Amy Louise Bottomley BSc(Hons), PhD

Dr Amy Bottomley obtained her B.Sc (Hons) in microbiology in 2007, before undertaking her PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Simon Foster at the University of Sheffield, UK. During her PhD she studied the bacterial cell division process in Staphylococcus aureus, the causative agent of ‘golden staph’ infections. After being awarded her PhD in 2011, she continued in Sheffield as a Post-Doctoral Researcher to develop methods for super resolution fluorescence microscopy to study bacterial cell division proteins.