School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences Faculty Publications
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Submissions from 2021
Weeds as Hosts of Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical Agriculture Systems, Habraham F. Lopez, Pushpa Soti, Ganpati B. Jagdale, Parwinder Grewal, and Alexis Racelis
Effects of Scarification, Phytohormones, Soil Type, and Warming on the Germination and/or Seedling Performance of Three Tamaulipan Thornscrub Forest Species, Paula Luera, Kimberly Wahl-Villarreal, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Abeny Treviño, Pushpa Soti, and Christopher A. Gabler
Calibration chain transformation improves the comparability of organic hydrogen and oxygen stable isotope data, Sarah Magozzi, Clement P. Bataille, Keith A. Hobson, Michael B. Wunder, John D. Howa, Andrea Contina, Hannah B. Vander Zanden, and Gabriel J. Bowen
Heterocycles in the Treatment of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Kush K. Maheshwari and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Assessing climate change impacts on live fuel moisture and wildfire risk using a hydrodynamic vegetation model, Wu Ma, Lu Zhai, Alexandria Pivovaroff, Jacquelyn Shuman, Polly Buotte, Junyan Ding, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Ryan G. Knox, Max Moritz, and Rosie A. Fisher
A Method for Repeated, Longitudinal Sampling of Individual Aedes aegypti for Transmission Potential of Arboviruses, E. Handly Mayton, Heather Hernandez, Christopher Vitek, and Rebecca C. Christofferson
Species-specific responses to restoration interventions in a Tamaulipan thornforest, Faeqa Mohsin, Mylen A. Arias, Clifton Albrecht, Kimberly Wahl-Villarreal, Alejandro Fierro-Cabo, and Bradley O. Christoffersen
Biotic homogenization or riparian refugia? Urban and wild land snail assemblages along a subtropical precipitation gradient, Kathryn E. Perez, Briante S. Lewis Najev, Bradley O. Christoffersen, and Jeffrey C. Nekola
A fresh start in ambersnail (Gastropoda: Succineidae) taxonomy: finding a foothold using a widespread species of Oxyloma, Kathryn E. Perez, Marco A. Martinez Cruz, Brent W. Steury, and Gary M. Barker
Hydraulic architecture explains species moisture dependency but not mortality rates across a tropical rainfall gradient, Alexandria L. Pivovaroff, Brett T. Wolfe, Nate G. McDowell, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Stuart J. Davies, L. Turin Dickman, Charlotte Grossiord, Riley T. Leff, Alistair Rogers, and Shawn P. Serbin
Infectious Disease Transmission by Arline Travel, Daniele Provenzano and Sofy Barocio
A Sugarcane G-Protein-Coupled Receptor, ShGPCR1, Confers Tolerance to Multiple Abiotic Stresses, Manikandan Ramasamy, Mona B. Damaj, Carol Vargas-Bautista, Victoria Mora, Jiaxing Liu, Carmen S. Padilla, Sonia Irigoyen, Tripti Saini, Nirakar Sahoo, Jorge A. DaSilva, and Kranthi K. Mandadi
Understanding water and energy fluxes in the Amazonia: Lessons from an observation-model intercomparison, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Loren P. Albert, Marcos Longo, Ian Baker, Naomi M. Levine, Lina M. Mercado, Alessandro C. da Araujo, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Marcos H. Costa, and David R. Fitzjarrald
Tropical milkweed herbivore and predator dynamics in suburban South Texas, Daniela Rivera, Jose Adrian Noval, Lilly Elliott, and Hannah J. Penn
Editorial: Discovery and Development of Drugs for Neglected Diseases: Chagas Disease, Human African Trypanosomiasis, and Leishmaniasis, Gildardo Rivera, Navin B. Patel, and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Benzopyrazine-Based Small Molecule Inhibitors As Trypanocidal and Leishmanicidal Agents: Green Synthesis, In Vitro, and In Silico Evaluations, Jonathan Rock, Daniel Garcia, Omar Espino, Shaila A. Shetu, Manuel J. Chan-Bacab, Rosa Moo-Puc, Navin B. Patel, Gildardo Rivera, and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Fabrication of Forcespinning® nanofibers incorporating nopal extract, Cristobal Rodriguez, Victoria Padilla, Karen Lozano, J. Andrew McDonald, Luis Materon, Alejandra Chapa, Fariha Ahmad, Carlos Trevino De Leon, and Robert Gilkerson
Temperatures Influence Susceptibility to Insecticides in Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) Mosquitoes, Wendy S. Salinas, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, and Christopher Vitek
Science identity and Hispanic students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), Sharon Schembri and Joanne Rampersad-Ammons
The Multifunctional Roles of Polyphenols in Plant-Herbivore Interactions, Sukhman Singh, Ishveen Kaur, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Rare earth free bright and persistent white light emitting zinc gallo-germanate nanosheets: technological advancement to fibers with enhanced quantum efficiency, Bhupendra B. Srivastava, Santosh K. Gupta, Raul Barbosa, Alexa Villarreal, Karen Lozano, and Yuanbing Mao
Cr3+ assisted energy transfer for Mn2+ doped zinc gallogermanate with narrow and bright green emission, Bhupendra B. Srivastava, Santosh K. Gupta, Swati Mohan, Allen Abraham, Adrian Portales, and Yuanbing Mao
Molten-Salt-Assisted Annealing for Making Colloidal ZnGa2O4:Cr Nanocrystals with High Persistent Luminescence, Bhupendra B. Srivastava, Santosh K. Gupta, Swati Mohan, and Yuanbing Mao
Effects of Patch Size, Fragmentation, and Invasive Species on Plant and Lepidoptera Communities in Southern Texas, James A. Stilley and Christopher A. Gabler
Examining the Role of Buzzing Time and Acoustics on Pollen Extraction of Solanum elaeagnifolium, Mandeep Tayal and Rupesh R. Kariyat
PI3K Pathway Inhibition with NVP-BEZ235 Hinders Glycolytic Metabolism in Glioblastoma Multiforme Cells, Shreya Udawant, Carl Litif, Alma Lopez, Bonnie Gunn, Erin Schuenzel, and Megan Keniry
Importation and Preliminary Evaluation of the Stem Boring Moth Buakea kaeuae as a Potential Biological Control Agent of Invasive Guineagrass, Megathyrsus maximus, Ann T. Vacek, John A. Goolsby, Paul-Andre Calatayud, Bruno Le Ru, Boaz Musyoka, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Effect of Lanthanum Doping on the reactivity of unsupported CoMoS2 catalysts, Carolina Valdes, Diego Gonzalez, Kenneth Flores, Thomas Eubanks, John Valle, Agnelia Tiffany Hernandez, Carlos Hernandez, Jorge Lopez, Mataz Alcoutlabi, and Jason Parsons
NVP-BEZ235 or JAKi Treatment leads to decreased survival of examined GBM and BBC cells, Neftali Vazquez, Alma Lopez, Victoria Cuello, Michael W. Persans, Erin Schuenzel, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, and Megan Keniry
An ecotoxicological approach to microplastics on terrestrial and aquatic organisms: A systematic review in assessment, monitoring and biological impact, Omar A. Vazquez and Saydur Rahman
Walking Velocity and Estimated Distance of the Armored Scale Crawler Rhizaspidiotus donacis, a Biological Control Agent for Arundo donax, Joshua A. Villarreal, Alexis Racelis, and John A. Goolsby
Morphological characterization of trichomes shows enormous variation in shape, density and dimensions across the leaves of 14 Solanum species, Sakshi Watts and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Picking sides: feeding on the abaxial leaf surface is costly for caterpillars, Sakshi Watts and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Desktop scanning electron microscopy in plant-insect interactions research: A fast and effective way to capture electron micrographs with minimal sample preparation, Sakshi Watts, Ishveen Kaur, Sukhman Singh, Bianca Jimenez, Jesus Chavana, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Zinc-chelating postsynaptic density-95 N-terminus impairs its palmitoyl modification, Yonghong Zhang, Xiaoqian Fang, Luis Acosta, Libo Li, Lili Guerra, Audrey Vega, Amanda Salinas, Andrea Gonzalez, Claudia Garza, Andrew Tsin, Johannes W. Hell, and James B. Ames
Chemical shift assignments of the N-terminal domain of PSD95 (PSD95-NT), Yonghong Zhang, Johannes W. Hell, and James B. Ames
Submissions from 2020
Synthesis and fabrication of self-sustainable triboelectric energy case for powering smart electronic devices, Abu Masa Abdullah, Alejandro Flores, Aminur Rashid Chowdhury, Jianzhi Li, Yuanbing Mao, and M. Jasim Uddin
Tailoring the viscosity of water and ethylene glycol based TiO2 nanofluids, Abu Musa Abdullah, Aminur Rashid Chowdhury, Yingchen Yang, Horacio Vasquez, Justin Moore, Jason Parsons, Karen Lozano, Jose J. Gutierrez, Karen S. Martirosyan, and Mohammed Uddin
Defect-induced optical and electrochemical properties of Pr2Sn2O7 nanoparticles enhanced by Bi3+ doping, Allen Abraham, Santosh K. Gupta, Swati Mohan, Hisham Abdou, and Yuanbing Mao
Expanding the Known Ranges of the Phreatic Snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Cochliopidae) of Texas, USA, Dominique Alvear, Peter H. Diaz, J. Randy Gibson, Benjamin T. Hutchins, Benjamin Schwartz, and Kathryn E. Perez
Electrospun ZnO/poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) scaffolds for lung tissue engineering, Bahareh Azimi, Mohammad Sajad Sorayani Bafqi, Alessandra Fusco, Claudio Ricci, Giuseppe Gallone, Roohollah Bagherzadeh, Giovanna Donnarumma, M. Jasim Uddin, Masoud Latifi, Andrea Lazzeri, and Serena Danti
Electrospinning piezoelectric fibers for biocompatible devices, Bahareh Azimi, Mario Milazzo, Andrea Lazzeri, Stefano Berrettini, M. Jasim Uddin, Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler, and Serena Danti
Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Characterization and Identification of Inhibitory Compounds, Samantha Balboa, Yanmei Hu, Frank B. Dean, and James M. Bullard
Versatile Bismuth Salts-induced Reactions From Our Laboratory: A Perspective, Debasish Bandyopadhyay and Bimal Krishna Banik
Spatial and Temporal Trends in Diet for Pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides) from Turtle Grass (Thalassia testudinum) Beds with Contrasting Environmental Regimes in the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas, Maximiliano Barbosa and Christopher M. Taylor
Using the rDNA Internal Transcribed Spacer 1 to Identify the Invasive Pest Rhagoletis cerasi (Diptera: Tephritidae) in North America, Norman B. Barr, Daniel Garza, Lisa A. Ledezma, and David A. Salinas
TD-DFT spin-adiabats with analytic nonadiabatic derivative couplings, Nicole Bellonzi, Ethan Alguire, Shervin Fatehi, Yihan Shao, and Joseph E. Subotnik
TD-DFT spin-adiabats with analytic nonadiabatic derivative couplings, Nicole Bellonzi, Ethan Alguire, Shervin Fatehi, Yihan Shao, and Joseph E. Subotnik
Conservation status of the recently described Ecuadorian Amazon parrot Amazona lilacina, Rebecca Biddle, Ivette Solis Ponce, Paul Cun, Simon Tollington, Martin Jones, Stuart Marsden, Christian Devenish, Eric Horstman, Karl S. Berg, and Mark Pilgrim
Effects of Urbanization on Buff-bellied Hummingbirds in Subtropical South Texas Subtropical South Texas, John S. Brush, Timothy Brush, and Alexis Racelis
All-Carbon Conductors for Electronic and Electrical Wiring Applications, Federico Cesano, M. Jasim Uddin, Karen Lozano, Marco Zanetti, and Domenica Scarano
Editorial: Carbon- and Inorganic-Based Nanostructures for Energy Applications, Federico Cesano, M. Jasim Uddin, Yuanbing Mao, and Muhammad N. Huda
Decentralized triboelectric electronic health monitoring flexible microdevice, Aminur Rashid Chowdhury, Abu Masa Abdullah, Ulises Vidaurri Romero, Istiak Hussain, Carolina Olivares, Serena Danti, Jianzhi Li, and Mohammed Jasim Uddin
The photon absorber and interconnecting layers in multijunction organic solar cell, Brishty Deb Chowdhury, Bernabe Ibarra, Federico Cesano, Yuanbing Mao, Muhammad N. Huda, Aminur Rashid Chowdhury, Carolina Olivares, and M. Jasim Uddin
Impact of intracellular hemin on N-type inactivation of voltage-gated K+ channels, Ina Coburger, Kefan Yang, Alisa Bernert, Eric Wiesel, Nirakar Sahoo, Sandip M. Swain, Toshinori Hoshi, Roland Schönherr, and Stefan H. Heinemann
Comment on “A global-scale ecological niche model to predict SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection rate”, author Coro, Andrea Contina, Scott W. Yanco, Allison K. Pierce, Michelle DePrenger-Levin, Michael B. Wunder, Andreas M. Neophytou, C. Phoebe Lostroh, Richard J. Telford, Blas M. Benito, and Joseph Chipperfield
Review of Major Crop and Animal Arthropod Pests of South Texas, Holly N. Davis, John A. Goolsby, Donald B. Thomas, Ismael Badillo, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Christopher Vitek, and Danielle Sekula
Biological Flora of the Tropical and Subtropical Intertidal Zone: Literature Review for Rhizophora mangle L., Hudson R. DeYoe, Robert I. Lonard, Frank W. Judd, Richard Stalter, and Ilka Feller
Mesohabitat Associations Of The Devil Tryonia, Tryonia Diaboli (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea: Cochliopidae), Peter H. Diaz, Dominique Alvear, and Kathryn E. Perez
Prehistoric and historical insights in avian zooarchaeology, taphonomy and ancient bird use, Frank J. Dirrigl Jr., Timothy Brush, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, and László Bartosiewicz
Bone chemical composition changes in bird bones from laboratory exposure to saline lake conditions, Frank J. Dirrigl Jr., Hanna Jung, Robert Otken, and Jason Parsons
Glutaminyl-tRNA Synthetase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Characterization, structure, and development as a screening platform, Yaritza Escamilla, Casey A. Hughes, Jan Abendroth, David M. Dranow, Samantha Balboa, Frank B. Dean, and James M. Bullard
¿Cómo nos une el nopal a los hispanos que vivimos en el Valle del Río Grande de Texas?, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo
A tale of two cities: Aedes Mosquito surveillance across the Texas-Mexico Border, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Consuelo Aguilar, Cuauhtémoc Quintero Vazquez, Rene Santos-Luna, Susana Roman-Perez, Tamer Oraby, Gustavo Sanchez Tejeda, Fabian Correa Morales, Víctor M. Salazar Bueyes, and Pascual Camacho Guevara
Tobacco Hornworm (Manduca sexta) Oral Secretion Elicits Reactive Oxygen Species in Isolated Tomato Protoplasts, Akanksha Gandhi, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Cruz Chappa, Mandeep Tayal, and Nirakar Sahoo
Potential Effects of Climate Change on the Geographic Distribution of the Endangered Plant Species Manihot walkerae, Gisel Garza, Armida Rivera, Crystian Sadel Venegas Barrera, Jose Guadalupe Martinez-Avalos, Jon Dale, and Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo
No evidence of non-target use of native or economic grasses and broadleaf plants by Arundo donax biological control agents, John A. Goolsby, Christopher R. Hathcock, Ann T. Vacek, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Patrick J. Moran, and Maricela Martinez Jimenez
On comparison of luminescence properties of La2Zr2O7 and La2Hf2O7 nanoparticles, Santosh K. Gupta, Maya Abdou, Partha Sarathi Ghosh, Jose P. Zuniga, Ezhilarasan Manoharan, HyeongJun Kim, and Yuanbing Mao
Li+ co-doping induced phase transition as an efficient strategy to enhance upconversion of La2Zr2O7:Er,Yb nanoparticles, Santosh K. Gupta, Maya Abdou, Jose P. Zuniga, Partha Sarathi Ghosh, and Yuanbing Mao
pH induced size tuning of Gd2Hf2O7:Eu3+ nanoparticles and its effect on their UV and X-ray excited luminescence, Santosh K. Gupta, Mitzy A. Penilla Garcia, Jose P. Zuniga, and Yuanbing Mao
Optical properties of undoped, Eu 3+ doped and Li + co-doped Y 2 Hf 2 O 7 nanoparticles and polymer nanocomposite films, Santosh K. Gupta, Jose P. Zuniga, Maya Abdou, P. S. Ghosh, and Yuanbing Mao
Lanthanide-doped lanthanum hafnate nanoparticles as multicolor phosphors for warm white lighting and scintillators, Santosh K. Gupta, Jose P. Zuniga, Maya Abdou, Melonie P. Thomas, Manisha De Alwis Goonatilleke, Beth S. Guiton, and Yuanbing Mao
Two Forms of Tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Characterization and Discovery of Inhibitory Compounds, Casey Anne Hughes, Varesh Gorabi, Yaritza Escamilla, Frank B. Dean, and James M. Bullard
Electromagnetic-triboelectric-hybrid energy tile for biomechanical green energy harvesting, Elaijah Islam, Abu Musa Abdullah, Aminur Rashid Chowdhury, Farzana Tasnim, Madelyne Martinez, Carolina Olivares, Karen Lozano, and Mohammed Uddin
Toxin transcripts in Crotalus atrox venom and in silico structures of toxins, Ying Jia, Ivan Lopez, and Paulina Kowalski
The efficient synthesis of d-xylulose and formal synthesis of Syringolide 1, Sudhakar Kalagara, Gabriel Orozco, and Shizue Mito
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) influences growth and insect community dynamics in Sorghum-sudangrass (Sorghum x drummondii), Jasleen Kaur, Jesus Chavana, Pushpa Soti, Alexis Racelis, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Role of Trichomes in Plant Stress Biology, Jasleen Kaur and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) at Barro Colorado Island, Panama, Charles D. Koven, Ryan G. Knox, Rosie A. Fisher, Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Stuart J. Davies, and Matteo Detto
Questing by Tick Larvae (Acari: Ixodidae): A Review of the Influences That Affect Off-Host Survival, Brenda Leal, Emily Zamora, Austin Fuentes, Donald B. Thomas, and Robert K. Dearth
Terrestrial snail communities of the lower rio grande valley are affected by human disturbance and correlate with vegetation community composition, Briante S. Lewis Najev, Alison Schofield, Raziel I. Flores, Benjamin T. Hutchins, J. Andrew McDonald, and Kathryn E. Perez
1H, 13C and 15N resonance assignments of translation initiation factor 3 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Libo Li, Stephanie O. Palmer, Elizabeth A. Gomez, Frank Mendiola, Tianzhi Wang, James M. Bullard, and Yonghong Zhang
LRRC8 family proteins within lysosomes regulate cellular osmoregulation and enhance cell survival to multiple physiological stresses, Ping Li, Meiqin Hu, Ce Wang, Xinghua Feng, ZhuangZhuang Zhao, Ying Yang, Nirakar Sahoo, Mingxue Gu, Yexin Yang, and Shiyu Xiao
The Role of α, γ, and Metastable Polymorphs on Electrospun Polyamide 6/Functionalized Graphene Oxide, Javier Macossay-Torres, Yazmin I. Avila-Vega, Faheem A. Sheikh, Travis Cantu, Francisco E. Longoria-Rodriguez, Edgar H. Ramirez-Soria, Rigoberto C. Advincula, and Jose Bonilla-Cruz
Effect of hydrothermal temperature treatment on the variance of fluorescence in Ca2SiO4:Tb3þ, Rajaboopathi Mani and Santosh K. Gupta
The PI3K pathway impacts stem gene expression in a set of glioblastoma cell lines, Eduardo Martinez, Neftali Vazquez, Alma Lopez, Victor Fanniel, Lilia Sanchez, Rebecca Marks, Leetoria Hinojosa, Victoria Cuello, Marisa Cuevas, Andrea Salinas, Erin Schuenzel, Michael W. Persans, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, and Megan Keniry
Impact of Cover Crops on Insect Community Dynamics in Organic Farming, Lili Martinez, Pushpa Soti, Jasleen Kaur, Alexis Racelis, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Molten Salt Synthesized Submicron Perovskite La1–xSrxCoO3 Particles as Efficient Electrocatalyst for Water Electrolysis, Swati Mohan and Yuanbing Mao
Neuroactive nectar: compounds in nectar that interact with neurons, Julie A. Mustard
Honeybees fail to discriminate floral scents in a complex learning task after consuming a neonicotinoid pesticide, Julie A. Mustard, Annie Gott, Jennifer Scott, Nancy L. Chavarria, and Geraldine A. Wright
GABA signaling affects motor function in the honey bee, Julie A. Mustard, Lisa Jones, and Geraldine A. Wright
Detection of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations, Ali Naini, Robert Gilkerson, Sara Shanske, and Jiuhong Pang
Effects of molten-salt processing parameters on the structural and optical properties of preformed La2Zr2O7:Eu3+ nanoparticles, Mitzy A. Penilla Garcia, Santosh K. Gupta, and Yuanbing Mao
Poorly Vetted Conservation Ranks Can Be More Wrong Than Right: Lessons from Texas Land Snails, Kathryn E. Perez, Benjamin T. Hutchins, and Jeffrey C. Nekola
Host plant defense produces species-specific alterations to flight muscle protein structure and flight-related fitness traits of two armyworms, Scott L. Portman, Gary W. Felton, Rupesh R. Kariyat, and James H. Marden
Advancements of Nanotechnology in Diagnostic Applications, Zahid Rafiq, Pankaj Patel, Santosh Kumar, Hasham S. Sofi, Javier Macossay-Torres, and Faheem A. Sheikh
Polycaprolactone-Based Nanofibers and their In-Vitro and In-Vivo Applications in Bone Tissue Engineering, Rumaisa Rashid, Hasham S. Sofi, Javier Macossay-Torres, and Faheem A. Sheikh
CRISPR Cas9 Genome Editing in Human Cell Lines with DONOR Vector Made by Gibson Assembly, Nirakar Sahoo, Victoria Cuello, Shreya Udawant, Carl Litif, Julie A. Mustard, and Megan Keniry
Structure–Activity Relationship of RGD-Containing Cyclic Octapeptide and αvβ3 Integrin Allows for Rapid Identification of a New Peptide Antagonist, Aaron Silva, Wenwu Xiao, Yan Wang, Wei Wang, Heng Wei Chang, James B. Ames, Kit S. Lam, and Yonghong Zhang
The pantropical response of soil moisture to El Niño, Kurt C. Solander, Brent D. Newman, Alessandro Carloca de Araujo, Holly R. Barnard, Z. Carter Berry, Damien Bonal, Mario Bretfeld, Benoit Burban, Luiz Antonio Candido, Rolando Celleri, Jeffery Q. Chambers, and Bradley O. Christoffersen
