Congratulations to Aaron Nolan and Josh Sutton for winning the presentation prizes by judges Timothy Foster and Simon Clarke

Great to spend a few days with research focussed colleagues from other Universities Staph GBI Conference 2023 in Galway! Timothy Foster & I judged the talks; congrats to Aaron Nolan from @JOG_Lab_Galway winner of the PhD student prize and Josh Sutton from Foster Lab winner of the Post Doc prize.

Congratulations Lucy! Great to see Molecular Microbiology Sheffield being so well represented at #StaphGBI2023

Thank you so much Staph GBI Conference 2023 @timfosterTCD and Simon Clarke. So many great talks so really honoured to have won the postdoc presentation prize

More amazing funding news. Pasquina-Lemonche Lab has been awarded a @WellcomeTrust Early-Career Award to decipher the cell wall architecture and growth dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae at molecular resolution using #AFM and #STORM. Congratulations Laia and welcome to our cluster!

Our new publication on the role of GpsB in cell shape determination in S. aureus is out now! Congratulations Josh Sutton and everyone involved! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

My second first author paper is out now! We show that GpsB plays a role in shape determination in S.aureus. (I'm particularly pleased with the 3-colour SIM images in the supplementary)

The roles of GpsB and DivIVA in Staphylococcus aureus growth and division ift.tt/Qbk6JdO

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New paper out 🤓 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

It's official, I am about to start my lab working on bacterial DNA damage repair as a Wellcome Early Career Fellow CBCB Newcastle Newcastle University 🧬🦠🔬 I will soon advertise PhD and postdoc positions, please contact me to join the team if interested!

When Josh Sutton sent me an eppendorf Rudolf tutorial, how could I not make it my number 1 priority at work today?!

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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/sc…

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 Group Abimbola_Olulana doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

MRSA, an antimicrobial resistance superbug, causes over 120,000 deaths per year. A new study led by The University of Sheffield, funded by Ukri Jubuhuhu, has revealed the bugs’ double defence mechanism against antibiotics - a crucial step in developing new ways to target its survival strategy. Read

This is an amazing collaborative piece of work between lots of groups: Rebecca Corrigan Pasquina-Lemonche Lab Sheffield AFM Group Oliver Meacock Kasia Wacnik Abimbola_Olulana. Congratulations to everyone involved and thank you to everyone who helped us get this story out there!

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/sc…