Gary D. Foster
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Gary D. Foster is a British phytopathologist.{{Cite web |last=Bristol |first=University of |title=May: New antibiotics and mushrooms {{!}} News and features {{!}} University of Bristol |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2016/may/synthesising-antibiotics-fungus.html |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=www.bristol.ac.uk |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Biology and chemistry combine to generate new antibiotics |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/568929 |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=EurekAlert! |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=The British Mycological Society |url=https://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/ |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=www.britmycolsoc.org.uk |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2017-10-25 |title=Meet the Network Director and Co-Director |url=https://www.connectedvirus.net/meet-the-network-director-and-co-director/ |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=Connected |language=en-GB}}{{Cite book |title=Plant gene isolation: principles and practice |date=1996 |publisher=Wiley |editor=Gary D. Foster |editor2=David Twell |isbn=0-471-95538-8 |location=Chichester |oclc=33864631}}{{Cite book |title=Plant virology protocols: from viral sequence to protein function |date=2008 |publisher=Humana Press |editor=Gary D. Foster |isbn=978-1-59745-102-4 |edition=2nd |location=Totowa, NJ |oclc=262833807}}{{Cite web |title=GD Foster |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-foster-415a8321/?originalSubdomain=uk}}{{Cite web |date=2019-09-23 |title=BSPP2015 – The Impact of Plant Pathogens on Everyday Lives - BSPP - The British Society for Plant Pathology |url=https://www.bspp.org.uk/conferences/bspp2015/ |access-date=2022-05-10 |language=en-GB}}
Education
Gary Foster was educated at Banbridge Academy from 1976-1983. Foster then read microbiology at Queen's University Belfast, graduating in 1986. Four years later, he received a doctorate from the same institution. Foster completed postdoctoral research at the University of Leicester.
Career
In 1996, Foster began teaching at the University of Bristol. Foster founded the journal Molecular Plant Pathology in 2000,{{Cite journal |last=Foster |first=Gary D. |date=2000 |title=Letter from the Editor-in-Chief: Editorial |url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1046/j.1364-3703.2000.00018.x |journal=Molecular Plant Pathology |language=en |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1 |doi=10.1046/j.1364-3703.2000.00018.x|pmid=20572943 |doi-access=free }} serving as chief editor through 2012.{{Cite journal |last=Foster |first=Gary D. |date=2012 |title=Editorial: A swan song: Editorial: A swan song |journal=Molecular Plant Pathology |language=en |volume=13 |issue=9 |pages=985 |doi=10.1111/j.1364-3703.2012.00837.x |pmc=6638796 |pmid=23094865}} Foster was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2011.{{cite news |title=Professor Gary Foster |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/people/gary-d-foster/index.html |access-date=15 December 2018 |publisher=University of Bristol}}
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Category:British phytopathologists
Category:Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
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