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  • 1970 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Patrick F. Dowd is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Medicine.

The subfields in which they have contributed include Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Epidemiology, Insect Science, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Their work engages with several main topics such as:

  • Insect Resistance and Genetics
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Insect Pest Control Strategies
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Dowd's recent publications highlight a range of issues related to public health and biological sciences. Selected papers include:

  • "Barriers to opioid use disorder treatment among people who use drugs in the rural United States: A qualitative, multi-site study" (2024), published in Social Science & Medicine
  • "I've been to more of my friends' funerals than I've been to my friends' weddings": Witnessing and responding to overdose in rural Northern New England (2022), published in The Journal of Rural Health
  • "I am not a junkie": Social categorization and differentiation among people who use drugs (2023), published in International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Integrating user experience evaluation in the development of a web-based Community Engagement Toolkit (2022), published in Evaluation and Program Planning
  • Syringe Access, Syringe Sharing, and Perceptions of HCV: A Qualitative Study Exploring the HCV Risk Environment in Rural Northern New England, United States (2024), published in Viruses

Frequent co-authors in Dowd's research include:

  • Eric T. Johnson
  • Peter D. Friedmann
  • Elyse Bianchet
  • Thomas J. Stopka
  • Todd A. Naumann

Dowd has published multiple papers in several key journals, indicating areas of sustained research interest. These venues include:

  • Plant Gene
  • Viruses
  • Biocontrol Science and Technology
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • The Journal of Rural Health

Among their recognitions, Dowd was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1970.

Best Publications

  • United States Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service research on pre‐harvest prevention of mycotoxins and mycotoxigenic fungi in US crops

    Thomas E Cleveland;Patrick F Dowd;Anne E Desjardins;Deepak Bhatnagar

  • Effects of PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE (PAL) knockdown on cell wall composition, biomass digestibility, and biotic and abiotic stress responses in Brachypodium

    Cynthia L. Cass;Antoine Peraldi;Patrick F. Dowd;Yaseen Mottiar

  • Sclerotiamide: A New Member of the Paraherquamide Class with Potent Antiinsectan Activity from the Sclerotia of Aspergillus sclerotiorum

    Authrine C. Whyte;James B. Gloer;Donald T. Wicklow;Patrick F. Dowd

  • Insect fungal symbionts: A promising source of detoxifying enzymes

    Patrick F. Dowd

  • Detoxification of plant toxins by insects

    Patrick F. Dowd;C. Michael Smith;Thomas C. Sparks

  • Toxicological and biochemical interactions of the fungal metabolites fusaric acid and kojic acid with xenobiotics in Heliothis zea (F.) and Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith)

    Patrick F. Dowd

  • Dissemination of Beneficial Microbial Agents by Insects

    Fernando E. Vega;Patrick F. Dowd;Lawrence A. Lacey;Judith K. Pell

  • Indirect Reduction of Ear Molds and Associated Mycotoxins in Bacillus thuringiensis Corn Under Controlled and Open Field Conditions: Utility and Limitations

    Patrick F. Dowd

  • Biotic and abiotic factors limiting efficacy of Bt corn in indirectly reducing mycotoxin levels in commercial fields.

    Patrick F. Dowd

  • Antifungal Metabolites (Monorden, Monocillin IV, and Cerebrosides) from Humicola fuscoatra Traaen NRRL 22980, a Mycoparasite of Aspergillus flavus Sclerotia

    Donald T. Wicklow;Biren K. Joshi;William R. Gamble;James B. Gloer

  • Insect Management to Facilitate Preharvest Mycotoxin Management

    Patrick F. Dowd

  • Differentially enhanced insect resistance, at a cost, in Arabidopsis thaliana constitutively expressing a transcription factor of defensive metabolites.

    Eric T. Johnson;Patrick F. Dowd

  • Detoxification spectrum of the cigarette beetle symbiont Symbiotaphrina kochii in culture

    S. K. Shen;P. F. Dowd

  • Nominine: a new insecticidal indole diterpene from the sclerotia of Aspergillus nomius

    James B. Gloer;Brad L. Rinderknecht;Donald T. Wicklow;Patrick F. Dowd

  • Aflavarin and β-Aflatrem: New Anti-Insectan Metabolites from the Sclerotia of Aspergillus flavus

    Mark R. TePaske;James B. Gloer;Donald T. Wicklow;Patrick F. Dowd

  • Functional characterization of a veA-dependent polyketide synthase gene in Aspergillus flavus necessary for the synthesis of asparasone, a sclerotium-specific pigment

    Jeffrey W. Cary;Pamela Y. Harris-Coward;Kenneth C. Ehrlich;José Diana Di Mavungu

  • Antiinsectan aflavinine derivatives from the sclerotia of Aspergillus flavus

    James B. Gloer;Mark R. TePaske;John S. Sima;Donald T. Wicklow

  • New p-Terphenyl and Polyketide Metabolites from the Sclerotia of Penicillium raistrickii

    Gilbert N. Belofsky;Katherine B. Gloer;James B. Gloer;Donald T. Wicklow

  • Aggregation pheromone of driedfruit beetle,Carpophilus hemipterus Wind-tunnel bioassay and identification of two novel tetraene hydrocarbons.

    Robert J. Bartelt;Patrick F. Dowd;Ronald D. Plattner;David Weisleder

  • The contribution of symbiotic yeast to toxin resistance of the cigarette beetle (Lasioderma serricorne)

    Patrick F. Dowd;Samuel K. Shen

Frequent Co-Authors

James B. Gloer
James B. Gloer University of Iowa
Donald T. Wicklow
Donald T. Wicklow National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Mark A. Berhow
Mark A. Berhow United States Department of Agriculture
Dale C. Swenson
Dale C. Swenson University of Iowa
Michael A. Cotta
Michael A. Cotta National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Deepak Bhatnagar
Deepak Bhatnagar Agricultural Research Service
Daniel A. Herms
Daniel A. Herms The Ohio State University
Scott E. Sattler
Scott E. Sattler Agricultural Research Service
Joshua LaBaer
Joshua LaBaer Arizona State University
Kenneth C. Ehrlich
Kenneth C. Ehrlich US Department of Agriculture

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