Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis
Work: phylogenomics & microbiomes; wildlife and aquatic microbiology; #openscience;
Other: #birds; baseball; T1D
Lab phylogenomics.me
Pics jonathaneisen.smugmug.com
Links linktr.ee/jonathaneisen
TED go.ted.com/6WPm
phage @clubmoss.bsky.social
Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social Professor, USC Marine and Environmental Biology, microbe hunter. Dad, husband. he/him. Not a bot. thethrashlab.com @the.thrash.lab
Paul Turner Lab @paulturnerlab.bsky.social Experimental evolution of viruses for basic science and evolutionary medicine at Yale Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Tweeting papers & news from our group. Acct managed by lab members.
Timofey Skvortsov @timskvortsov.bsky.social Lecturer in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at the School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast. #Phage, microbes, genomes, computers.
Arezoo Pedramfar @apedramfar.bsky.social Research Scientist #Bacteriophages #Phage-Host-Interaction #PhageTherapy #Metagenomic #AMR Views are mine! #WomenLifeFreedom
Michael Shamash @michaelviridae.bsky.social PhD candidate at McGill University (@mcgill.ca) studying #phages in the infant gut #microbiome (he/him) 🔬🧫🧪 #phagesky #microsky
📍 Montreal, Canada
🔗 https://shamash.me
Malcolm White @mfwhite2.bsky.social Molecular microbiologist at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. My scientific interests include: CRISPR, antiviral defence, cyclic nucleotide signalling, archaea, nucleases.
Libusha Kelly @microbegrrl.bsky.social Microbiome, drugs, phages, ecology, AI, the Bronx
Dr. Katie D'Amico-Willman @k8iebird.bsky.social Postdoc @ NC State, phage ecologist, genetics lover, practicing scientist, dog/cat mom, gardener, knitter
Shelby E Andersen @shelbyeandersen.bsky.social 🐈⬛🪷🦠 PhD candidate in the Duerkop lab @ University of Colorado - Anschutz studying antiphage function and evolution
Tom Ireland @tomireland.bsky.social Science writer, editor of The Biologist, & author of THE GOOD VIRUS, a Times book of the year 2023.
Bioscience, tech, cricket & comedy.
https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist
https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/tom-ireland/the-good-virus/9781529365283/
Antonia Sagona @antoniasagona.bsky.social Reader (Associate Professor) in School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK.
Interested in bacteriophages and phage therapy.
J.O.K.Emmanuel🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @emmanuelkuffo15.bsky.social |Music|Photography| Microbes| Genomics| AMR| Phage phan| MSc @MarthaClokie Lab @uniofleicester|PhDing @ucc @teagasc @pharmabiotic| labtech @seqbiome| 🇬🇭 @EmmanuelKuffo15 on twitter
AA (Adjie) Pratama @adjiep.bsky.social Joint-Postdoc in Küsel_lab, UniJena and Sullivan_lab, OhioState | alum UniGroningen| #firstgenphd | he/him/his 🏳️🌈| I study viruses
https://www.aadjiepratama.com
Miguel Gómez-Raya @miguelgrv.bsky.social Postdoc in the Cell Biology and Virology of Archaea Unit @pasteur.fr
Archaea is the coolest domain of life! 🔬🦠
PPU PhD @pasteur.fr, Mart Krupovic
MSc Microbiology @helsinki.fi, Mikael Skurnik
BSc Biomedicine @UB.edu
stochastic stef @stochasticstef.bsky.social PhD candidate Northwestern University CEE | Hartmann & Wells Labs | phage | computational biology | wastewater systems | built environment | 🦠🧬💻💧 | she/her
Gina Suh @ginasuhmd.bsky.social ID doc at Mayo Clinic interested in phage therapy and Ortho-ID
Dr.Prasanth Manohar @prasanthmanohar.bsky.social Phage Biologist | Postdoc in Young lab @CPT Texas A&M | Interested about ‘All things phage’s’🦠 (ssRNA phages, single gene lysis, phage discovery, phage lysis system, and phage therapy) 📚Author, editor and 🎓scientist. ❤️🇺🇸🇮🇳
W: https://prasanthmanohar.in/
Clara Torres-Barceló @clara-inrae.bsky.social Researching the diversity and interaction of phages with plant pathogenic bacteria 🌱🔬 | INRAE | PHIM | Montpellier, France. 🇵🇸
Lori L. Burrows @dr-lori-burrows.bsky.social Retired microbiologist, McMaster U 🇨🇦 • type IV pili, phages, biofilms, antibiotic resistance • equestrian🐴 • cancer survivor🎗️
Justin Clark @jrclark.bsky.social Bioinformatician and Molecular Biologist in Houston.
North Carolina native
Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social Macrobe qui aime les microbes
http://www.shapirolab.ca/
Emre Gencay @wholelysedup.bsky.social
Osterman Ilya @ostermanilya.bsky.social Group Leader at EMBL Hamburg.
https://www.embl.org/groups/osterman/
@yvesbriers.bsky.social @yvesbriers.bsky.social
Eugen Pfeifer @eugenpfeifer.bsky.social Junior Professor @
MICALIS, Jouy-en-Josas, INRAE (France)
Passionated about gut phages, especially the temperate and episomal ones (phage-plasmids).
Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social Microbiology PhD student @ Uni of Birmingham, specialising in bacteriophage, AMR and the gut microbiome. Award winning disability campaigner 🏳️🌈 #ActuallyAutistic, #ADHD, she/her.
biolucy.co.uk
Pedro Leão @pedroleao.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Radboud University 🇳🇱 | Brazilian microbiologist 🇧🇷 | Impact of virus-host interactions in Ecology and Evolution 👀
https://vee-lab.eu
Andrea Silverj @silverja.bsky.social PhD, Computational Evolutionary Biologist working on viral metagenomics, phylogenomics, and AI.
• Postdoc @ucalgary.bsky.social
• Previously @cibiocm.bsky.social
--| https://andrea-silverj.github.io/ |--
𝕏 : @silverjand
Jeroen Meijer @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social postdoc at Viral Ecology and Omics group, @microverse.bsky.social @uni-jena.de. Phages, metagenomics, evolutionary modeling, microbial communities, kendo.
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.
Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social Our team is studying bacteriophages that are viruses infecting bacteria. Since 2006, Laurent Debarbieux has reignited a research lab about phage therapy following the pionnering work of Félix d'Herelle started in early 20th century.
Julia Frunzke @frunzkelab.bsky.social Professor at Forschungszentrum Jülich and HHU Düsseldorf. Phage-host interaction, regulatory networks, metabolic engineering, SPP 2330
New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-Host Interaction @spp2330.bsky.social DFG funded Priority Programme SPP2330 focusing on prokaryotic virus-host interactions. Account managed by Dr. Eva Davoudi
Homepage https://spp2330.de/
Enea Maffei @phagemuffin.bsky.social Post-doc at D-HEST, ETH Zurich. PhD in microbiology at Biozentrum, Basel. Phagehunter. Hiker. Scout. Music and food enthusiast. Per aspera ad astra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0751-9572
James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social Writing a book about horizontal gene transfer and non treelike evolution. Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology. Pangenomes. https://profmcinerney.substack.com/ 🇮🇪 https://mol-evol.github.io/
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
Tiffany Zarrella @tiffzarrella.bsky.social assistant professor at georgetown | polymicrobial interactions | bacterial physiology | science educator | views my own
www.zarrellalab.org
Chase Morgan @phagemorgan.bsky.social MD/PhD student. Harm Reductionist. Here for the phages. All views my own.
Lucas Moriniere @lucasmoriniere.bsky.social Postdoc at UC Berkeley (Arkin lab) and LBNL (Mutalik lab). Former plant pathologist converted to the wonders of the phage world. Phage-host interactions | Phage receptor specificity | High-throughput genetics | Phage engineering | Predictive biology.
Urinary Tract Infections Revisited @uti-revisited.bsky.social NWO ENW-XL consortium - investigating the ecology and evolution of the urobiome in urinary tract infections in post-menopausal women.
https://www.nwo.nl/en/projects/ocenwxl21xl21088
Manuscripts and updates of the UTIr consortium.
Hosted by Marjon de Vos
Raphael Laurenceau @raphael-microb.bsky.social Microbiologist
Uday Tak @snowkaryote.bsky.social Bacteria and phage at UVA
taklaboratory.org
Peter Fineran @peterfineran.bsky.social Prof. and Head of Phage-host interactions (Phi) lab. Phage defences, counter-defences, CRISPR-Cas, toxin-antitoxin. FRSNZ / James Cook Fellow
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.
Life Science Network @lifesciencenet.bsky.social A platform for life sciences. Publications, research protocols, news, events, jobs and more. Sign up at https://www.lifescience.net.
Matthew J Shepherd @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social Bicentenary Fellow @manchester.ac.uk within @mermanchester.bsky.social - Understanding opportunistic pathogen evolution - AMR, pathogenesis, niche transitions 🧫🧬 Former Fellow @wiko-berlin.bsky.social
Arc Institute @arcinstitute.org A full-stack institute for AI and biology research.
ISVM @isvm-society.bsky.social International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM) aims to advance the science and use of viruses of microorganisms by supporting academic meetings, encouraging networking, and facilitating learning opportunities
Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social Developing data intensive computational methods • PI @ Seoul National University 🇰🇷 • #FirstGen • he/him • Hauptschüler
Holomicrobiome Initiative @handle.invalid In the Holomicrobiome Initiative (https://holomicrobiome.org), universities, research institutions, companies, and ngo’s together work to better understand and innovatively apply microbiomes across multiple sectors and research domains.
Catalin Bunduc @catalinbunduc.bsky.social Starting PI @ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Membrane proteins, cryo-EM, mycobacteria
Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist (Multicellularity & social evolution). Prof. at Georgia Tech & Director of the QBioS PhD program.
https://ratclifflab.biosci.gatech.edu/
MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social Microbial Evolution Research at The University of Manchester
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/merman/
Avery Noonan @averynoonan.bsky.social
Tom Shimizu @thomasshimizu.bsky.social Group Leader, AMOLF Institute
Professor of Physics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
https://amolf.nl/research-groups/physics-of-behavior
Belgian Society for Viruses of Microbes @bsvom.bsky.social
@ghatfull.bsky.social @ghatfull.bsky.social
Oxford Nanopore @nanoporetech.com 🌍Direct DNA/RNA analysis for anyone, anywhere
🧬Short to ultra-long reads in real-time for rapid insights
🔬Products for research use only
Katy Brown @thekatybrown.bsky.social Postdoc in computational genomics studying RNA viruses at Cambridge. She/Her https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8400-6922
Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social Virus spotter. You're twistin' my melon man.
Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social PI @ Vilnius University Life Sciences Center 🦠🧬🌳🌍🐾📈.
Enthusiast of orthomyxos (& other (-)ssRNA viruses), RNA virus discovery, evolution & ecology, genomic epidemiology, data-vis, matplotlib.
EMBO installation grantee.
evogytis.github.io
Amy H Fitzpatrick @amyhfitzpatrick.bsky.social RNA virus discovery 🦠🔎
Irish Research Council postdoc 👩🏼🔬 at University College Dublin (UCD) 🍀
Ballet and book lover 🩰 | Eurovision fanatic
🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🇩🇰 🇩🇪
Jon Mifsud @jonathonmifsud.bsky.social Postdoc @ KU Leuven | Virus evolution 🧬👨💻
Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social Alexander von Humboldt fellow at @ FLI 🇩🇪 | virus emergence and evolution | pathogen discovery | metagenomics and bioinformatics | 🇦🇺 living abroad
Uri Neri @urineri.bsky.social Meta/viromics.
RNA virology, Archaeal viruses, Linux and FOSS.
Currently a postdoc at the Joint Genome Institute (formerly at TAU)
Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social Passionate about Microbes and Biodiversity. Bioinformatics. Novel Molecular Biology, RNA viruses and RdRp. Bioinformatician EMBL-EBI
European Virus Bioinformatics Center @evbc.bsky.social Bringing together the excellence of virology and bioinformatics.
Tools: http://bit.ly/evbctools
Impressum: https://evbc.uni-jena.de/impressum/
Shoichi Sakaguchi @sho1.bsky.social NeoRdRp, RdRp Summit
Artem Babaian @rnalab.bsky.social Computational Virologist |
The Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms |
Molecular Genetics / Donnelly Centre @ UofT 🇨🇦
#Bioinformatics #Virology #Genetics #Biology
Humberto Debat @humbertodebat.bsky.social Virologist at INTA, Argentina
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WTXvKy0AAAAJ&hl=en
Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social Avian influenza & avian virome ecology | "Expert in Ducks" | (she/her) | michellewille.com
Rhys Parry @rhyshparry.bsky.social Virologist at the University of Queensland. #virology #virusevolution #rnavirology
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.)
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
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
Elizabeth Pursey @elliepursey.bsky.social Scientist of microbial genomes, writes and draws a lot
Alita Burmeister @aburmeister.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW Milwaukee | Molecular Microbiology and Evolution Lab | Microbes, Mentorship, and More | she/hers
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.
Sean Czerwinski @sczerwinski.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate with @jamesgurney.bsky.social - Phage researcher that is open to swapping modules on occasion. he/him
Christian Loyo @christianloyo.bsky.social Postdoc at Fred Hutch | MIT Biology PhD 🦫 | UW-Madison Alum 🧀 | Interested in all things microbes! | Chicano 🇺🇸🇲🇽 | He/Him
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.
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/
Lindsey Burcham @lindseyatutk.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Univ of Tennessee
Host-pathogen interactions & vaginal biology
Mom of two tiny microbes
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.
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
Cathy Hernandez @cathyhernandez.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina | bacteria x (pro)phage x environment | hdzlab.com
Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgia State University
Art by Arwa Abbas
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
S Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social evolution & math = a super interesting job
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/
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
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
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
Phage Directory @phagedirectory.bsky.social Making it easier to use, share & study phages. By Jess & Jan
Capsid & Tail Newsletter: http://phage.directory/capsid
Podovirus Podcast: http://shorturl.at/PDNIy