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Victoria Lundblad publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Victoria Lundblad sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 86 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Victoria Lundblad D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Victoria Lundblad sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Victoria Lundblad is affiliated with the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within the life sciences, focusing particularly on mechanisms related to telomeres, DNA repair, and genetic variations.

Their recent publications include:

  • Spontaneous replication fork collapse regulates telomere length homeostasis in wild type cells, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The canonical RPA complex interacts with Est3 to regulate yeast telomerase activity, 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Lundblad's frequent coauthors are:

  • Margherita Paschini
  • Abigail Gillespie
  • Deborah S. Wuttke
  • Cynthia M. Reyes
  • Karen A. Lewis

Their work appears regularly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Lundblad's main fields of study include Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, covering subfields such as Physiology, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Key topics addressed in their research are:

  • Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases

In recognition of their contributions, Lundblad was named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Reverse Transcriptase Motifs in the Catalytic Subunit of Telomerase

    Joachim Lingner;Timothy R. Hughes;Andrej Shevchenko;Matthias Mann

  • An alternative pathway for yeast telomere maintenance rescues est1− senescence

    Victoria Lundblad;Elizabeth H. Blackburn

  • A mutant with a defect in telomere elongation leads to senescence in yeast.

    Victoria Lundblad;Jack W. Szostak

  • Cdc13p : A single-strand telomeric DNA-binding protein with a dual role in yeast telomere maintenance

    Constance I. Nugent;Timothy R. Hughes;Neal F. Lue;Victoria Lundblad

  • Senescence Mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae With a Defect in Telomere Replication Identify Three Additional EST Genes

    Thomas S. Lendvay;Danna K. Morris;Jeannie Sah;Bhuvana Balasubramanian

  • Est1 and Cdc13 as comediators of telomerase access.

    Sara K. Evans;Victoria Lundblad

  • The telomerase reverse transcriptase: components and regulation

    Constance I. Nugent;Victoria Lundblad

  • Cdc13 Delivers Separate Complexes to the Telomere for End Protection and Replication

    Erin Pennock;Kathleen Buckley;Victoria Lundblad

  • Telomere maintenance is dependent on activities required for end repair of double-strand breaks

    Constance I. Nugent;Giovanni Bosco;Lyle O. Ross;Sara K. Evans

  • RPA-like proteins mediate yeast telomere function.

    Hua Gao;Hua Gao;Rachel B Cervantes;Edward K Mandell;Edward K Mandell;Joel H Otero

  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae CTF18 and CTF4 Are Required for Sister Chromatid Cohesion

    Joseph S. Hanna;Evgueny S. Kroll;Victoria Lundblad;Forrest A. Spencer

  • Three Ever Shorter Telomere (EST) genes are dispensable for in vitro yeast telomerase activity

    Joachim Lingner;Thomas R. Cech;Timothy R. Hughes;Victoria Lundblad

  • Cdc13 both positively and negatively regulates telomere replication.

    Abha Chandra;Timothy R. Hughes;Constance I. Nugent;Victoria Lundblad

  • Three Tn10-associated excision events: relationship to transposition and role of direct and inverted repeats.

    Timothy J. Foster;Victoria Lundblad;Susan Hanley-Way;Shirley M. Halling

  • Conserved Structure for Single-Stranded Telomeric DNA Recognition

    Rachel M. Mitton-Fry;Emily M. Anderson;Timothy R. Hughes;Victoria Lundblad

  • The Est3 protein is a subunit of yeast telomerase.

    Timothy R. Hughes;Sara K. Evans;Rodney G. Weilbaecher;Victoria Lundblad

  • Est1 has the properties of a single-stranded telomere end-binding protein.

    V Virta-Pearlman;D K Morris;V Lundblad

  • Telomere maintenance without telomerase.

    Victoria Lundblad

  • Positive and negative regulation of telomerase access to the telomere

    S.K. Evans;V. Lundblad

  • Defects in mismatch repair promote telomerase-independent proliferation

    Aylin Rizki;Victoria Lundblad

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy P. Hughes
Timothy P. Hughes South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
Nancy Kleckner
Nancy Kleckner Harvard University
Joachim Lingner
Joachim Lingner École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn University of California, San Francisco
Thomas R. Cech
Thomas R. Cech University of Colorado Boulder
Timothy J. Foster
Timothy J. Foster Campden BRI (United Kingdom)
Woodring E. Wright
Woodring E. Wright The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Andy F. S. Taylor
Andy F. S. Taylor University of Aberdeen
Gerald R. Smith
Gerald R. Smith Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
James E. Haber
James E. Haber Brandeis University

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