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Alex Grossman

@grossmanmicrobio.bsky.social

Heavy Metal Microbiologist. Interested in host/microbe symbiosis. Postdoctoral researcher at the ADA Forsyth institute in the Lab of Dr. Batbileg Bor

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Hello everyone, take a look at my cool bugs from the Microbial Dark Matter phylum Saccharibacteria! These ultrasmall bacteria (in green) track down Actinobacteria hosts (not in green) and grow on the host cell envelope.

15.10.2025 17:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Exciting progress! In our new preprint, we show that episymbiont Saccharibacteria can directly modulate epithelial immunityโ€”a big step in understanding how these elusive microbes interact with the human host. Kudos to Deepak Chouhan and our amazing collaborators! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

03.06.2025 12:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New paper out! We searched for cargo across thousands of Type 11 Secretion Systems (T11SS) in Proteobacteria and uncovered 2,500+ predicted secreted proteins, including 6 novel cargo types, with experimental verification of a new surface lipoprotein, Pls. doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001406

21.05.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Excited to share our new preprint on the detailed investigation of Type 4 pili in epibiont oral Saccharibacteria! Led by Alex Grossman from our lab, and with Jun Liu (Yale), Jeff McLean (UW) and Xuesong He. Check it out: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

04.12.2024 11:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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