Foster Lab

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

[Foster Lab @foster_lab]

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!!

https://t.co/Ielp7YQ04q

[microbesNG @microbesNG]

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 👉https://t.co/ubNSI4V1TN

[Carolin Kobras 🎓♦️🐍🐍 @carokobras]

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!

https://t.co/lx8BU5PsOT

[Charles Winterhalter @Ch_Winterhalter]

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? https://t.co/6TpedBjudf

[Paprapach @Paprapach]

The role of lipoteichoic acid in Staphylococcus aureus cell wall integrity https://t.co/rtihvcgYdi

[David I Roper @davidroper2]

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.
https://t.co/ESHGuliTBx

[Eric Pollitt @StaphEric]

Staphylococcus aureus gliding comets: formation and observation - new observations of the S. aureus comets and how to get the assay to work https://t.co/00sQertYvt

[Staph papers @Staph_papers]

Tetracycline and Oxacillin Act Synergistically on Biofilms and Display Increased Efficacy In Vivo Against Staphylococcus aureus https://t.co/p6rqialaSp

[Foster Lab @foster_lab]

Very happy to see this paper by @AKTooke out there! Congratulations Amy!!

[Charles Winterhalter @Ch_Winterhalter]

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.

https://t.co/7a9TYDiHNl

[Callum has flown to 🦋 callumpr.bsky.social @callumjpr]

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.
https://t.co/MRyq6ep2eX

[UCD Research @UCD_Research]

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.

➡️https://t.co/8BjQhOMNfe

@corrigar1 @UCDMedicine @UCD_CHAS @OneHealthUCD

[David I Roper @davidroper2]

And for anyone wanting a link that works, try this https://t.co/xDs4IPYiwa

[UCD Medicine @UCDMedicine]

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👉https://t.co/1jL4owpVMS

[Foster Lab @foster_lab]

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!

[Foster Lab @foster_lab]

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

https://t.co/y2UcirhNZN…

[Foster Lab @foster_lab]

Read more about our latest paper on S. aureus using an alternative mode of cell division to resist the effects of methicillin

[The University of Sheffield @sheffielduni]

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 👇
https://t.co/TynU5868EK

[Paul Hoskisson 😷🔬🧫🧬🐸🐍🦎 @PaulHoskisson]

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 https://t.co/cd8p96ruy4

[Abimbola_Olulana @Olulana4]

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
https://t.co/EJZqgQQOq7

[Pasquina-Lemonche Lab @Laia_Pasquina]

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. 🔬🧫📊