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Dr Arthur Hosie

Principal Lecturer

School of Science & Technology

Staff Group(s)
Bioscience

Role

Arthur Hosie is Principal Lecturer in Biosciences at Nottingham Trent University. He is the postgraduate courses manager within the Department of Biosciences and the course leader for the MSc Biomedical Science (flexible learning) course (pre-Sept '25 cohorts).
Arthur was previously the year tutor for the second year BSc Biomedical Science student cohort and remains a personal tutor on this course.
Arthur is the module leader for the level 6 Infectious Disease & its Control module. Arthur also contributes to the level 5 Clinical & Public Health Microbiology module, and the Research Project (apprenticeship) on the BSc Applied Biomedical Science level 6 degree apprenticeship.

Career overview

Arthur joined Nottingham Trent University in 2023 as an experienced academic, with the following previous roles:

  • Course Director (Biological Sciences), University of Staffordshire (2020-2023)
  • Senior Lecturer in Biomedical and Biological Sciences (Microbiology), University of Staffordshire (2018 to 2020)
  • Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, University of Bedfordshire (2010-2018)
  • Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology, King’s College London Dental Institute (2003-2010)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Reading (1998-2003)
  • PhD in Microbiology, University of Glasgow (1994-1997)
  • Scientific Officer, Moredun Research Institute (1991-1994)
  • BSc (H) Microbiology, University of Glasgow (1987-1991)

Research areas

S Basavanna, S Chimalapati, A Maqbool, B Rubbo, J Yuste, RJ Wilson, A Hosie, AD Ogunniyi, JC Paton, G Thomas, JS Brown (2013) The effects of methionine acquisition and synthesis on Streptococcus pneumoniae growth and virulence. PLOS One 8 (1): e49638. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049638.

J Prell, A Bourdes. S Kumar, S Lodwig, A Hosie, S Kinghorn, J White, P Poole (2010) Role of symbiotic auxotrophy in Rhizobium-legume symbioses. PLOS One5 (11): e13933. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0013933.

E Severi, AHF Hosie, J Hawkhead, GH Thomas (2010) Characterisation of a novel sialic acid transporter of the sodium solute symporter (SSS) family and in vivo comparison with known bacterial sialic acid transporters. FEMS Microbiology Letters 304 47-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01881.x

S Basavanna, S Khandavilli, J Yuste, JM Cohen, AHF Hosie, AJ Webb, GH Thomas, JS Brown (2009) Screening of Streptococcus pneumoniae ABC transporter mutants demonstrates that LivJHMGF, a branched chain amino acid ABC transporter, is necessary for disease pathogenesis., Infection and Immunity 77 (8), 3412-3423. https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.01543-08

H Thompson, KA Homer, S Rao, V Booth, AHF Hosie, (2009) An orthologue of Bacteroides fragilis NanH is the principal sialidase in Tannerella forsythia, Journal of Bacteriology 191 (11) 3263-3628. doi: 10.1128/JB.01618-08

AJ Webb, KA Homer, AHF Hosie (2008) Two closely related ABC transporters in Streptococcus mutans are involved in di/oligosaccharide uptake. Journal of Bacteriology 190 (1) 168-178. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.01509-07

AJ Webb, KA Homer, AHF Hosie (2007) A phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system is the principal maltose transporter in Streptococcus mutans. Journal of Bacteriology 189 3322-3327. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.01633-06

E Allan, H Hussain, S Miah, ZK Ascott, MH Khwaja and AHF Hosie (2007) Genetic variation in comC, the gene encoding competence-stimulating peptide (CSP) in Streptococcus mutans. FEMS Microbiology Letters 268 47-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00593.x

TH Mauchline, JE Fowler, AK East, AL Sartor, R Zaheer, AHF Hosie, PS Poole & TM Finan (2006) Mapping the Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021 solute binding protein-dependent transportome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 17933-17938. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606673103

A Webb and AHF Hosie (2006) A member of the second carbohydrate uptake subfamily of ATP-binding cassette transporters is responsible for ribonucleoside uptake in Streptococcus mutans. Journal of Bacteriology188 8005-8012. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.01101-06

MA Fox, JP White, AHF Hosie, EMLodwig and PS Poole (2006) Osmotic upshift transiently inhibits uptake via ABC transporters in Gram-negative bacteria. Journal of Bacteriology 188 5304-5307. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00262-06

K Karunakaran, TH Mauchline, AHFHosie, PS Poole (2005) A family of promoter probe vectors incorporating autofluorescent (AFP) and chromogenic reporter proteins for studying gene expression in Gram-negative bacteria. Microbiology151 3249-3256. https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28311-0

EM Lodwig*, AHF Hosie*, A Bourdès, K Findlay, D Allaway, R Karunakaran, JA Downie and PS Poole (2003) Amino-acid cycling drives nitrogen fixation in the legume-Rhizobium symbiosis. Nature 422 722-725. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01527
(*These authors contributed equally to this work)

AHF Hosie, D Allaway, and PS Poole (2002) A monocarboxylate permease of Rhizobium leguminosarum is the first member of a new subfamily of transporters. Journal of Bacteriology 184 5436-5448.https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.184.19.5436-5448.2002

AHF Hosie, D Allaway, HA Dunsby, CS Galloway, and PS Poole (2002) Rhizobium leguminosarum has a second general amino acid permease with unusually broad substrate specificity and high similarity to branched-chain amino acid transporters (Bra/LIV) of the ABC family. Journal of Bacteriology184 4071-4080.https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.184.15.4071-4080.2002

RA Carter, KH Yeoman, A Klein, AHF Hosie, G Sawers, PS Poole and AWB Johnston (2002) dpp genes of Rhizobium leguminosarum specify uptake of delta-amino-levulinic acid. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 15 69-74. https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI.2002.15.1.69

AHF Hosie and PS Poole (2001) Bacterial ABC transporters of amino acids. Research in Microbiology 152 259-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0923-2508(01)01197-4

AHF Hosie, D Allaway, MA Jones, DL Walshaw, AWB Johnston and PS Poole (2001) Solute-binding protein-dependent ABC transporters are responsible for solute efflux in addition to solute uptake. Molecular Microbiology 40 1449-1459. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02497.x

NF Inglis, K Stevenson, AHF Hosie and JM Sharp (1994) Complete sequence of the gene encoding the bacterioferritin subunit of Mycobacterium avium subspecies silvaticum. Gene150 205-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-1119(94)90889-3

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