School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations
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Submissions from 2020
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
Chemical Modification and In Silico Validation of Medicinally Privileged Molecular Scaffolds as Kras and SARS-CoV-2 Protease Inhibitors, Precious M. Okwuchukwu
Thermal and Spectroscopic Investigations on Polymer-Based Nanofibers, Omosola Oriretan
Exploring Pyrochlore Host for Upconversion and Downconversion Luminescence Materials, Mitzy A. Penilla Garcia
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
Elucidating the Binding Pockect of the GPR119 Receptor, a Type 2 Diabetes Target, Matthew Dy Rosales
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
Agricultural and Environmental Weeds of South Texas and their Management, Pushpa Soti, John A. Goolsby, and Alexis Racelis
Cover crops for weed suppression in organic vegetable systems in semiarid subtropical Texas, Pushpa G. Soti and Alexis Racelis
Soil biotic and abiotic conditions negate invasive species performance in native habitat, Pushpa Soti, Matthew Purcell, and Krish Jayachandran
Efficiency of using electric toothbrush as an alternative to a tuning fork for artificial buzz pollination is independent of instrument buzzing frequency, Mandeep Tayal, Jesus Chavana, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Cascading effects of polyphenol-rich purple corn pericarp extract on pupal, adult, and offspring of tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta L.), Mandeep Tayal, Pavel Somavat, Isabella Rodriguez, Leilani Martinez, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Polyphenol-Rich Purple Corn Pericarp Extract Adversely Impacts Herbivore Growth and Development, Mandeep Tayal, Pavel Somavat, Isabella Rodriguez, Tina Thomas, Bradley O. Christoffersen, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Surface Structure and Phase Composition of TiO2 P25 Particles After Thermal Treatments and HF Etching, M. Jasim Uddin, Federico Cesano, Aminur Rashid Chowdhury, Tarek Trad, Sara Cravanzola, Gianmario Martra, Lorenzo Mino, Adriano Zecchina, and Domenica Scarano
Development and testing of artificial membranes for rearing of Rhipicephalus microplus, the Southern Cattle Fever Tick, Ann T. Vacek, John A. Goolsby, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Positional cloning and characterization of the papaya diminutive mutant reveal a truncating mutation in the CpMMS19 gene, Ying Wang, Ratnesh Singh, Eric Tong, Min Tang, Liwei Zheng, Hongkun Fang, Ruoyu Li, Lin Guo, Jinjin Song, and Jorge A. Trujillo
Mastering high ion conducting of room-temperature all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries via safe phthaloyl starch-poly(vinylidene fluoride)–based polymer electrolyte, Ming Xie, Libo Li, Yonghong Zhang, Jintian Du, You Li, Yuhang Shan, and Huanyu Zheng
Small-molecule activation of lysosomal TRP channels ameliorates Duchenne muscular dystrophy in mouse models, Lu Yu, Xiaoli Zhang, Yexin Yang, Dan Li, Kaiyuan Tang, Zifan Zhao, Wanwan He, Ce Wang, and Nirakar Sahoo
Survival of off-host unfed Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) annulatus (Acari: Ixodidae) larvae in study arenas in relation to climatic factors and habitats in South Texas, USA, Emily J. Zamora, Brenda Leal, Donald B. Thomas, and Robert K. Dearth
Graphite Intercalation Compounds Derived by Green Chemistry as Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts, Jianchao Zhao, Joseph H. Dumont, Ulises Martinez, Javier Macossay-Torres, Kateryna Artyushkova, Plamen Atanassov, and Gautam Gupta
Submissions from 2019
Insight into the effect of A-site cations on structural and optical properties of RE2Hf2O7:U nanoparticles, Maya Abdou, Santosh K. Gupta, Jose P. Zuniga, and Yuanbing Mao
Growth Factors in the Human Body: A Conceptual Update, Estefania Alexandre and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Hydraulic traits explain differential responses of Amazonian forests to the 2015 El Niño-induced drought, Fernanda de V. Barros, Paulo R. L. Bittencourt, Mauro Brum, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Luciano Pereira, Grazielle S. S. Teodoro, Scott R. Saleska, Laura S. Borma, Bradley O. Christoffersen, and Deliane Penha
Phylogenetic and kinematic constraints on avian flight signals, Karl S. Berg, Soraya Delgado, Astolfo Mata, John C. Wingfield, and Steven R. Beissinger
Ontogeny of the adrenocortical response in an extremely altricial bird, Karl S. Berg, Soraya Delgado, Astolfo Mata-Betancourt, Jesse S. Krause, John C. Wingfield, and Steven R. Beissinger
Photocatalytic Degradation of Simazine under Visible Light Using Zinc Oxide/Molybdenum Disulfide Heterostructures, Alexandria Castillo
Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials for Piezoelectric/Triboelectric Nanogenerator, Aminur Rashid Chowdhury
Genetic structure of the Painted Bunting and its implications for conservation of migratory populations, Andrea Contina, Jose L. Alcantara, Eli S. Bridge, Jeremy D. Ross, William F. Oakley, Jeffrey F. Kelly, and Kristen Ruegg
Characterization of SNP markers for the painted bunting (Passerina ciris) and their relevance in population differentiation and genome evolution studies, Andrea Contina, Rachael A. Bay, Vinh Le Underwood, Thomas B. Smith, Jeffrey F. Kelly, Eli S. Bridge, and Kristen Ruegg
Bait Stations for Control of Mexican Fruit Flies (Anastrepha ludens), First Year, Hugh E. Conway, Guadalupe Garcia, Pedro Rendón, and Christopher J. Vitek
Culturing embryonic cells from the parthenogenetic clonal marble crayfish Marmorkrebs Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017 (Decapoda: Astacidea: Cambaridae), Heriberto DeLeon III, Juan Garcia Jr., Dionn Carlo Silva, Oscar Quintanilla, Zen Faulkes, and John M. Thomas III
The teacher writing toolkit: enhancing undergraduate teaching of scientific writing in the biological sciences, Frank J. Dirrigl and Mark Noe
Individual-Based Modeling of Amazon Forests Suggests That Climate Controls Productivity While Traits Control Demography, Sophie Fauset, Manuel Gloor, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, Oliver L. Phillips, Gregory P. Asner, Timothy R. Baker, Lisa Patrick Bentley, Roel J. W. Brienen, Bradley O. Christoffersen, and John del Aguila-Pasquel
The Convolvulaceae family in the municipality of Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Estefania Guadalupe Fernandez-Puga, Arturo Mora-Olivo, J. Andrew McDonald, and Edilia De La Rosa-Manzano
Phytochemical investigation of Magnolia grandiflora green seed cones: Analytical and phytoceutical studies, Bo Garza, Alondra Echeverria, Felipe Gonzalez, Orlando Castillo, Thomas Eubanks, and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
A new species of stygobitic snail in the genus Antrorbis Hershler & Thompson, 1990 (Gastropoda, Cochliopidae) from the Appalachian Valley and Ridge of eastern Tennessee, USA, Nichlas S. Gladstone, Kathryn E. Perez, Evelyn B. Pieper, Evin T. Carter, K. L. Dooley, Nathaniel F. Shoobs, Annette S. Engel, and Matthew L. Niemiller
Development of a remotely activated field sprayer and evaluation of temperature and aeration on the longevity of Steinernema riobrave entomopathogenic nematodes for treatment of cattle fever tick-infested nilgai, John A. Goolsby, Diana Cantu, Alejandro Vasquez, and Alexis Racelis
Precipitation mediates sap flux sensitivity to evaporative demand in the neotropics, Charlotte Grossiord, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Aura M. Alonso-Rodríguez, Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, Heidi Asbjornsen, Luiza Maria T. Aparecido, Z. Carter Berry, Christopher Baraloto, Damien Bonal, and Isaac Borrego
Thermally Induced Disorder-Order Phase Transition of Gd 2 Hf 2 O 7 :Eu 3+ Nanoparticles and its Implication on Photo-and Radioluminescence, Santosh K. Gupta, Maya Abdou, Partha Sarathi Ghosh, Jose P. Zuniga, and Yuanbing Mao
Roles of oxygen vacancies and pH induced size changes on photo- and radioluminescence of undoped and Eu3+-doped La2Zr2O7 nanoparticles, Santosh K. Gupta, Maya Abdou, Jose P. Zuniga, Partha Sarathi Ghosh, Enrique Molina, Ben Xu, Mircea Chipara, and Yuanbing Mao
Samarium-Activated La2Hf2O7 Nanoparticles as Multifunctional Phosphors, Santosh K. Gupta, Maya Abdou, Jose P. Zuniga, Alexander A. Puretzky, and Yuanbing Mao
Visible and ultraviolet upconversion and near infrared downconversion luminescence from lanthanide doped La2Zr2O7 nanoparticles, Santosh K. Gupta, Mitzy A. Penilla Garcia, Jose P. Zuniga, Maya Abdou, and Yuanbing Mao
The Development of Screening Platforms to Identify Novel Anti-Infectives that Inhibit Protein Synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Casey Anne Hughes
Rapid Identification of Phospholipase A2 Transcripts from Snake Venoms, Ying Jia, Pablo Olvera, Frida Rangel, Bianca Mendez, and Samir Reddy
Sorghum 3-Deoxyanthocyanidin Flavonoids Confer Resistance against Corn Leaf Aphid, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Iffa Gaffoor, Sampurna Sattar, Cullen W. Dixon, and Nadia Frock
Feeding on glandular and non-glandular leaf trichomes negatively affect growth and development in tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) caterpillars, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Cristina E. Raya, Jesus Chavana, Jason Cantu, and Lekshmi Sasidharan
Abiotic and Biotic Limitations to Nodulation by Leguminous Cover Crops in South Texas, Stephanie Kasper, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Pushpa Soti, and Alexis Racelis
High-resolution melt (HRM) analysis for detection of SNPs associated with pyrethroid resistance in the southern cattle fever tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Acari: Ixodidae), Guilherme M. Klafke, Robert J. Miller, Jason P. Tidwell, Donald B. Thomas, Daniela Sanchez, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, and Adalberto A. Perez de Leon
Modeling the effects of climate change on the distribution of Tagetes lucida Cav. (Asteraceae), Julianna Katherine Schaefer Kurpis, Miguel Angel Serrato-Cruz, and Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo
Novel silica filled deep eutectic solvent based nanofluids for energy transportation, Changhui Liu, Hui Fang, Xinjian Liu, Ben Xu, and Zhonghao Rao
Bayesian inference of hydraulic properties in and around a white fir using a process-based ecohydrologic model, Elias C. Massoud, A. J. Purdy, Bradley O. Christoffersen, L. S. Santiago, and C. Xu
Identification of key parameters controlling demographically structured vegetation dynamics in a land surface model: CLM4.5(FATES), Elias C. Massoud, Chonggang Xu, Rosie A. Fisher, Ryan G. Knox, Anthony P. Walker, Shawn P. Serbin, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Jennifer A. Holm, Lara M. Kueppers, and Daniel M. Ricciuto
α-Actinin Anchors PSD-95 at Postsynaptic Sites, Lucas Matt, Karam Kim, Anne E. Hergarden, Tommaso Patriarchi, Zulfiqar A. Malik, Deborah K. Park, Dhrubajyoti Chowdhury, Olivia R. Buonarati, Peter B. Henderson, and Yonghong Zhang
Modelling water fluxes in plants: from tissues to biosphere, Maurizio Mencuccini, Stefano Manzoni, and Bradley O. Christoffersen
Caveat consumptor notitia museo: Let the museum data user beware, Jeffrey C. Nekola, Benjamin T. Hutchins, Alison Schofield, Briante S. Lewis Najev, and Kathryn E. Perez
Herbivory and inbreeding affect growth, reproduction, and resistance in the rhizomatous offshoots of Solanum carolinense (Solanaceae), Chad T. Nihranz, Rebecca L. Kolstrom, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Mark C. Mescher, Consuelo M. De Moraes, and Andrew G. Stephenson
Biochar Enhances Nitrous Oxide Reduction in Acidic but Not in Near-Neutral pH Soil, Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira, Jerome Lechot, Rafaela Feola Conz, Abmael da Silva Cardoso, and Johan Six
Palladium-Catalyzed Direct α‑C(sp3) Heteroarylation of Ketones under Microwave Irradiation, Andrew Quillen, Quynh Nguyen, Matthew Neiser, Kara Lindsay, Alexander Rosen, Stephen Ramirez, Stefana Costan, Oscar Rodriguez, Diego Rivera, Abdurrahman Atesin, and Tülay A. Ateşin
Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient, Viktoriia Radchuk, Thomas Reed, Céline Teplitsky, Martijn van de Pol, Anne Charmantier, Christopher Hassall, Peter Adamík, Frank Adriaensen, Markus P. Ahola, and Karl S. Berg
Pharmacological Aspects of Resveratrol, Raisa Ramirez and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Studies on Regulation of Dihydrotestosterone Binding to and Releasing from the Androgen Receptor, Tahyra M. Resto Santos
Screening Sticky Cards as a Simple Method for Improving Efficiency of Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae) Monitoring and Reducing Nontarget Organisms, Mamoudou Setamou, Robert R. Saldaña, James M. Hearn, Jon Dale, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, and Darek Czokajlo
Data on foliar nutrient concentration of invasive plants in the recipient habitat and their native habitat, Pushpa Soti, Matthew Purcell, and Krish Jayachandran
NextGen advises "Trying to Manage", Douglass Steinhauff, Joel Henrique Ellwanger, Monika Lewinska, Edmond Sanganyado, Yongsheng Ji, Buddini Iroshika Karawdeniya, Naike Bochatay, Eric Britt Moore, Aminata Coulibaly, Shaima Ibrahim, Déna Skye Jansen, Joshua I. James, David M. Cole, Anna Lipkin, Beth McKinnon Adamowicz, Science Management Associates, Shervin Fatehi, Maria Helena Holmstrom, and Rosa Li
The spatial scale of homogenisation and differentiation in Chihuahuan Desert fish assemblages, Christopher M. Taylor, Seiji Miyazono, Christopher A. Cheek, Robert J. Edwards, and Reynaldo Patiño
Removal of as (III) and as (V) from Potable Water Using ZnO Nanoparticles, Grecia Torreblanca Baez
Investigating the impact of gamma radiation on structural and optical properties of Eu3+ doped rare-earth hafnate pyrochlore nanocrystals, Victoria Trummel, Santosh K. Gupta, Madhab Pokhrel, Donald Wall, and Yuanbing Mao
Incidence of the Brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus and its parasitoid, Ixodiphagus hookeri on dogs in South Texas, Alejandro Vasquez, John A. Goolsby, Ann T. Vacek, Alexis Racelis, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
