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47
Citations
11457
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4102
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Bonita J. Brewer is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with notable contributions to Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The scientist's work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Cell Biology, and Physiology.

The main topics of research covered by Bonita J. Brewer include:

  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

Bonita J. Brewer has published frequently in several scientific venues, with the largest number of papers appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other notable journals include PLoS Genetics, Genetics, Cell Reports, and The FASEB Journal. The count of publications per venue is as follows:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory): 5
  • PLoS Genetics: 2
  • Genetics: 2
  • Cell Reports: 1
  • The FASEB Journal: 1

Recent notable papers by Bonita J. Brewer include:

  • A unifying model that explains the origins of human inverted copy number variants, 2024, PLoS Genetics
  • Template switching between the leading and lagging strands at replication forks generates inverted copy number variants through hairpin-capped extrachromosomal DNA, 2024, PLoS Genetics
  • Ribosomal DNA replication time coordinates completion of genome replication and anaphase in yeast, 2023, Cell Reports
  • Hotspot of de novo telomere addition stabilizes linear amplicons in yeast grown in sulfate-limiting conditions, 2023, Genetics
  • rDNA copy number variation in yeast alters response to environmental conditions, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has collaborated extensively with other researchers, including frequent co-authors such as M. K. Raghuraman, Maitreya J. Dunham, Elizabeth X. Kwan, Gina M. Alvino, and Christine Queitsch.

Bonita J. Brewer was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • The localization of replication origins on ARS plasmids in S. cerevisiae.

    Bonita J. Brewer;Walton L. Fangman

  • Replication Dynamics of the Yeast Genome

    M. K. Raghuraman;Elizabeth A. Winzeler;David Collingwood;Sonia Hunt

  • A replication fork barrier at the 3' end of yeast ribosomal RNA genes.

    Bonita J. Brewer;Walton L. Fangman

  • When polymerases collide: replication and the transcriptional organization of the E. coli chromosome.

    Bonita J. Brewer

  • Histone Acetylation Regulates the Time of Replication Origin Firing

    Maria Vogelauer;Liudmilla Rubbi;Isabelle Lucas;Bonita J Brewer

  • Analysis of replication intermediates by two-dimensional agarose gel electrophoresis.

    Katherine L. Friedman;Bonita J. Brewer

  • The arrest of replication forks in the rDNA of yeast occurs independently of transcription

    Bonita J. Brewer;Daniel Lockshon;Walton L. Fangman

  • Genomic mapping of single-stranded DNA in hydroxyurea-challenged yeasts identifies origins of replication

    Wenyi Feng;David Collingwood;Max E. Boeck;Lindsay A. Fox

  • Replication in Hydroxyurea: It's a Matter of Time

    Gina M. Alvino;David Collingwood;John M. Murphy;Jeffrey Delrow

  • Cdc7 is required throughout the yeast S phase to activate replication origins

    Anne D. Donaldson;Walton L. Fangman;Bonita J. Brewer

  • A yeast origin of replication is activated late in S phase

    Betsy M. Ferguson;Bonita J. Brewer;Ann E. Reynolds;Walton L. Fangman

  • Rif1 controls DNA replication by directing Protein Phosphatase 1 to reverse Cdc7-mediated phosphorylation of the MCM complex

    Shin Ichiro Hiraga;Gina M. Alvino;FuJung Chang;Hui Yong Lian

  • Replication of each copy of the yeast 2 micron DNA plasmid occurs during the S phase

    Virginia Araxie Zakian;Bonita J. Brewer;Walton L. Fangman

  • CLB5-Dependent Activation of Late Replication Origins in S. cerevisiae

    Anne D Donaldson;M.K Raghuraman;Katherine L Friedman;Frederick R Cross

  • Replication profile of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome VI

    Katherine L. Friedman;Bonita J. Brewer;Walton L. Fangman

  • Activation of replication origins within yeast chromosomes.

    Walton L. Fangman;Bonita J. Brewer

  • Cell Cycle-Dependent Establishment of a Late Replication Program

    M. K. Raghuraman;Bonita J. Brewer;Walton L. Fangman

  • A role for recombination junctions in the segregation of mitochondrial DNA in yeast.

    Daniel Lockshon;Stephan G Zweifel;Lisa L Freeman-Cook;Heather E Lorimer

  • Multiple determinants controlling activation of yeast replication origins late in S phase.

    Katherine L. Friedman;John D. Diller;John D. Diller;Betsy M. Ferguson;Sarah V.M. Nyland

  • A question of time: Replication origins of eukaryotic chromosomes

    Walton L. Fangman;Bonita J. Brewer

Frequent Co-Authors

Walton L. Fangman
Walton L. Fangman University of Washington
Maitreya J. Dunham
Maitreya J. Dunham University of Washington
Christine Queitsch
Christine Queitsch University of Washington
Matt Kaeberlein
Matt Kaeberlein University of Washington
Jeffrey J. Delrow
Jeffrey J. Delrow Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Virginia A. Zakian
Virginia A. Zakian Princeton University
Brian K. Kennedy
Brian K. Kennedy National University of Singapore
Leonid Kruglyak
Leonid Kruglyak University of California, Los Angeles
Ronald W. Davis
Ronald W. Davis Stanford University
John A. Stamatoyannopoulos
John A. Stamatoyannopoulos University of Washington

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