Degrees:
Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo School of Med
M.A., SUNY Buffalo School of Med
B.S., Lemoyne College
Professor Foster's interest in understanding how bacteria, relatively “simple” organisms, are able to wreak such havoc in the human host was sparked while an undergraduate at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY. Once in graduate school at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, she fully dedicated herself to the study of infectious diseases. Upon completion of her doctorate, she received a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health for her research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. While working at Washington University, Foster took an opportunity to teach an undergraduate laboratory course; an experience which solidified her career goals. "I want to share my passion for understanding how bacteria interact with human hosts with my students. I have been able to accomplish this goal at Trinity College through a research program that fully involves undergraduate students and in my classroom." In the lab, Foster fully involves her students in her research. They work side by side at the bench and together design experiments, interpret data, and present their work to the larger scientific community. Many of Foster's students have pursued graduate or medical school after graduating from Trinity. |
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Microbiology
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Cell biology
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Biology of infectious diseases
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Bacterial pathogenesis
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Microbes and society
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How bacteria are able to cause disease in the respiratory tract of mammalian hosts
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The role played by the normal flora that colonize the upper respiratory tract
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Generating a database that will contain a catalog of bacteria colonizing the upper respiratory tract (by using the polymerase chain reaction to amplify specific regions of the 16s rRNA gene)
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Correlations between colonization with certain organisms and other syndromes such as asthma, allergy or susceptibility to pathogenic, infectious agents
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The relationship of Mycobacteria tuberculosis with the human host
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The role of specific anti-fungal compounds in the inhibition of M. tuberculosis growth
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- Foster, Lisa-Anne Agiato. "Utilization and cell-surface binding of hemin by Histoplasma capsulatum." Canadian Journal of Microbiology 48 (2002): 437-442.
- Guardiola-Diaz, H.M., L-A. Foster, D. Mushrush*, and A.Vaz. "Azole-Antifungal binding to a novel cytochrome P450 from M. tuberculosis; implications for treatment of tuberculosis." Biochem. Pharm. 61 (2001): 1463-1470.
- Foster, L-A, and Kari Ann Sweeney*. "Regulation of Heme Biosynthesis in Bordetella bronchiseptica. Abstract B-405. Abstracts of the 103rd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC, 2003.
- Foster, L-A., and E.L. Veysey*. "Cloning and characterization of the hemA gene from Bordetella bronchiseptica." Abstract B-311. Abstracts of the 100th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC, 2000.
* represents Trinity College students co-author
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- Arthur H. Hughes Award for Teaching Achievement, 2004
- Co-Principal Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute Award to Trinity College
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