Our Publications

Bacterial threat assessment of bacteriophage infection is mediated by intracellular polyamine accumulation and Gac/Rsm signaling (2023)

Camilla de Mattos, Artem Nemudryi, Dominick Faith, DeAnna Bublitz, Lauren Hammond, Margie Kinnersley, Caleb Schwartzkopf, Autumn Robinson, Alex Joyce, Lia Michaels, Robert Brzozowski, Alison Coluccio, Denghui David Xing, Jumpei Uchiyama, Laura Jennings, Prahathees Eswara, Blake Wiedenheft, and Patrick Secor. “Bacterial threat assessment of bacteriophage infection is mediated by intracellular polyamine accumulation and Gac/Rsm signaling.” PNAS (2023)

Staphylococcus aureus FtsZ and PBP4 bind to the conformationally dynamic N-terminal domain of GpsB (2022)

Michael Sacco, Lauren Hammond, Radwan Noor, Dipanwita Bhattacharya, Jesper Madsen, Xiujun Zhang, Shane Butler, M Trent Kemp, Aiden Jaskolka-Brown, Sebastian Khan, Ioannis Gelis, Prahathees Eswara*, and Yu Chen*. “Staphylococcus aureus FtsZ and PBP4 bind to the conformationally dynamic N-terminal domain of GpsB.” bioRxiv (2022)

MraZ transcriptionally controls the critical level of FtsL required for focusing Z-rings and kickstarting septation in Bacillus subtilis (2022)

GpsB coordinates cell division and cell surface decoration by wall teichoic acids in Staphylococcus aureus (2022)

Lauren Hammond, Michael Sacco, Sebastian Khan, Catherine Spanoudis, Abigail Hough, Yu Chen, and Prahathees Eswara*. "GpsB coordinates cell division and cell surface decoration by wall teichoic acids in Staphylococcus aureus." Microbiology Spectrum (2022)

USF researchers focus on the ‘Achilles heel’ of drug-resistant bacteria: Cell division

University of South Florida
The recent publications of our lab were advertised university-wide by a USF CAS Chronicles article.

USF Researcher Awarded NIH Outstanding Investigator Grant for Understanding and Limiting Bacterial Proliferation

University of South Florida
The news of our NIH R35 MIRA-ESI award, a first of its kind for USF, was celebrated through an USF News article.

Time to Split

Nature Reviews Microbiology
A review article highlighted the key findings of our 2018 eLife paper.

Fighting Staph on a Cellular Level

University of South Florida
Our 2018 eLife paper was advertised university-wide by an USF News article.

Study reveals function of protein crucial to survival of Staph infections

National Institutes of Health
The National Cancer Institute covered our 2018 eLife paper in a news article.

Eswara Lab