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Patricia L. Foster

Patricia L. Foster

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Genetics

D-Index
47
Citations
10925
World Ranking
4106
National Ranking
1774

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Patricia L. Foster is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and specializes primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their research contributions span several subfields including Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cancer Research, Nephrology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The scientist's main research topics include DNA Repair Mechanisms, DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, and Participatory Visual Research Methods.

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work are:

  • Brittany A. Niccum
  • Heewook Lee
  • Christopher P. Coplen
  • Wazim Mohammed Ismail
  • Haixu Tang

Selected recent publications authored or co-authored by Patricia L. Foster include:

  • DNA Replication-Transcription Conflicts Do Not Significantly Contribute to Spontaneous Mutations Due to Replication Errors in Escherichia coli (2021, mBio)
  • New complexities of SOS-induced "untargeted" mutagenesis in Escherichia coli as revealed by mutation accumulation and whole-genome sequencing (2020, DNA repair)
  • "Collaborative Autoethnographic Writing as Communal Curative" (2022, International Review of Qualitative Research)
  • Postpartum Diagnosis of Lupus Nephritis in a Patient with Preeclampsia Presenting with AKI and Decompensated Heart Failure (2024, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology)
  • 152 More Than the Tip of the Problem (2023, American Journal of Kidney Diseases)

Their publications appear frequently in journals such as the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), DNA repair, mBio, and the International Review of Qualitative Research.

Patricia L. Foster was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Genetic drift, selection and the evolution of the mutation rate

    Michael Lynch;Matthew S. Ackerman;Jean Francois Gout;Hongan Long

  • Rate and molecular spectrum of spontaneous mutations in the bacterium Escherichia coli as determined by whole-genome sequencing

    Heewook Lee;Ellen Popodi;Haixu Tang;Patricia L. Foster

  • Stress-induced mutagenesis in bacteria.

    Patricia L Foster

  • Adaptive Reversion of a Frameshift Mutation in Escherichia coli

    J Cairns;P L Foster

  • Determining Mutation Rates in Bacterial Populations

    William A. Rosche;Patricia L. Foster

  • Base substitution mutations induced by metabolically activated aflatoxin B1.

    P L Foster;E Eisenstadt;J H Miller

  • The Coordinated Functions of the E. coli MutS and MutL Proteins in Mismatch Repair

    Samir Acharya;Patricia L. Foster;Peter Brooks;Richard Fishel

  • Methods for Determining Spontaneous Mutation Rates

    Patricia L. Foster

  • Adaptive Mutation: The Uses of Adversity

    Patricia L. Foster

  • Adaptive mutation in Escherichia coli.

    Patricia L. Foster

  • Error-prone DNA polymerase IV is controlled by the stress-response sigma factor, RpoS, in Escherichia coli.

    Jill C. Layton;Patricia L. Foster

  • Mechanisms of Stationary Phase Mutation: A Decade of Adaptive Mutation

    P. L. Foster

  • Stress responses and genetic variation in bacteria.

    Patricia L. Foster

  • Adaptive reversion of a frameshift mutation in Escherichia coli by simple base deletions in homopolymeric runs

    Patricia L. Foster;Jeffrey M. Trimarchi

  • Mechanisms of directed mutation.

    P L Foster;J Cairns

  • Copper exclusion as a mechanism of heavy metal tolerance in a green alga

    Patricia L. Foster

  • Adaptive mutation: implications for evolution.

    Patricia L. Foster

  • Two Enzymes, Both of Which Process Recombination Intermediates, Have Opposite Effects on Adaptive Mutation in Escherichia coli

    Patricia L. Foster;Jeffrey M. Trimarchi;Russell A. Maurer

  • Nonadaptive mutations occur on the F' episome during adaptive mutation conditions in Escherichia coli.

    Patricia L. Foster

  • Determinants of spontaneous mutation in the bacterium Escherichia coli as revealed by whole-genome sequencing.

    Patricia L. Foster;Heewook Lee;Ellen Popodi;Jesse P. Townes

Frequent Co-Authors

Haixu Tang
Haixu Tang Indiana University
Myron F. Goodman
Myron F. Goodman University of Southern California
Gudmundur H. Gudmundsson
Gudmundur H. Gudmundsson University of Iceland
Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch Arizona State University
W. Kelley Thomas
W. Kelley Thomas University of New Hampshire
Bryn A. Bridges
Bryn A. Bridges University of Sussex
James W. Hicks
James W. Hicks University of Southern California
Susan T. Lovett
Susan T. Lovett Brandeis University
Richard Fishel
Richard Fishel The Ohio State University
Martin G. Marinus
Martin G. Marinus University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

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