Aaron Tan
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aarontan.bsky.social
Aaron Tan
@aarontan.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SCELSE & SBS (Kline & Thibault Labs)
Research interests: Host-pathogen interactions, Extracellular Electron Transport
Personal interests: Photography, Cooking, Baking
Twitter: Photon_Trapper
Reposted by Aaron Tan
Our latest efforts to understand Enterococcal wound infection. In long-term collaboration with @gthibault.bsky.social, we discovered how E. faecalis makes extracellular ROS - via EET!⚡️Which in turn dysregulates host UPR to delay wound healing. Led by @aarontan.bsky.social - his videos below are 🤩!
📢 Our new preprint is out! We show how the common gut bacterium 𝘌. 𝘧𝘢𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴 stops wound healing. It uses a metabolic pathway, extracellular electron transport (EET), to stress host cells, halting their migration. Watch WT bacteria (orange) stop the cells while the mutant (blue) doesn't!
August 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM