Foster lab @mm_sheffield at the University of Sheffield. Bacterial cell wall, S. aureus pathogenesis, antibiotics. Account run by PhD students & post docs.

Sheffield, UK
Our latest paper is out in science advances discussing cell division and morphogenesis control in S. aureus. Massive congratulations to Mariana and all of our other authors and collaborators!! science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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If you're in Sheffield & you 😍 CAKE, make sure to visit the Addison Building TUESDAY 10-3pm 🧁 Olivija & Helen are launching a new dropbox, so you can get FREE shipping for whole plasmid sequencing & microbial WGS @sheffielduni @ScienceShef #MicrobialGenomics #CakeAndScience Sample collections every Wednesday 10AM from Faculty of Science stores 👉microbesng.com/dropbox
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Super excited to have been awarded a 2024 BBSRC Fellowship to investigate antibiotic tolerance in staphylococci! ☺️🧫 🦠💊 Thanks to @M_Stracy @sheppard_lab @foster_lab @corrigar1 @BanzhafLab @Dunn_School and many others for their support! ukri.org/news/9-million-inve…
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Excited to share with you the story that enabled me to start my own lab: what happens when the bacterial DNA replication machinery encounters single-strand discontinuities on template DNA? What is required for DNA break repair and replication restart? biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Very happy to see this paper by @AKTooke out there! Congratulations Amy!!
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Fully-funded @DiMeN_DTP PhD opportunity available in my lab to investigate novel DNA damage repair processes using next generation sequencing and microscopy techniques (co-supervised by @acdarby & @MicKasia). Please RT and contact me if interested. findaphd.com/phds/project/mr…
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So proud of the entire @foster_lab It’s a pleasure to have been part of such an amazing project! (Ft. green tea and friends) High-level resistance to methicillin requires S. aureus to use a distinct form of cell division to ensure its survival. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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A new study from scientists at @sheffielduni and @ucddublin has revealed how the hospital superbug MRSA can grow and divide in the presence of antibiotics. MRSA is an antimicrobial resistance superbug that causes over 120,000 deaths a year. The findings @ScienceMagazine offer hope in treating the life-threatening bug and other infectious diseases. ➡️ucd.ie/research/news/2024/ne… @corrigar1 @UCDMedicine @UCD_CHAS @OneHealthUCD
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And for anyone wanting a link that works, try this science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
We are very excited to announce our latest work on how MRSA conquers antibiotics. We show that high-level resistance to methicillin requires S. aureus to utilise an alternative mode of cell division to ensure its survival! @Sheffield_AFM @Olulana4 doi.org/10.1126/scienc…
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Scientists from UCD & the University of Sheffield have discovered how the hospital superbug MRSA can grow and divide in the presence of antibiotics. The findings published in Science pave the way for new approaches to control infectious disease. Read more👉bit.ly/3UvMVk9
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We are very excited to announce our latest work on how MRSA conquers antibiotics. We show that high-level resistance to methicillin requires S. aureus to utilise an alternative mode of cell division to ensure its survival! @Sheffield_AFM @Olulana4 doi.org/10.1126/scienc…
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This is an amazing collaborative piece of work between lots of groups: @corrigar1 @Laia_Pasquina @Sheffield_AFM @oliMeacock @KasiaWacnik @Olulana4. Congratulations to everyone involved and thank you to everyone who helped us get this story out there!
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Read more about our latest paper on S. aureus using an alternative mode of cell division to resist the effects of methicillin
MRSA, an antimicrobial resistance superbug, causes over 120,000 deaths per year. A new study led by @sheffielduni, funded by @UKRI, has revealed the bugs’ double defence mechanism against antibiotics - a crucial step in developing new ways to target its survival strategy. Read more 👇 sheffield.ac.uk/news/mrsas-d…
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This is an awesome piece of work from @foster_lab , demonstrating that high level methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus requires a distinct mode of cell division - Two codependent routes lead to high-level MRSA science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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I am very excited to announce our latest work on how MRSA conquers antibiotics. In this work, we showed that high-level resistance to methicillin requires S. aureus to use a distinct form of cell division to ensure its survival. @Sheffield_AFM @foster_lab science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Excited to announce our latest work on how MRSA conquers antibiotics. We used #AFM & #ImageAnalysis to show that resistant S. aureus cells have an alternative mode of division to ensure survival. This is an amazing collaborative work from @Sheffield_AFM and @foster_Lab. 🔬🧫📊
Some incredibly exciting work coming from the collaboration between @Sheffield_AFM and @foster_lab. Here, @Olulana4 has shown that MRSA employs an alternate mode of division in order to survive in the presence of methicillin. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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