Matthew J Shepherd
@matthewjshepherd.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Manchester, with Prof. Mike Brockhurst. Understanding and predicting the evolution of antimicrobial resistance in clinical Pseudomonas 🔬🦠
Reposted by Matthew J Shepherd
New work from @colomer-winter.bsky.social shows that E. faecalis doesn’t wait for mutations at all - it immediately rewires its membrane lipids as a stress response to daptomycin. And surprisingly, the cell ends up looking a lot like a resistant strain before any genetic change happens.
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
New work from @colomer-winter.bsky.social shows that E. faecalis doesn’t wait for mutations at all - it immediately rewires its membrane lipids as a stress response to daptomycin. And surprisingly, the cell ends up looking a lot like a resistant strain before any genetic change happens.