Foster lab @mm_sheffield at the University of Sheffield. Bacterial cell wall, S. aureus pathogenesis, antibiotics. Account run by PhD students & post docs.
Joined March 2020
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14 Apr 2025
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!!
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9 May 2025
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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17 Apr 2025
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!
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11 Mar 2025
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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17 Jan 2025
The role of lipoteichoic acid in Staphylococcus aureus cell wall integrity biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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17 Jan 2025
Please repost!!!!!
Abstraction submission for the next Great Wall Symposium is now open!
Come to Sicily in September and learn the latest on bacterial cell wall biology.
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6 Jan 2025
Staphylococcus aureus gliding comets: formation and observation - new observations of the S. aureus comets and how to get the assay to work biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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7 Nov 2024
Tetracycline and Oxacillin Act Synergistically on Biofilms and Display Increased Efficacy In Vivo Against Staphylococcus aureus ift.tt/JlGU6Ru
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5 Nov 2024
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.
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31 Oct 2024
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.
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1 Nov 2024
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.
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@corrigar1 @UCDMedicine @UCD_CHAS @OneHealthUCD
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1 Nov 2024
And for anyone wanting a link that works, try this science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
1 Nov 2024
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
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1 Nov 2024
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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1 Nov 2024
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
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1 Nov 2024
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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1 Nov 2024
Read more about our latest paper on S. aureus using an alternative mode of cell division to resist the effects of methicillin
1 Nov 2024
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 👇
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1 Nov 2024
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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31 Oct 2024
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
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31 Oct 2024
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. 🔬🧫📊
31 Oct 2024
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.
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