Microbial Evolution III
Scientists working at the interface of microbiology and evolution, part 3/3
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@mikeblazanin.bsky.social
@francesco-ferraro.bsky.social
PhD student in theoretical physics and ecology 🔗 https://francesco-ferraro.com
@liphlab.bsky.social
Department of Physics, University of Padova, Italy Our research spans from statistical mechanics ⚛️ to the organization of the brain 🧠 and the functioning of ecosystems 🌎 🔗 liphlab.com
@palomarodera.bsky.social
PhD Student in the Evolution of Microbiomes and Mobile Genetic Elements (EMMGE) and Plasmid Biology and Evolution (PBE lab). Bioinformatician and Biologist hybrid 💻🧬
@jtono.bsky.social
Yeast match-maker. BBSRC Discovery Fellow and Assistant Prof at the Uni of Nottingham.
@jlsteenwyk.bsky.social
Omics & Software Eng 🧬👨🏽💻 | UC-Berkeley 🐻👨🏽🔬 | Current LSRF HHMI Awardee🎓 | HHMI Gilliam Alumn🧑🎓 https://linktr.ee/jlsteenwyk 🔗🌲 jlsteenwyk.com 🔗📍
@lucyxie.bsky.social
NIAID K99 Fellow (current) and Damon Runyon Fellow (past) in Jarosz Lab at Stanford University; PhD in Cowen Lab at University of Toronto; Interested in non-genetic mechanisms of antifungal drug resistance.
@kylejcard.bsky.social
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic studying drug resistance evolution w/ Jacob Scott 💊 | HHMI Gilliam Fellow & Ph.D. w/ Richard Lenski | #DisabledInSTEM 🦾 | He/Him
@clementsui.bsky.social
- Prin Scientific Officer, NCID, Singapore - Asst Prof @UBC Canada - Asst Prof @NTU Singapore - views are my own - Editor, tea lover, hiker #microbiology #mycology #evolutionarybiology #genomics #AMR
@antsymbiosis.bsky.social
Evolution of ants, fungi, bacteria and ecology of surrounding soils. 🇺🇸, 🇩🇪. Views expressed here are my own, not my employer's.
@lucievirevolte.bsky.social
Researcher PI @CIRI_Lyon @CNRS @ENSdeLyon Functional evolution of virus-host interactions. Impact on cross-species transmissions. 🦇 🦍 🦠 🧬 🌳
@julielebris.bsky.social
PhD student interested in microbial evolution and ecology🧬 @Institut Pasteur #Klebsiella #MicroSky
@sarahhird.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University of Connecticut studying evolution & bird microbiomes. More importantly: I’m an aspiring anti-racist, raging feminist & trying to ACT NOW on the climate crisis. Please read The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg et al.
@iambrettb.bsky.social
He/Him PhD student in viral bioinformatics and phylogenetics Pepsi Max enthusiast 🏳️🌈🇦🇺
@jpbarton.bsky.social
Viruses, evolution, immunity, statistical physics | https://bartonlab.github.io
@mkhochb.bsky.social
University of Montpellier - Santa Fe Institute. Working these days on intelligence in biological and artificial systems. Website https://mehochberg.wixsite.com/blog/academia
@wanyuac.bsky.social
Microbiology research fellow at the University of Liverpool in the UK, studying bacterial genomics, evolution, antimicrobial resistance, and infectious disease epidemiology using bioinformatics and computational biology
@microevo.bsky.social
Pos-Doc | USP | Microbe Ecology and Evolution | Bioinformatics | Genomic | Plant Microbe | He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
@paulinedscanlan.bsky.social
School of Microbiology and APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork 🇮🇪 Microbial Ecology | Microbial Evolution | Gut Microbiome
@escolizzi.bsky.social
Tenured scientist @INRIA, Lyon. Studying how microbes evolve new stuff with computer simulations.
@benizao.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford using genomics to investigate the global spread and evolution of bacterial pathogens. Science | Sport | Music
@penandpangolin.bsky.social
📚 Ph.D. Student, Zoology | UBC. 🦠 Evolutionary Virology + One Health Genomics. 🔬Scientific + Biological Illustrator. 🏳️🌈 Co-Founder: 500QueerSci. 📍 Vancouver, BC. 🍉 . IG: @ThePenAndThePangolin http://www.thepenandthepangolin.com/
@kieran-bates.bsky.social
Group Leader @ Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London | Microbiome | Ecology & Evolution | Infectious Disease www.bateslab.uk
@d2mory.bsky.social
Quantitative microbial ecology and evolution, oceanography, microbes and their viruses. Researcher @cnrs.bsky.social and @OOBanyuls. @joshuasweitz.bsky.social group former postdoc.
@evisher.bsky.social
Current postdoc fellow with the Petrov and Sherlock labs at Stanford. Previous PhD with Mike Boots at Berkeley. <3 experimental evolution <3 trade-offs <3 microbes and viruses <3 population genetics <3 evolutionary ecology
@sheppardlab.bsky.social
Working to understand ecology, epidemiology and evolution of pathogenic bacteria at University of Oxford. Account operated by group members.
@aaronc-research.bsky.social
Evolution | Genomics | Drosophilids | Amphibs | Microbes Lecturer in the Molecular Ecology and Evolution group, Bangor University, North Wales. Lab website: https://comeaultlab.wordpress.com/ + photography and being in mountains. 🇨🇦🏴 He/Him
@atbisesi.bsky.social
PhD candidate, UMN EEB, Harcombe lab | evolutionary ecology of microbial communities | fan of trains, bikes, mountains, and the minnesota lynx | he/him
@hfaoro.bsky.social
Public Health Researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. In our group we study the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance using a multi-omics approach. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0146-8639 http://lattes.cnpq.br/1864025543667883
@mozammel.bsky.social
Playing with Unseen as Postdoctoral Research Associate Diane lab @AIMI_UTS exploiting molecular interaction of pathogenic bacteria and their predators. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LN2GUkQAAAAJ&hl=en
@jorgesastred.bsky.social
PhD student in the Plasmid Biology and Evolution (PBE) and Evolution of Microbes and Mobile Genetic Elements labs. Bioinformatics 💻 Evolutionary Biology 🦠 Antimicrobial resistance 💊 📍CNB - CSIC
@drjoshramsay.bsky.social
Microbiologist interested in evolution, genetics and molecular biology of Mobile Genetic Elements (MGE). Assoc. Prof. Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia Ramsaylab.org mgeaus.org
@supreetsaini.bsky.social
Interested in microbial evolution, genetics of adaptation & speciation. Faculty at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India https://sites.google.com/view/esmlab/home
@mikejmcd.bsky.social
Watching microbial evolution in mini-ecosystems and thinking of strategies to manipulate evolution. I lead a research group at Monash University. He/Him. www.mcdonald-lab.com
@gagekmoreno.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Sabeti Lab. Interested in the genomic epidemiology, evolution, and pathogenicity of RNA viruses 🦠🏳️🌈
@drxenogene.bsky.social
Professor of microbiology at the University of Toronto Department of Molecular Genetics
@danichitrang.bsky.social
Postdoc at VanderbiltU, previously at JNCASR | Circadian Clocks & Evolution | Insects & Bacteria | Science communication & advocacy | First-gen scientist | Views my own
@jrossfitz.bsky.social
Microbiologist, Bacterial evolution, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh
@ariskatzourakis.bsky.social
Viruses, Evolution, Education, Trade Unions, things like that. Prof at Uni of Oxford, NEC member for UCU. Posts mine, reposts not.
@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.
@mokhalil.bsky.social
Prof @ Boston University and Wyss Institute. Synthetic & systems biology; directed evolution; protein & cell engineering; eVOLVER. Trying to understand the living world by engineering a synthetic one. Lab website: bu.edu/khalillab
@ielasantiago.bsky.social
PhD student @ Dartmouth Biological Sciences | MBiol alum @ Oxford Biology | ecology and evolution of microbes and their hosts 🦠🐭 | she/her/siya 🌺
@sociovirology.bsky.social
I study the social lives of viruses. Assistant Prof at UC Davis. Previously: UHS | B.S. @UPRM | Ph.D. @Cal | PD @UCSanDiego @Yale @nyuniversity 🇵🇷 🏳️🌈✊
@drramabht.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in van Houte Lab @uniofexeter.bsky.social| Enthusiastic about microbial evolution, phages and defence systems | Crochet lover 🧶| She\Her| 🇮🇳🇬🇧 https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/multidefence/ https://priaan.etsy.com
@harshalichaudhari.bsky.social
Seeking postdoctoral positions in computational biology PhD @IIT Bombay, India Mathematical modeling | Phage biology | Ecology and evolution
@aliciapcv.bsky.social
| CRISPR, Plasmid Biology, Bacterial EcoEvo & AMR | Sci-Illustrator | @embo.org postdoctoral fellow, San-Millán lab @cnb-csic.bsky.social 🇪🇸 Previously: PhD in Bikard Lab, @pasteur.fr 🇫🇷 | She/Her | From 🇪🇸 & 🇵🇹 |
@khammerschmidt.bsky.social
Evolution, Microbiology, Multicellularity, Division of Labour, Major Transitions in Evolution, Life Cycles, Symbiosis Kiel University
@rleonsampedro.bsky.social
| Plasmids, Evolution and Antibiotic Resistance. | Postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich. | Microbiology & Bioinformatics.
@jdpal.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Binghamton University (SUNY) Broadly interested in microbial ecology and evolution, bacterial warfare, synthetic biology, microbiomes, bacteriophage, and antibiotic resistance. https://palmerlab-binghamton.com
@erodriguezroman.bsky.social
Biologist and human(-ist). Virus-host systems. Origins. https://linktr.ee/erodriguezroman
@filza-masood.bsky.social
RA in Respiratory Immunology 🫁 MSc Microbial Evolution & Ecology 🦠 BA (Hons) Microbiology 🧫 Trinity College Dublin Currently looking for PhD roles (2026 start)
@lisaklas.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University: Genomics, Evolution, Symbiosis, Wolbachia
@bioetry.bsky.social
Emergence and evolution of bacterial pathogens. Complexity in biological systems. Dept. of Host-Microbe Interactions at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. NSF CAREER. BWF PATH.
@chantalvogels.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Yale School of Public Health | Medical Entomology 🦟 | Arbovirology 🦠 | Genomics 🧬 | 🇳🇱 | www.vogelslab.com
@jananiharan.bsky.social
Bacterial biogeography and community assembly, evolution + natural history. Strong opinions on data analysis and science communication. Smith Fellow @ Bucknell University. Cats, books, hiking, mental health, existential crises. she/they. த/हि
@elisabethaltrogge.bsky.social
Formerly Elisabeth Richardson. Assistant professor at Mount Royal University. Microbial ecology and evolution in environments affected by hydrocarbons (which is all of them)
@kdm9.bsky.social
Postdoc in plant-pathogen coevolution with Detlef Weigel, MPI Tübingen I work with misbehaving fluids in small tubes, buggy code in vim, and muddy boots in search of wild plants and their pathogens. Australian, formerly @ Borevitz Lab, ANU, Canberrra
@jemmageoghegan.bsky.social
Professor at University of Otago, NZ; Webster Chair in Virology; Rutherford Discovery Fellow. I like viruses and evolution.
@taoranfu.bsky.social
Eco-evo | Postdoc in Brockhurst group at University of Manchester Microbiology | Pseudomonas | Quorum-sensing and defense system
@atendu.bsky.social
Emerging viruses, Virus Characterization, Arboviruses. @upcite.bsky.social
@richardlindsay.bsky.social
Research Fellow at the University of Exeter working on microbial ecology and evolution. Investigating the evolution of cooperation, virulence, metabolism and antimicrobial resistance
@couchmicroscopy.bsky.social
NSF PRFB postdoc • PhD from Bhattacharya lab @RutgersU • Passionate about algae / protists + genomics + evolutionary biology + microscopy www.instagram.com/couch_microscopy Opinions are my own and do not reflect the views of any funder or institution.
@dvirschirman.bsky.social
@EMBOFellows postdoc in @johan_elf_ lab, @UU_University. Chromosome organization in bacteria. Combining microscopy and large synthetic libraries to study genotype-to-phenotype. alumnus of @TPilpel lab
@mfrederickson.bsky.social
@mghafari.bsky.social
Wellcome Trust ECR Fellow and Group Leader @biology.ox.ac.uk | Molecular evolution of pathogens | Postdoc at Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford | Oxford DTP & Zoology Department alum | https://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ4613/
@grantkinsler.bsky.social
Postdoc at UPenn thinking about mutations, cells, and evolution.
@byronjsmith.bsky.social
Microbial Ecologist / Bioinformatician, Postdoc in the Pollard Lab, Gladstone Institutes. PhD from University of Michigan
@nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social
Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics, UCSD. Interested in everything. Theoretical physicist researching condensed & living matter, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics. Bad at staying in my lane. https://guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/
@reneegeck.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Biology at Gonzaga University. Pharmacogenomics, yeast genetics and evolution, STEM education. UW Genome Sci and Harvard BBS alum.
@mgabrielaite.bsky.social
Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Postdoc at Vilnius University 🇱🇹 | Previously Rigshospitalet & University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰 | Bioinformatician 🧑💻 | Exploring bacterial evolution & transmission 🦠 | Toddler mom 🧒
@uncultured.carinilab.com
Systems Microbial Ecologist | Design Thinker | F1 & IndyCar fan. Metalhead. Blog: uncultured.carinilab.com Web: CariniLab.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-carini/ C2 virtual 🚣♀️ team "The Gene Team": https://log.concept2.com/team/20057
@olayarendueles.bsky.social
Microbial evolution & ecology, focus on surface structures (capsules) and HGT (#plasmids #phages), mostly in #Klebsiella #MicroSky From Asturias 🇪🇸 living in 🇫🇷 @cnrs.bsky.social
@jamesgurney.bsky.social
Assistant professor working on phage. Occasional writer/fact checker for kurzgesagt. I didn’t write dinotopia.
@jhuisman.bsky.social
HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT | Mobile genetic elements and microbial communities
@edsondelatorre.bsky.social
Father of three (👧👧🐶), professor of Virology @ufesoficial.bsky.social and scientist focused on viral eco-epidemiology, diversity, and evolution. He/him. PI @lagev-ufes.bsky.social
@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
@anamarijabutkovic.bsky.social
Evolutionary virologist || Post-doc in @mkrupovic lab || https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1435-0912
@emoody.bsky.social
Computational Evolutionary Biologist. Focusing on deep nodes in the tree of life. https://linktr.ee/err_moody
@animalculum.bsky.social
Postdoc in evolution of microbes. I study protists losing mitochondria, algae stealing plastids, and bacteria living on nothing but sulfur. IUEM, Plouzané, BZH, FR. https://lukasnovak.eu/ https://scholar.social/@animalculum he/him
@parisseminar.bsky.social
Thread reporting the #seminar of #biophysics and quantitative biology #qBio available in #Paris Managed by http://maximeardre.eu
@ksxue.bsky.social
Incoming assistant prof at UC Irvine. Ecology and evolution in microbial communities, and occasional writing. https://kxuelab.com
@isabelott.bsky.social
Evolutionary & population biology of vector-borne viral disease systems. NSF GRF 🦟 genetics PhD student in NC. Arbovirologist (orthobunyavirus wonk). Public health advocate. 80s mosquito. Opinions exclusively my own. (she/her)
@cslamo.bsky.social
Biologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Researcher of genomes and evolution. Salido de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. 🇦🇷🇨🇦
@digglelab.bsky.social
Professor of Microbiology at Georgia Tech. Interested in bacterial interactions, biofilms, antimicrobial resistance and bacteriocins (R-pyocins). www.thedigglelab.com.
@hansonmark.bsky.social
New PI interested in #immune #evolution, host #pathogen interactions, and #ScientificPublishing @ University of Exeter, UK. He/him. #immunity #infection #antimicrobialpeptides #microbiome #Drosophila #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #OpenScience 🇨🇦
@kelleygallagher.bsky.social
Microbiologist researching bacterial development and evolution She/her https://gallagherlab.org/
@jeffreytownsend.bsky.social
Elihu Professor of Biostatistics--Cancer, Infectious disease, Evolutionary biology, Fungi, sometimes running
@isepprotists.bsky.social
The International Society for Evolutionary Protistology Serves People with Interests in the Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Cell Biology, and Evolution of Protists. https://www.isep-protists.com/ Account managed by @animalculum.bsky.social
@elzehesse.bsky.social
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow based at the University of Exeter, interested in understanding the ecology and evolution of public goods, cooperation and plant-microbe interactions in metal- polluted soils
@chicascientifica.bsky.social
Professor at Indiana University, Department of Biology. Interested in all things microbial symbiosis related & these days, a lot of MGEs
@aleciarokes.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Vaughn Cooper's Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. she/her
@kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social
Postdoc at Princeton 🐅 Trustee for AMI (http://appliedmicrobiology.org) 🌿ecology | 🧫 microbiomes | 🧬 genomics | 🦠 pathogen emergence | 💊 AMR | 👣 human impacts | 🐾 wildlife conservation |🌎 OneHealth UNL & Stanford alum 🎓 💻 http://kate-lagerstrom.github.io
@kuhnbobio.bsky.social
High school biotech teacher at Innovation Academy STEM High School in Alpharetta GA. Interested in Wolbachia, arthropod/microbe symbiosis, and soil phages. Currently studying sex ratio distorters in A vulgare pullbugs in the US (send us some!)
@siouxsiew.bsky.social
The other “Susie” Wiles AKA NZ’s “Pink Terror”. Microbiologist interested in antibiotic resistance, experimental evolution, and sustainable period products. Also science communicator and lover of bioluminescence & Lego. She/her.
@cmdi.bsky.social
Our team of researchers at GeorgiaTech investigate mechanisms and consequences of microbial community dynamics both in the environment and during infection. https://sites.gatech.edu/cmdi/
@borklab.bsky.social
Computational biology lab focusing on microbiomes in the human gut and the environment Homepage: https://www.bork.embl.de/ Mastodon: https://mstdn.science/@BorkLab