School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations
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Submissions from 2021
Increasing Public Health Mosquito Surveillance in Hidalgo County, Texas to Monitor Vector and Arboviral Presence, Clarissa D. Guerrero, Steven Hinojosa, Diana Vanegas, Niko Tapangan, Matthew Guajardo, Sara Alaniz, Narda Cano, Christopher Vitek, John M. Thomas, Valerie Hernandez, and Juan Garcia Jr.
Appearance of new photoluminescence peak and spectral evolution of Eu3+ in La2Zr2O7 nanoparticles at high pressure, Santosh K. Gupta, Hisham Abdou, and Yuanbing Mao
Pressure-induced site swapping, luminescence quenching, and color tunability of Gd2Hf2O7:Eu3+ nanoparticles, Santosh K. Gupta, Hisham Abdou, and Yuanbing Mao
Disorder driven asymmetry and singular red emission in doped Lu2Hf2O7 nanocrystals with no charge compensating defects, Santosh K. Gupta, Mitzy A. Penilla Garcia, Jose P. Zuniga, Bhupendra B. Srivastava, and Yuanbing Mao
Electrospun Polyetherimide and Polybenzimidazole Fibers and Composites, Fatema Ha-Mim Binta Hafiz
Using yeast two-hybrid system and molecular dynamics simulation to detect venom protein-protein interactions, Ying Jia, Paulina Kowalski, and Ivan Lopez
Civic agriculture in review: Then, now, and future directions, Allison Kaika and Alexis Racelis
Inbreeding in Solanum carolinense alters floral attractants and rewards and adversely affects pollinator visitation, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Thomas G. Bentley, Chad T. Nihranz, Andrew G. Stephenson, Consuelo M. De Moraes, and Mark C. Mescher
Exploring the role of soil types on defense and fitness traits of silverleaf nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium), a worldwide invasive species through a field survey in the native range, Stephanie Kasper, Jesus Chavana, Lekshmi Sasidharan, Alexis Racelis, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content, Alexandra G. Konings, Sassan S. Saatchi, Christian Frankenberg, Michael Keller, Victor Leshyk, William R. L. Anderegg, Vincent Humphrey, Ashley M. Matheny, Anna Trugman, and Bradley O. Christoffersen
Type VI secretion system mutations reduced competitive fitness of classical Vibrio cholerae biotype, Benjamin Kostiuk, Francis J. Santoriello, Laura Diaz-Satizabal, Fabiana Bisaro, Kyung-Jo Lee, Anna N. Dhody, Daniele Provenzano, Daniel Unterweger, and Stefan Pukatzki
Automatic Camera Trap Classification Using Wildlife-Specific Deep Learning in Nilgai Management, Matthew Kutugata, Jeremy Baumgardt, John A. Goolsby, and Alexis Racelis
Thermal safety and performances analysis of gel polymer electrolytes synthesized by in situ polymerization for Li-ion battery, Libo Li, Ming Xie, Yonghong Zhang, Yanping Xu, Jia Li, Yuhang Shan, Yangmingyue Zhao, Da Zhou, Xiaochuan Chen, and Wenjun Cui
Machine learning using host/guest energy histograms to predict adsorption in metal–organic frameworks: Application to short alkanes and Xe/Kr mixtures, Zhao Li, Benjamin J. Bucior, Haoyuan Chen, Maciej Haranczyk, J. Ilja Siepmann, and Randall Q. Snurr
Polymer Based Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Cost‐Effective Green Energy Generation and Implementation of Surface‐Charge Engineering, Diana Lopez, Aminur Rashid Chowdhury, Abu Masa Abdullah, Muhtasim Ul Karim Sadaf, Isaac Martinez, Brishty Deb Chowdhury, Serena Danti, Christopher J. Ellison, Karen Lozano, and Mohammed Jasim Uddin
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
Applications of Vanadium Phthalocyanine in Catalytic, Acid-Based Medium to Couple Sugar Molecules, Juan Ricardo Luna
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
Flexible Quantum Dot Solar Cell with Nanostructure Titanium Dioxide Photoanode with Modified Counter Electrode, Haimanti Majumder
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
Electrospun PCL and PCL/Gel Microfiber Scaffolds as Prototypes for Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Regeneration and Repair, Diego Rivera
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
Microwave Spectroscopy of Cyclohexanecarboxylic Acid, Chlorosulfonic Acid, and Its Interaction with Water, Diego Erik Rodriguez
Limits of Variationality in Full Configuration Interaction for the H2 Model System, Oscar Obed Rodriguez Vargas
An Innovative Triboelectric Stent Sensor: Prospective Cardiovascular Health Monitor Device, Ulises Vidaurri Romero
Total Synthesis of E Stereoisomers of Bilirubin Oxidation Products, Tess C. Ruiz
Nd Doped Zinc Oxide Based Flexible PVDF Polymer Composite for Energy Harvesting and Sensory Application, Muhtasim Ul Karim Sadaf
The Impacts and In-Depth Study of the Environmental Contaminant, Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid, and Its Interactions with Water, Karla Veronica Salazar
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
Flexible and Surface Modified ZnSnO3 Nanocubes for Enhanced Piezoelectric Power Generation and Wireless Sensory Application, Sk Md Ali Zaker Shawon
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
A Study of Nanogenerator Based Flow Sensor, Farzana Tasnim
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
Uptake Analysis of As(III) and As(V) by Cassia fistula Seedlings, Valeria Velazquez
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
The DMAP-Catalyzed Acylation of Alcohol -- A Mechanistic Study, Tania Veronica Alvarez Castro
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
The Rotational Spectrum of 1,1-Diiodoethane, Michael Joseph Carrillo
Nonwovens of Ceramic Decorated Cellulose Based Fine Fibers for Leaded Water Purification, Alejandro J. Castillo
Chemical Investigation of Avocado (Persea americana) Seed Husk (Testa): A Waste of Waste, Orlando A. Castillo Scheren
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
Flexible Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: a Study of Photoanode and Counter Electrode Materials, Brishty Deb Choudhury
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
Unbinding of Testosterone from the Androgen Receptor and Two BF-3 Site Mutants, Muniruzzaman Chowdhury
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
Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Meso-Tetraphenyl Metalloporphyrin Photocatalysts under Visible Light, Alexis Echavarria
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
Total Synthesis of Cytotoxic Mansouramycins from Amino Acids, Beatriz Gamez
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
