Journal Social Media Editors (JSMEs)

The Journal Social Media Editors are a team of active microbiology researchers working to keep our community up to date about the latest articles and collections from the FEMS Journals. The JSME team also organize around awareness days and we help them to share their science communications work. You can find their social media posts on the following accounts:

Bluesky: @femsjournals.bsky.social
Twitter: @FEMSmicro
Facebook: @FEMSmicro
LinkedIn: Federation of European Microbiological Societies
microLife journal Twitter account: @microLifeJrnl
FEMS Microbes journal Twitter account: @FEMSMicrobes

Project Manager

Joseph Brooks Shuttleworth

Short bio: Joseph is the Marketing & Communications Manager at FEMS, where he leads the team working on the digital media and marketing, scientific, internal and external communications, content strategy, the FEMS webinars, and the social media side of things. His time is spent managing various communications systems, projects, and teams with a SciComms focus.

Previous to FEMS, he worked in science communications in London at the Science Media Centre UK, and spent time as political factchecker for Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking charity. Before that, he spent two years teaching maths and science in a leading UK school. His academic background is in Natural Sciences (M.A. University of Cambridge) and the History and Philosophy of Science (M.Sc. University College London), with a focus on the Philosophy of Computing. Originally from Oxford (UK), as a school student student he spent 3 summers interning at the William Dunn School of Pathology, where he cultivated copious E. coli colonies and a love for microbiology.

Get in touch with him at joseph.shuttleworth “at” fems-microbiology.org

JSME Volunteers

Joana Bastos Batista

Journal: FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Hashtag: #FEMSMicrobiolEcol

Short bio: Joana Batista has a BSc in Microbiology and an MSc in Biotechnology from Nova School of Science and Technology, Portugal. Her research focus has been on bioenergy production, biomass valorisation and alternative biomass pre-treatments, bacterial immobilisation, and wastewater treatment. She is currently working as an assistant researcher on a European Project, studying the use of Aerobic Granular Sludge as a treatment technology for preventing and mitigating groundwater contamination.

Jakob Jung

Journal: FEMS Microbiology Letters

Hashtag: #FEMSMicrobiolLett

Short bio: Jakob Jung completed his MSc in cellular biotechnology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Now he pursues a PhD at the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB) in Würzburg, Germany. In his current research, Jakob tries to decipher the target, and off-target, effects of species-specific antibiotics using computational and next-generation sequencing approaches.

Zehra Esra Ilhan

Journal: FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Hashtag: #FEMSMicrobiolRev

Short bio: Esra is currently a postdoctoral researcher at INRAE, France and she completed her Ph.D. in Microbiology at Arizona State University. She has a background in environmental microbiology and roles of microbiome in female health and metabolic diseases. Her current research focuses on bi-directional interactions between microbiomes and pharmaceuticals in the context of human health.

Antonella Colque

Journal: Pathogens and Disease
Hashtag: #PathogDis

Short bio: : Antonella is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Clinical Microbiology at Rigshospitalet, Denmark. She holds a PhD in Molecular Microbiology from CONICET, Argentina, and is passionate about microbial adaptation to diverse environments. Her current research leverages next-generation sequencing, human airway models, and clinical strains to investigate persistent bacterial infections. She values collaboration among scientists, clinicians, and society to develop effective prevention strategies and improve treatment options. 

Lara Isensee Saboya de Sousa

Journal: FEMS Yeast Research

Hashtag: #FEMSYeastRes

Short bio: Lara Isensee Saboya de Sousa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology from Universidade Federal do Ceará (Fortaleza, CE – Brazil). She is currently a Master’s student in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of Campinas (Campinas-SP, Brazil) where she works with Industrial Biotechnology related to yeast genetics and physiology. Her project focuses on genetic mapping and engineering of a Brazilian yeast strain for optimum corn fermentation. Her areas of interest include all related to yeast research involved in bioenergy and the transition to a bio-based industry, towards sustainable development.

 Julie Le Bris

Journal: microLife

Twitter account: @microLifeJrnl

Short bio:  Julie Le Bris, after studying midwifery, completed her MsC in Genetics (Magistère Européen de Génétique, Paris – France) where she developed a broad interest in microbial evolution and ecology at the molecular and community levels. She is currently pursuing her PhD in the Microbial Evolutionary Genomics Unit at the Institut Pasteur (Paris – France), focusing on the bacterial capsule and horizontal gene transfers using both computational and experimental approaches.

Manasa Narayan

Journal: FEMS Microbes

Twitter account: @FEMSMicrobes

Short bio: Manasa completed her MSc. in Biochemistry at the University of Hyderabad in India. Her master’s research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis sparked her interest in bacterial pathogens. Subsequently, she moved to Germany to pursue a PhD at the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology in Würzburg. Manasa’s PhD research focuses on functional characterization of RNA-binding proteins in the food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni.