Sara Costa defends her thesis on cell division and elongation
September 15, 2023
Congratulations to Sara Costa, who defended her thesis and was awarded her PhD today. In Sara’s thesis, New approaches to study Staphlococcus aureus elongation and division, she discusses work implementing fluorescence microscopy techniques for studying protein-protein interaction in S. aureus and reports identifying GpsB as a non-essential protein that impacts cell elongation in S. aureus – this work is preprinted at biorxiv and was overseen by Sara’s co-supervisor, Mariana Pinho.
This only scratches the surface of the work covered during Sara’s PhD. She also played an essential role in our investigation of the E. coli divisome and in single-molecule imaging of transcription elongation in E. coli.
