Nika Shakiba @nikashakiba.bsky.social Asst Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC; stem cell engineer and synthetic biologist with a passion for science outreach and communication.
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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
Microbes.Info @microbesinfo.bsky.social Relaying microbiology news, articles and comments relevant to aspects on bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes / microorganisms. Microbes are 💪
Guillermo Nevot @nevoti.bsky.social Postdoc at Marc Güell's lab at UPF Barcelona | Engineering the microbiome to understand (and treat) the skin 🦠 #SynBio | Alumni LPI (former CRI) & UniZar | 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
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Yanrui Ye @yanruiye.bsky.social Associate professor @ South China University of Technology. Interested in synthetic biology, genome editing, and directed evolution.
TeselaGen Biotechnology @teselagen.bsky.social The AI-enabled operating system for biotechnology: https://teselagen.com/
Daniel Giguere @danielgiguere.bsky.social Building Canadian plasmid sequencing
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Prev: PhD @ Western, Scientist/Bioinformatics @ Volta Labs
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Giulio Chiesa @gchiesa.bsky.social research associate in @GartonLab, former @MoKhalilLab: synthetic biology, protein design and vibes.
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Hans Carolus @hanscarolus.bsky.social Molecular microbiologist fascinated by evolution and neglected pathogens. Postdoc at KU Leuven. Distiller of jenever. I unconditionally love yeast, one gave me a job, another gave me a hobby.
Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social Associate Professor at Université Laval| Canada Research Chair in Insect Vectors Invasions and Emergent Plant Diseases 🌿🪲 |Chercheur CRIV, IBIS, EDS | Senior Editor Plant Disease | CoFounder Pride in Microbiology 🏳️🌈 - Lab News: @eplopez.bsky.social
Manon Henry @manonhenry.bsky.social PhD candidate @UMontréal @ICMtl Systemic caracterization of fungal pathogens #Candida albicans #metal homeostasis #genomics #proteomics 
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Dylan Brettingham @dybrettin.bsky.social PhD student at UofGuelph in the EAV lab studying honey bee microbiome. Previously a cheesemonger, always a cheese lover.
Jackie Goordial @jackiegoordial.bsky.social Microbial ecologist, Assistant Professor @U. Guelph
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Nicholas Gervais @nickgervais.bsky.social PhD candidate developing CRISPR-based technologies to study pathogenic fungi 🧬🇨🇦
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
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Dr. Amy Lee @minisciencegirl.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ SFU MBB | Systems Biology of Host-Pathogen | Vaccinology | Neonatal Sepsis | Pathogen Genomics | Loves data, food & art.
Jim Sun, PhD @sunlab.bsky.social Associate Professor at @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social studying tuberculosis, macrophages, drug discovery. www.thesunlab.ca
Fabrice Jean-Pierre @fabricejpierre.bsky.social Assistant Professor @USherbrooke | Polymicrobial biofilms, interactions & mechanisms of recalcitrance | he/him
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Priyanka Pundir @priyankapundir.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Immunology @UoG MCB. Host-Microbe Interactions. Mom of Two. Swifite. 🇨🇦
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Cezar Khursigara @cmkhursigara.bsky.social microbiologist, microscopist, husband, father and rhythm guitarist (he/him)
Sophie Petropoulos @sophiepetropoulos.bsky.social Canada Research Chair of Functional Genomics in Reproduction & Development. Associate Prof. @ Karolinksa Institutet & Université of Montreal. Everything embryos, single cell genomics, DOHaD, ART👩🏼🔬🔬🧬🧫
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Genome Atlantic @genomeatlantic.bsky.social Genome Atlantic helps companies and industries to attract investments and leverage matching funding for applied genomics R&D initiatives. We work in partnership with clients across Atlantic Canada to deliver genomic solutions with long-lasting impacts.
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Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social - Prin Scientific Officer, NCID, Singapore
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Aleeza Gerstein @acgerstein.bsky.social Associate professor in microbiology (human fungal pathogens) & statistics (really just evolutionary genetics) at UManitoba in Winnipeg 🇨🇦
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🌍 Global Synthetic Biology Conference
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DNA Script @dnascript.bsky.social Revolutionizing biological research with enzymatic DNA synthesis technology. Our SYNTAX® DNA printer and advanced enzymatic methods produce longer, more complex DNA sequences for groundbreaking research applications.
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Carl de Boer @carldeboer.bsky.social Associate Professor, UBC school of Biomedical Engineering. Trying to enable personalized medicine by solving gene regulatory code.
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Trevor Charles @trevorcharles.bsky.social Black Canadian Microbiologist and Entrepreneur 🇨🇦
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Eileen Bates @eileen-m-b.bsky.social PhD student - Shapiro Lab - U of Guelph - Characterizing novel antifungal drugs 🍄🧬
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Marc Meneghini @marcmeneghini.bsky.social Former tennis prodigy wanna-be; now studying fungal viruses.
Nikki Case (they/them), PhD @nikcase.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher | Lab of Dr. Vasilis Kokkoris at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Fungi enthusiast – avid coffee drinker and rock climber
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Elena Kuzmin @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Dep. Biology, Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology, Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, School of Health, Concordia University | Adjunct Professor, Dep. Human Genetics, Goodman Cancer Institute, McGill University
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Canadian Journal of Microbiology @canjmicrobio.bsky.social A @cdnsciencepub.com journal reporting peer-reviewed research from all areas of microbiology, from molecular biology to microbial ecology.
Rebecca Shapiro @shapirorebecca.bsky.social Associate Prof @ U Guelph. Fungal genetics and functional genomics (she/her)
Britt Drogemoller @brittdrog.bsky.social 🇿🇦🇨🇦 Assistant Professor | Canada Research Chair in Pharmacogenomics & Precision Medicine
My lab is using single cell technologies and computational biology to understand the genetics of hearing loss & dementia
RNA Canada @rnacanada.ca non-profit organization of >300 RNA researchers from over 20 canadian universities and several companies working together to harness the power of RNA biology to improve therapeutics, diagnostics, agricultural and biotechnology advances. www.rnacanada.ca
Anastassia Voronova @amvoronova.bsky.social Cancer survivor. Canada Research Chair in Neural Stem Cell Biology. Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience. Killam Laureate. Associate Professor at the University of Alberta. Views are my own.
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Karas Lab @karaslab.bsky.social Synthetic Biology. Designer cells and organelles. Space plants and microbes. Antifungal. Antimicrobials. Optimization of DNA delivery: conjugation, cell fusion. Western University, Canada.
Mo Khalil @mokhalil.bsky.social Prof @ Harvard University, Broad Institute, and Wyss Institute.
Synthetic & systems biology.
Trying to understand the living world by engineering a synthetic one.
Lab website: https://khalillab.github.io/
bioRxiv Synthetic Biology @biorxiv-synthbio.bsky.social 
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
David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social Bacterial Immunity and Synthetic Biology enthusiast. Head of Lab at Institut Pasteur. Co-Founder of Eligo Bioscience.
Paul Jaschke @pauljaschke.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University | Engineering phage & microbes to discover and create new biology.🇨🇦🇦🇺 👨👩👦👦 🦠🧬
Abhishek Chatterjee @achemsynbio.bsky.social Professor @BostonCollege
Chemical Biology, Synthetic Biology, Directed Evolution, Expanding the genetic code https://sites.google.com/a/bc.edu/thechatterjeelab/home
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Ben Lehner @benlehner.bsky.social Solve Biology
Head of Generative Genomics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Systems + Synthetic Biology, CRG, Barcelona
http://barcelonacollaboratorium.com http://allox.bio https://www.sanger.ac.uk/programme/generative-and-synthetic-genomics/
Katie Kendig @katiekendig.bsky.social Philosophy & history of science, especially of classification• agriculture• synthetic biology• ethnobiology. Associate Professor, Michigan State University•runner•gastronaut
Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social Padre, curieux, scientist; sourdough engineer; evolutionary cell and systems biology; some attempts at synthetic biology and biomedical research;
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
Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social Synthetic Biology & Synthetic Genomics @ Imperial College London and the Sanger Institute. Bilingual in English and DNA. Views are either my own or my microbes'
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
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