Comprehensive, scientific research and instruction on microbiology and immunology as they relate to human disease. RTs ≠ Endorsements www.mmi.wisc.edu

Relaying microbiology news, articles and comments relevant to aspects on bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes / microorganisms. Microbes are 💪

Official account of the American Society for Microbiology. With over 38,000 members, ASM's mission is to promote & advance the microbial sciences.

Asst Prof at UC Irvine. Studying host-pathogen interactions, microbial cancer therapies. Expert takes on unserious content burkelab.medschool.uci.edu

Scientist at Duke University. My team studies cell-autonomous immunity to intracellular pathogens and inflammation. Views are my own and do not represent those of my employer.

I study infection and inflammation, specifically inflammasomes + host-pathogen interaction at barrier tissues. Epithelial cells are the best. Associate Prof. @ohsummi.bsky.social‬ Opinionated opinions mine. Immigrant. She/her

All views and opinions expressed are my own.

#DevBio Lab at NorthwesternU Studying Pluripotency, Neural Crest Stem Cells and the Evolution of Vertebrates. Recovering Former Dept. Chair, Diversity Advocate. Past President Society for Developmental Biology.

Research biologist and lover of nature, mostly bacteria, insects and (lately) birds

Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.

Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com

PROFS is a UW-Madison faculty advocacy organization supported entirely through voluntary faculty contributions. Reposts are not endorsements.

Facts & strategy, in an authoritarian takeover. Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities. We work to cure diseases like cancer. Pers views. #science #medicine

Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within. Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission. Proudly #AltGov Tips? signal altCDC.99, email altCDCtips@proton.me or DM

Assoc. Prof. @ at Illinois State University. We study the molecular secrets of bacterial stress responses. https://about.illinoisstate.edu/jdahl1/

Scientist at Duke studying tuberculosis, host susceptibility to infection, and mycobacterial pathogenesis. Views are my own and do not represent those of my employer.

Microbiologist. Assoc. Prof. at Uniformed Services University. Marylander now. Minnesotan before. Montanan 1st and always. Views mine, not my employer's.

Professor and Vice Chair of Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology, University of Virginia. Chair, 2025 Phagocytes GRC. Fascinated by neutrophils & Neisseria.

Microbiologist. Associate Professor at University of Illinois Chicago studying microbe-microbe interactions. Loves fungi and bacteria.

Associate Professor, UC-Berkeley, Plant and Microbial Biology Department. Microbial physiology, lanthanide-biochemistry, methylotrophy, biometallurgy, plant-microbe interactions. (she/her) @UCBerkeley @PMB_Berkeley

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

Professor of Biology at University of Pittsburgh. Toxoplasma evolution placenta interactions virulence development. tragically a pirates fan can’t help it

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

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Microbiology at Rutgers University, interested in the chemical biology of microbial stress responses. www.lonerganlab.org

Professor of Microbiology. Tuberculosis research and drug discovery. www.abramovitchlab.com

Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. Studying host-pathogen interactions, with a focus on Chlamydia and Orientia effector proteins and host cell biology.

Microbiologist, mom, runner w/delusions of completing a marathon. Dog enthusiast. This Week in Microbiology (https://www.microbe.tv/twim/).

HHMI Hanna H. Gray Postdoc in the Skaar Lab | PhD in the Shin Lab | From Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 | Views are my own

Molecular Microbiologist studying C diff and friends @ Emory University. Opinions are my own.

Associate professor @Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH. Studying heterogeneity within bacterial populations during infection & implications for antibiotic susceptibility.

Assistant Prof at UChicago Dept of Microbiology, studying Acinetobacter-host interactions and stress responses. Views my own. she/her https://www.eringreenlab.org/

Postdoc in the Selmecki Lab Microbial evolution and drug resistance https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Z-KToTMAAAAJ&hl=en

innate immunity, inflammation, host defense and soccer dad!

ID physician scientist studying S. aureus and antibiotic treatment failure. Views my own.

Professor of microbiology at the University of Toronto Department of Molecular Genetics

Official Bluesky account for the UW Madison MDTP

Professor of Microbiology, C. difficile pathogenesis, Latina in Science, parent of 2, she/her. Views are my own.

Professor & Chief, Infectious Diseases, Passionate about research in #UTIs #viralInfections #autophagy #bladder #placenta #aging #immunity #translationalresearch #mentoring #operabuff #worldcuisine #cooking&hosting

Bacteriologist. We study Nesseria, Gardnerella, and all things related to peptidoglycan. Professor at UW-Madison.

microbiologist, McMaster U 🇨🇦 • type IV pili, phages, biofilms, antibiotic resistance • equestrian🐴 • cancer survivor🎗️

Professor of Chemical Biology and Molecular Therapeutics at UC Berkeley

Assistant Professor & Chancellor Scholar Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Center for Immunity and Inflammation | Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Host-pathogen interactions, innate immune and metabolic responses

Genomic Sequencing Lab Director, UC Berkeley; connoisseur of oddities. Here for some chuckles and maybe some learning. Opinions are my own not UCB, although spawned from a career in NGS from 454 and Solexa into the great sequencing beyond.

microbiologist | immunologist | educator University of Kentucky

Microbiologist researching anti-infectives, Prof at University of Colorado, Editor in Chief of #MMBR (Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews), an American Society of Microbiology ‪(ASM‬; ‪@asm.org‬).

Interested in microbial ecology & evolution. Views are only my own. (he/him) 🎓: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=OBPpZq4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate 👨‍💻: https://github.com/raufs

Community of researchers interested in understanding the molecular & cellular mechanisms that pathogens use to colonize their hosts. #microbiology #infection Section of the French Society for Microbiology

UW-Madison Microbiology PhD student in the @molabuw.bsky.social, studying phage infection in microbial communities. Microbial ecology & evolution. Fan of birds, books, bacteriophages, and Beckett.

Professor of Microbiology, immunology and inflammation. Interested in host-biofilm interactions, bacterial amyloid curli and microbial pathogenesis

Professor of Translational Immunology • Infection & Immunity • Public Involvement and Engagement • Scientist and migrant • Superbugs

https://x.com/Cori_Fain HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow | Neuroimmunologist and mother of three. #Neuroimmunology #NativeinSTEM #firstgen #NSPeeps #WomenInScience

Graduate student | Microbiology Doctoral Training Program | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Jason Peters lab | Pathogens | Antibiotic Resistance | CRISPR

Australian first | Scientist second | Associate Professor at The University of Vermont | FirstGen | Lover of germs, especially Salmonella and their type III secretion systems

Associate professor at MIT studying host-pathogen interactions lamasonlab.org

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.

Virologist. Assistant Prof. at UMich. DEI Advocate. Detroit Girly. #BlackInMicro

Emergence and evolution of bacterial pathogens Complexity in biological systems Dept. of Host-Microbe Interactions St. Jude Children's Research Hospital NSF CAREER. BWF PATH

Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. Microbes, evolution, and infectious disease. Dad and husband. barberlab.org

Professor of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania | bacterial pathogens & innate immunity | Chair, Microbiology, Virology, Parasitology Graduate Program | she/her | mom | daughter of immigrants | #FirstGen | opinions are my own Lab: sunnyshinlab.com

Immunoengineer at MIT BE developing predictive diagnostics. Captivated by #inflammation, #SexDifferences #Lyme, #COVID, #IACI, #IACC and #onehealth. Mom of 2. prev/ PhD in Immunology @Yale; PostDoc @Stanford https://talresearchgroup.mit.edu/

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

Scientist, Huck Professor: Microbiome, Virome, Symbiosis, Evolution, Genetics, Phylosymbiosis, Holobiont, Wolbachia, Phage | Director of One Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social | SciEd: @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social | @holobiontbiology.bsky.social

Microbiologist 🧫🧪 | Microbe-Microbe interactions in infection | Mom of 👧🏼👦🏼🐶| Asst. Professor at UTK | Views my own

Microbial evangelist and podcaster. Husband, father, moderate. Associate Professor at the University of Puget Sound, facing retirement in June of 2026. Looking for what is next that sparks microbial joy.

bacterial geneticist, associate professor, mom. enjoy: science, dogs, gin, books, vaccines, chocolate, old bay, the US Constitution & Bill of Rights

Bacterial cell biologist.

microbiologist. entomologist. immunologist. Lover of science, especially at its intersections. Asst Prof of Biology at Johns Hopkins. @nabroderick elsewhere.

Associate Professor at Binghamton University Microbiologist, bacterial-host interactions, Streptococcus

Laboratory interested in mycobacterial pathogenesis and lung inflammation

Associate Professor at McMaster university interested in microbes and how they interact with each other and with us. #MicroSky #IDSky #Microbiomesky #secmet 🇨🇦🧫🧬⚗️

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.)

Loving microbes, water, genomes, computers, and Wisconsin. Proud GenXer. Mom to a very spicy 2e teen boy and a sassy little girl with big plans to change the world. #resist

I study how bacteria kill plants. Interested across biological scales: molecular 🧬, cellular🦠, organismal 🧫, ecological 🥀🌍, and evolutionary 🧬. Optimistic pessimist: The world is dark, so how can we slow the decline?

Papa to 9 microbes, mackerel snapper, shepherd, master of sucking. I want to help you learn the skills you'll need to succeed in science.

Professor at Indiana University, Department of Biology. Interested in all things microbial symbiosis related & these days, a lot of MGEs

Asst Prof of Micro and Immuno in Chicago | antimicrobial resistance💊| Acinetobacter baumannii-host interface🦠| views my own | she/her

Assistant professor of Biological Sciences at Pitt, studying evolution, genes, and microbes. Same as @tera_levin in the other place. #NewPI She/her

Assistant Prof at UPenn & Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Co-Director of Center for Microbial Medicine (https://tinyurl.com/2xve6jfp) at CHOP We study host-pathogen interactions, C. diff, Enterococcus, gut microbiota, mRNA vaccines. zackularlab.org

Mostly about bacterial gene/protein regulation & function, esp. with Borrelia burgdorferi and Lyme disease. Professor at U Kentucky, views are my own. He/him Lab= http://microscopist.net/Stevenson_Lab.html UK= https://medicine.uky.edu/users/bstev0

🇧🇷 🇺🇸 DVM/PhD | Host-microbiota metabolic interactions | Assistant Professor | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | Mom | Dog lover | Views are my own

brand new asst prof at University of Pennsylvania studying metabolic flux- NCI R00 awardee- also i do bad jokes (she/her) https://bartmanlabpenn.squarespace.com/

Professor studying how bacteria evade the immune system. Goal to develop new therapeutics to protect people from infections. Opinions my own.

Evangelist for the study of evolution in action by everyone. Pitt Prof | EvolvingSTEM | biofilms | EvMed | genomics entrepreneur (@SeqCoast.bsky.social, @midauthorbio.bsky.social) | ASM President-Elect | exercise addict ~ swim bike run

The Bel Lab, boldly going where no one else bothers to. @erc.europa.eu funded lab. Opinions are my microbiota's. www.thebellab.com

Distinguished Professor University of California Davis Member, NAS, AAM, Leopoldina, AAAS Views are my dog's

Scientist fascinated by infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions and bacterial infections. Views my own 🇵🇷 #CienciaBoricua #MacFellow #MRSA

Assoc. Professor, Purdue U. (via India - U. Maryland, College Park - UCLA - UCSD/HHMI). Having fun studying Fic proteins, from bacteria to humans. #AMPylation #HypothesisFund
https://www.bio.purdue.edu/lab/mattoo/

GenX 👩‍🔬 studying innate immunity/host tolerance in pneumonia and wounds. Assoc. Prof. of MMI and director of @BrownUPathoGP and NIH-PREP at Brown.

Physician-scientist at UT Southwestern Medical Center (Infectious Diseases; Immunology; Microbiology; Neuroimmunology). All views my own. Lab website: https://labs.utsouthwestern.edu/shiloh-lab

Prof Immunology and Microbiology at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, interested in Strep and Gm+ pathogens that impact health and disease

Professor, University of Geneva. We study Enterococcal biofilms, pathogenesis, and AMR. Formerly @KimInSingapore 🌴. https://kimberlyklinelab.com/

Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him 📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm Edyong.me

Northwestern University Microbiology Professor studying Vibrio toxins, Structural Biology, COVID and RAS degraders. Supporting women as leaders in Science.

Passionate about bacteria and host cell responses to infection. 🇵🇹&🇺🇸 and a bit 🇫🇷 Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Opinions my own.