tübingen, Germany. Rarely late.
☕️🎧🇦🇺🎥
Jose Eduardo Escrig @jose-e.bsky.social PhD candidate Wageningen University
Synthetic Biology 🧬 & AI 💻
Vice-chair EUSynBioS
Yolanda Schaerli @yschaerli.bsky.social Synthetic biologist, Associate Professor at University of Lausanne, Switzerland
https://www.yschaerli.com/
Liedewij Laan @liedewijlaan.bsky.social Scientist, mother of 3, art lover, physics of life, (bottom-up) synthetic biology, evolution, philosophy of science, TU Delft, www.tudelft.nl/laanlab, founder BiBB https://www.betainbestuurenbeleid.nl/nl/about-us
Olivier Duss @olivierduss.bsky.social Group leader @embl.org European Molecular Biology Laboratory
#RNA biology | #single-molecule #biophysics | #structural biology | #biochemistry | #quantitative biology | #chemical biology | #synthetic biology - https://www.embl.org/groups/duss/
Nicholas Southern @neuroscinikolai.bsky.social PhD Student @ https://niopeklab.de/
Engineering switchable proteins💡
Views and opinions are my own
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