Kevin R Foster

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2015-2024
Publications (10 Years): 48

Top Venues

Nature communications

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Nature ecology & evolution

The ISME journal

University of Oxford

University of Sheffield (PHD)

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Affiliation History

University of Oxford Jan 01 2015

United Kingdom

Professor of Evolutionary Biology :: Zoology

University of Oxford Oct 01 2010 - Dec 31 2010

United Kingdom

Research Fellow :: Biochemistry

Harvard University Feb 01 2006 - Oct 01 2010

United States

Bauer Fellow :: FAS Center for Systems Biology

Helsingin Yliopisto Oct 01 2005 - Feb 01 2006

Finland

Helsinki University Fellow

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Sep 01 2004 - Oct 01 2005

Germany

Fellow

Rice University Jan 01 2001 - Sep 01 2004

United States

Huxley Research Fellow :: Ecology and Evolution

Education History

University of Sheffield Oct 01 1997 - Dec 15 2000

United Kingdom

PHD :: Animal and Plant Sciences

Publications

Jacob Wilde, Emma M C Slack, Kevin R Foster
Host control of the microbiome: Mechanisms, evolution, and disease. Science (New York, N.Y.) 385 (6706) (2024)
James H R Wheeler, Kevin R Foster, William M Durham
Individual bacterial cells can use spatial sensing of chemical gradients to direct chemotaxis on surfaces. Nature microbiology 9 (9) (2024)
Jacob Wilde, Emma M C Slack, Kevin R Foster
Host control of the microbiome: Mechanisms, evolution, and disease. Science (New York, N.Y.) 385 (6706) (2024)
James H R Wheeler, Kevin R Foster, William M Durham
Individual bacterial cells can use spatial sensing of chemical gradients to direct chemotaxis on surfaces. Nature microbiology 9 (9) (2024)
Chee Kin Then, Salome Paillas, Aliu Moomin, Mariya D Misheva, Rachel A Moir, Susan M Hay, David Bremner, Kristine S Roberts Nee Nellany, Ellen E Smith, Zeynab Heidari, Daniel Sescu, Xuedan Wang, Alejandro Suarez-Bonnet, Nadine Hay, Sarah L Murdoch, Ryoichi Saito, Elaina S R Collie-Duguid, Shirley Richardson, Simon Lawrence Priestnall, Joan M Wilson, Mahalakshmi Gurumurthy, Justine S Royle, Leslie M Samuel, George Ramsay, Katherine A Vallis, Kevin R Foster, James S O McCullagh, Anne E Kiltie
Dietary fibre supplementation enhances radiotherapy tumour control and alleviates intestinal radiation toxicity. Microbiome 12 (1) (2024)
Chee Kin Then, Salome Paillas, Aliu Moomin, Mariya D Misheva, Rachel A Moir, Susan M Hay, David Bremner, Kristine S Roberts Nee Nellany, Ellen E Smith, Zeynab Heidari, Daniel Sescu, Xuedan Wang, Alejandro Suarez-Bonnet, Nadine Hay, Sarah L Murdoch, Ryoichi Saito, Elaina S R Collie-Duguid, Shirley Richardson, Simon Lawrence Priestnall, Joan M Wilson, Mahalakshmi Gurumurthy, Justine S Royle, Leslie M Samuel, George Ramsay, Katherine A Vallis, Kevin R Foster, James S O McCullagh, Anne E Kiltie
Dietary fibre supplementation enhances radiotherapy tumour control and alleviates intestinal radiation toxicity. Microbiome 12 (1) (2024)
Elisa T Granato, William P J Smith, Kevin R Foster
Collective protection against the type VI secretion system in bacteria. The ISME journal (2023)
William P J Smith, Benjamin R Wucher, Carey D Nadell, Kevin R Foster
Bacterial defences: mechanisms, evolution and antimicrobial resistance. Nature reviews. Microbiology (2023)
Sean C Booth, William P J Smith, Kevin R Foster
The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition. Nature ecology & evolution (2023)
Elisa T Granato, William P J Smith, Kevin R Foster
Collective protection against the type VI secretion system in bacteria. The ISME journal (2023)
Frances Spragge, Erik Bakkeren, Martin T Jahn, Elizete B N Araujo, Claire F Pearson, Xuedan Wang, Louise Pankhurst, Olivier Cunrath, Kevin R Foster
Microbiome diversity protects against pathogens by nutrient blocking. Science (New York, N.Y.) 382 (6676) (2023)
William P J Smith, Benjamin R Wucher, Carey D Nadell, Kevin R Foster
Bacterial defences: mechanisms, evolution and antimicrobial resistance. Nature reviews. Microbiology (2023)
Elisa T Granato, William P J Smith, Kevin R Foster
Collective protection against the type VI secretion system in bacteria. The ISME journal (2023)
Yuguang Yang, Katharine Z Coyte, Kevin R Foster, Aming Li
Reactivity of complex communities can be more important than stability. Nature communications 14 (1) (2023)
William P J Smith, Benjamin R Wucher, Carey D Nadell, Kevin R Foster
Bacterial defences: mechanisms, evolution and antimicrobial resistance. Nature reviews. Microbiology (2023)
Yuguang Yang, Kevin R Foster, Katharine Z Coyte, Aming Li
Time delays modulate the stability of complex ecosystems. Nature ecology & evolution (2023)
Connor Sharp, Kevin R Foster
Host control and the evolution of cooperation in host microbiomes. Nature communications 13 (1) (2022)
Nathalie Nina Suhr Eiris Henriksen, Mads Frederik Hansen, Heiko T Kiesewalter, Jakob Russel, Joseph Nesme, Kevin R Foster, Birte Svensson, Gunnar Øregaard, Jakob Herschend, Mette Burmølle
Biofilm cultivation facilitates coexistence and adaptive evolution in an industrial bacterial community. NPJ biofilms and microbiomes 8 (1) (2022)
Ravinash Krishna Kumar, Kevin R Foster
3D printing of microbial communities: A new platform for understanding and engineering microbiomes. Microbial biotechnology 16 (3) (2022)
Ravinash Krishna Kumar, Kevin R Foster
3D printing of microbial communities: A new platform for understanding and engineering microbiomes. Microbial biotechnology 16 (3) (2022)
Jacob D Palmer, Kevin R Foster
The evolution of spectrum in antibiotics and bacteriocins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (38) (2022)
Nuno M Oliveira, James H R Wheeler, Cyril Deroy, Sean C Booth, Edmond J Walsh, William M Durham, Kevin R Foster
Suicidal chemotaxis in bacteria. Nature communications 13 (1) (2022)
Ravinash Krishna Kumar, Kevin R Foster
3D printing of microbial communities: A new platform for understanding and engineering microbiomes. Microbial biotechnology 16 (3) (2022)
Nuno M Oliveira, James H R Wheeler, Cyril Deroy, Sean C Booth, Edmond J Walsh, William M Durham, Kevin R Foster
Suicidal chemotaxis in bacteria. Nature communications 13 (1) (2022)
Nuno M Oliveira, James H R Wheeler, Cyril Deroy, Sean C Booth, Edmond J Walsh, William M Durham, Kevin R Foster
Suicidal chemotaxis in bacteria. Nature communications 13 (1) (2022)
Ravinash Krishna Kumar, Kevin R Foster
3D printing of microbial communities: A new platform for understanding and engineering microbiomes. Microbial biotechnology 16 (3) (2022)
Ravinash Krishna Kumar, Kevin R Foster
3D printing of microbial communities: A new platform for understanding and engineering microbiomes. Microbial biotechnology (2022)
Michael A Bentley, Christian A Yates, Jotun Hein, Gail M Preston, Kevin R Foster
Pleiotropic constraints promote the evolution of cooperation in cellular groups. PLoS biology 20 (6) (2022)
Nuno M Oliveira, James H R Wheeler, Cyril Deroy, Sean C Booth, Edmond J Walsh, William M Durham, Kevin R Foster
Suicidal chemotaxis in bacteria. Nature communications 13 (1) (2022)
Ravinash Krishna Kumar, Thomas A Meiller-Legrand, Alessandro Alcinesio, Diego Gonzalez, Despoina A I Mavridou, Oliver J Meacock, William P J Smith, Linna Zhou, Wook Kim, Gökçe Su Pulcu, Hagan Bayley, Kevin R Foster
Droplet printing reveals the importance of micron-scale structure for bacterial ecology. Nature communications 12 (1) (2021)
Katharine Z Coyte, Chitong Rao, Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, Kevin R Foster
Ecological rules for the assembly of microbiome communities. PLoS biology 19 (2) (2021)
Rene Niehus, Nuno M Oliveira, Aming Li, Alexander G Fletcher, Kevin R Foster
The evolution of strategy in bacterial warfare via the regulation of bacteriocins and antibiotics. eLife 10 (2021)
William P J Smith, Maj Brodmann, Daniel Unterweger, Yohan Davit, Laurie E Comstock, Marek Basler, Kevin R Foster
The evolution of tit-for-tat in bacteria via the type VI secretion system. Nature communications 11 (1) (2020)
J Arvid Ågren, Nicholas G Davies, Kevin R Foster
Reply to: Broad definitions of enforcement are unhelpful for understanding evolutionary mechanisms of cooperation. Nature ecology & evolution 4 (3) (2020)
William P J Smith, Andrea Vettiger, Julius Winter, Till Ryser, Laurie E Comstock, Marek Basler, Kevin R Foster
The evolution of the type VI secretion system as a disintegration weapon. PLoS biology 18 (5) (2020)
Lise Dieltjens, Kenny Appermans, Maries Lissens, Bram Lories, Wook Kim, Erik V Van der Eycken, Kevin R Foster, Hans P Steenackers
Inhibiting bacterial cooperation is an evolutionarily robust anti-biofilm strategy. Nature communications 11 (1) (2020)
J Arvid Ågren, Nicholas G Davies, Kevin R Foster
Enforcement is central to the evolution of cooperation. Nature ecology & evolution 3 (7) (2019)
Katerina V-A Johnson, Kevin R Foster
Why does the microbiome affect behaviour? Nature reviews. Microbiology 16 (10) (2019)
Alfred Fillol-Salom, Ahlam Alsaadi, Jorge André Moura de Sousa, Li Zhong, Kevin R Foster, Eduardo P C Rocha, José R Penadés, Hanne Ingmer, Jakob Haaber
Bacteriophages benefit from generalized transduction. PLoS pathogens 15 (7) (2019)
Isabel Frost, William P J Smith, Sara Mitri, Alvaro San Millan, Yohan Davit, James M Osborne, Joe M Pitt-Francis, Pauline Hall Barrientos, Kevin R Foster
Cooperation, competition and antibiotic resistance in bacterial colonies. The ISME journal 12 (6) (2018)
Batbileg Bor, Jeffrey S McLean, Kevin R Foster, Lujia Cen, Thao T To, Alejandro Serrato-Guillen, Floyd E Dewhirst, Wenyuan Shi, Xuesong He
Rapid evolution of decreased host susceptibility drives a stable relationship between ultrasmall parasite TM7x and its bacterial host. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (48) (2018)
Diego Gonzalez, Akshay Sabnis, Kevin R Foster, Despoina A I Mavridou
Costs and benefits of provocation in bacterial warfare. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (29) (2018)
Katharine Z Coyte, Hervé Tabuteau, Eamonn A Gaffney, Kevin R Foster, William M Durham
Reply to Baveye and Darnault: Useful models are simple and extendable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (14) (2017)
Edmond J Walsh, Alexander Feuerborn, James H R Wheeler, Ann Na Tan, William M Durham, Kevin R Foster, Peter R Cook
Microfluidics with fluid walls. Nature communications 8 (1) (2017)
Ben Ashby, Eleanor Watkins, Paul S Wikramaratna, Sunetra Gupta, Kevin R Foster
Competing species leave many potential niches unfilled. Nature ecology & evolution 1 (10) (2017)
Nuno M Oliveira, Kevin R Foster, William M Durham
Single-cell twitching chemotaxis in developing biofilms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (23) (2016)
William P J Smith, Yohan Davit, James M Osborne, Wook Kim, Kevin R Foster, Joe M Pitt-Francis
Cell morphology drives spatial patterning in microbial communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (3) (2016)
Katharine Z Coyte, Hervé Tabuteau, Eamonn A Gaffney, Kevin R Foster, William M Durham
Microbial competition in porous environments can select against rapid biofilm growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (2) (2016)
Sara Mitri, Ellen Clarke, Kevin R Foster
Resource limitation drives spatial organization in microbial groups. The ISME journal 10 (6) (2015)

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