School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences Faculty Publications
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Submissions from 2016
Removal of Arsenic from water using synthetic Fe7S8 nanoparticles, Jesus Cantu, Louis E. Gonzalez, Jacqueline Goodship, Monica Contreras, Meera Joseph, Cameron Garza, Thomas Eubanks, and Jason Parsons
Engaging Minority Students in Sustainable Bioenergy and Water Quality through an Education and Research Network, Krystel Castillo, Mauricio Cabrera-Rios, Michael W. Persans, and Hudson R. DeYoe
Salinity and geomorphology drive long-term changes to local and regional fish assemblage attributes in the lower Pecos River, Texas, Christopher A. Cheek and Christopher M. Taylor
Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro), Bradley O. Christoffersen, Manuel Gloor, Sophie Fauset, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, David R. Galbraith, Timothy R. Baker, Bart Kruij, Lucy Rowland, Rosie A. Fisher, and Oliver J. Binks
Exploring novel candidate genes from the Mouse Genome Informatics database: Potential implications for avian migration research, Andrea Contina, Eli S. Bridge, and Jeffrey F. Kelly
Modeled Inflow Validation & Nutrient Loading Estimation in Two Subwatersheds of the Lower Laguna Madre, Hudson R. DeYoe, Warren Pulich, and Nelun Fernando
Manganese-Reducing Bacterial Communities from a Hypersaline Estuary in South Texas under Conditions of Changing Salinity, Omar R. Elizondo, Rebecca Vasquez Villarreal, Sonia Y. Del Rio, and Kristine L. Lowe
Translating ecology, physiology, biochemistry and population genetics research to meet the challenge of tick and tick-borne diseases in North America, Maria Dolores Esteve-Gassent, Ivan Castro-Arellano, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Ramiro Patino, Andrew Y. Li, Raul F. Medina, Adalberto A. Pérez de León, and Roger Iván Rodríguez-Vivas
Lack of interaction between ErbB2 and insulin receptor substrate signaling in breast cancer, Sarah M. Farabaugh, Bonita T. Chan, Xiaojiang Cui, Robert Dearth, and Adrian V. Lee
One Health Interactions of Chagas Disease Vectors, Canid Hosts, and Human Residents along the Texas-Mexico Border, Melissa N. Garcia, Sarah O’Day, Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, Rodion Gorchakov, Ramiro Patino, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Susan T. Laing, Joe E. Lopez, Alexandra Ingber, Kathryn M. Jones, and Kristy O. Murray
Impact of the biological control agent Tetramesa romana (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) on Arundo donax (Poaceae: Arundinoideae) along the Rio Grande River in Texas, John A. Goolsby, Patrick J. Moran, Alexis Racelis, Kenneth R. Summy, Maricela Martinez Jimenez, and Ronald D. Lacewell
Solution structure of protein synthesis initiation factor 1 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Yanmei Hu, Alejandra Bernal, James M. Bullard, and Yonghong Zhang
Discovery and analysis of natural-product compounds inhibiting protein synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Yanmei Hu, Megan Keniry, Stephanie O. Palmer, and James M. Bullard
Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models, Michelle O. Johnson, David R. Galbraith, Manuel Gloor, Hannes De Deurwaerder, Matthieu Guimberteau, Anja Rammig, Kirsten Thonicke, Hans Verbeeck, Celso Von Randow, and Bradley O. Christoffersen
Flowering and seed production in the subtropical seagrass, Halodule wrightii (shoal grass), Joseph L. Kowalski and Hudson R. DeYoe
A thermal and electrochemical properties research on gel polymer electrolyte membrane of lithium ion battery, Libo Li, Yue Ma, Wentao Wang, Yanping Xu, Jun You, and Yonghong Zhang
A Review of the North American Halophyte Suaeda linearis (Ell.) Moq., Robert I. Lonard, Frank W. Judd, Richard Stalter, and J. Jed Brown
Ultrasound assisted one-pot synthesis of benzo-fused indole-4, 9-dinones from 1,4-naphthoquinone and α-aminoacetals, Quang H. Luu, Jorge D. Guerra, Cecilio M. Castañeda, Manuel A. Martinez, Jong Saunders, Benjamin A. Garcia, Brenda V. Gonzales, Anushritha R. Aidunuthula, and Shizue Mito
Two complete mitochondrial genomes from Praticolella mexicana Perez, 2011 (Polygyridae) and gene order evolution in Helicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda), Russell L. Minton, Marco A. Martinez Cruz, Mark L. Farman, and Kathryn E. Perez
Fish species incidence patterns in naturally fragmented Chihuahuan Desert streams, Seiji Miyazono and Christopher M. Taylor
Effect of Polymer Concentration Rotational Speed and Solvent Mixture On Fiber Formation Using Forcespinning®, Nancy Obregon, Victor Agubra, Madhab Pokhrel, Howard Campos, David Flores, David De la Garza, Yuanbing Mao, Javier Macossay-Torres, and Mataz Alcoutlabi
Conservación de aves en México, una instantánea de 2015, Raúl Ortiz-Pulido, José L. Alcántara-Carbajal, Horacio de la Cueva, Juan Martínez-Gómez, Patricia Escalante Pliego, Sylvia M. de la Parra-Martínez, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, and Steve Albert
A Review on the Respiratory System Toxicity of Carbon Nanoparticles, Maricica Pacurari, Kristine L. Lowe, Paul B. Tchounwou, and Ramzi Kafoury
Microwave Measurements of the Tropolone-Formic Acid Doubly Hydrogen Bonded Dimer, Aaron M. Pejlovas, Agapito Serrato, Wei Lin, and Stephen G. Kukolich
Plant-based green synthesis of metallic nanoparticles: scientific curiosity or a realistic alternative to chemical synthesis?, Jose R. Peralta-Videa, Yuxiong Huang, Jason Parsons, Lijuan Zhao, Laura Lopez-Moreno, Jose A. Hernandez-Viezcas, and Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey
Genetic Structure of Faucet Snail, Bithynia tentaculata Populations in North America, Based on Microsatellite Markers, Kathryn E. Perez, Rebecca L. Werren, Christopher A. Lynum, Levi A. Hartman, Gabor Majoros, and Rebecca A. Cole
Beyond the Adaptationist Legacy: Updating Our Teaching to Include a Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Rebecca M. Price and Kathryn E. Perez
Effect of exotic invasive old world climbing fern (lygodium microphyllum) on soil properties, Pushpa G. Soti and Krish Jayachandran
Removal of Cu (II) and Pb (II) from Aqueous Solution using engineered Iron Oxide Nanoparticles, Carlos Tamez, Rebecca Hernandez, and Jason Parsons
Self-Aligned Carbon Nanotube Yarns for Multifunctional Optoelectronic Applications, Mohammed Uddin, Glenn Grissom, Miguel Leal, Veronica Galvez, Tarek Trad, Ahmed Touhami, Nazmul Islam, Jason Parsons, and H. Justin Moore
Functional Triboluminescent Nanophase for Use in Advanced Structural Materials: A Smart Premise with Molecular and Electronic Definition, Mohammed Jasim Uddin, David O. Olawale, Jin Yan, Justin Moore, and Okenwa Okoli
Horticultural technique for rearing and redistribution of the sessile biological control agent, Rhizaspidiotus donacis on its host plant, Arundo donax, Joseph M. Villarreal, John A. Goolsby, Ann T. Vacek, Adalberto A. Perez de Leon, and Alexis Racelis
Optimization of RGD containing cyclic peptides against αvβ3 integrin, Yan Wang, Wenwu Xiao, Yonghong Zhang, Leah Meza, Harry Tseng, Yoshikazu Takada, James B. Ames, and Kit S. Lam
Nesting ecology of the northern beardless-tyrannulet (Camptostoma imberbe) in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, USA, Scott M. Werner, Sallie J. Hejl, and Timothy Brush
Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests, Jin Wu, Loren P. Albert, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Matthew Hayek, Kenia T. Wiedemann, Kaiyu Guan, Scott C. Stark, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Neill Prohaska, and Julia V. Tavares
Partitioning controls on Amazon forest photosynthesis between environmental and biotic factors at hourly to interannual timescales, Jin Wu, Kaiyu Guan, Matthew Hayek, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Kenia T. Wiedemann, Xiangtao Xu, Richard Wehr, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Guofang Miao, and Rodrigo Da Silva
3D Sensing Using Solid-State Wire-Shaped Photovoltaic Sensor in TL-Based Structural Health Monitoring, Jin Yan, Mohammed Jasim Uddin, David O. Olawale, Tarik J. Dickens, and Okenwa Okoli
Submissions from 2015
The Use of Polystyrene Beads to Prepare Arrayed Samples of Bacillus thuringiensis for Microscopic Examination, David Ammons and Joanne Rampersad-Ammons
Curcumin: A Folklore Remedy from Kitchen on the Way to Clinic As Cancer Drug, Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks from wildlife hosts, a response to Norris et al., Maria Dolores Esteve-Gassent, Abha Grover, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Ivan Castro-Arellano, Raul F. Medina, Guadalupe Gordillo Pérez, and Adalberto A. Pérez de León
Multiple-Time Step Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Based on Two-Electron Integral Screening, Shervin Fatehi and Ryan P. Steele
Modelling climate impacts on forest ecosystems, David R. Galbraith and Bradley O. Christoffersen
An Acid-Bath Technique to Break Seed Dormancy in Common Sunflower, Helianthus L. annuus (Asteraceae), Yuridia Patricia Gandy, Michael W. Persans, and Kenneth R. Summy
TiO 2 Fibers: Tunable Polymorphic Phase Transformation and Electrochemical Properties, Edna Garcia, Qiang Li, Xing Sun, Karen Lozano, and Yuanbing Mao
Assessing infection patterns in Chinese mystery snails from Wisconsin, USA using field and laboratory approaches, Brittany Harried, Kyle Fischer, Kathryn E. Perez, and Gregory J. Sandland
High throughput screen identifies natural product inhibitor of phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Streptococcus pneumoniae, Yanmei Hu, Stephanie O. Palmer, Hector Munoz, and James M. Bullard
Enantioselective palladium(0)-catalyzed Nazarov-type cyclization, Kei Kitamura, Naoyuki Shimada, Craig Stewart, Abdurrahman Atesin, Tülay A. Ateşin, and Marcus A. Tius
Internal dynamics in the molecular complex of CF3CN and H2O, Wei Lin, Anan Wu, Xin Lu, Xiao Tang, Daniel A. Obenchain, and Stewart E. Novick
Biological Flora of Coastal Dunes and Wetlands: Borrichia frutescens (L.) DC., Robert I. Lonard, Frank W. Judd, and Richard Stalter
A comparative study of polyurethane nanofibers with different patterns and its analogous nanofibers containing MWCNTs, Javier Macossay-Torres, Faheem A. Sheikh, Hassan Ahmad, Hern Kim, and Gary L. Bowlin
Striking Courtship Displays in the Becard Clade Platypsaris, Elliot Miller, Sarah K. Wagner, Juan Klavins, Timothy Brush, and Harold F. Greeney
Long-term changes in seasonal fish assemblage dynamics in an adventitious desert stream, Seiji Miyazono and Christopher M. Taylor
Long-term changes in seasonal fish assemblage dynamics in an adventitious desert stream, Seiji Miyazono and Christopher M. Taylor
Attraction, Repellence, and Predation: Role of Companion Plants in Regulating Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Hemiptera: Aphidae) in Organic Kale Systems of South Texas, Carlos R. Moreno and Alexis Racelis
Microwave Spectra and Structure of the Cyclopropanecarboxylic Acid-Formic Acid Dimer, Aaron M. Pejlovas, Wei Lin, and Stephen G. Kukolich
Long-Range PCR Amplification of DNA by DNA Polymerase III Holoenzyme From Thermus Thermophilus, Wendy Ribble, Shawn D. Kane, and James M. Bullard
Modelling climate change responses in tropical forests: Similar productivity estimates across five models, but different mechanisms and responses, L. Rowland, A. Harper, Bradley O. Christoffersen, D. R. Galbraith, H. M.A. Imbuzeiro, T. L. Powell, C. Doughty, N. M. Levine, Y. Malhi, and S. R. Saleska
After more than a decade of soil moisture deficit, tropical rainforest trees maintain photosynthetic capacity, despite increased leaf respiration, Lucy Rowland, Raquel L. Lobo-do-Vale, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Eliane A. Melém, Bart Kruijt, Steel S. Vasconcelos, Tomas Domingues, Oliver J. Binks, Alex A. R. Oliveira, and Daniel Metcalfe
Imaging, Spectroscopy, Mechanical, Alignment and Biocompatibility Studies of Electrospun Medical Grade Polyurethane (Carbothane™ 3575A) Nanofibers and Composite Nanofibers Containing Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes, Faheem A. Sheikh, Javier Macossay-Torres, Travis Cantu, Xujun Zhang, M. Shamshi Hassan, M. Esther Salinas, Chakavak S. Farhangi, Hassan Ahmad, Hern Kim, and Gary L. Bowlin
Effects of Control Release Fertilizers on Nutrient Leaching, Palm Growth and Production Cost, Pushpa Soti, Angie Fleurissaint, Stewart Reed, and Krish Jayachandran
Palladium-Catalyzed C8-Selective C-H Arylation of Quinoline N-Oxides: Insights into the Electronic, Steric and Solvation Effects on the Site-Selectivity by Mechanistic and DFT Computational Studies, David E. Stephens, Johant Lakey-Beitia, Abdurrahman Atesin, Tülay A. Ateşin, Gabriel Chavez, Hadi D. Arman, and Oleg V. Larionov
The Requisite Electronic Structure Theory To Describe Photoexcited Nonadiabatic Dynamics: Nonadiabatic Derivative Couplings and Diabatic Electronic Couplings, Joseph E. Subotnik, Ethan Alguire, Qi Ou, Brian R. Landry, and Shervin Fatehi
Ca2+/calmodulin regulates Kvβ1.1-mediated inactivation of voltage-gated K+ channels, Sandip M. Swain, Nirakar Sahoo, Sophie Dennhardt, Roland Schönherr, and Stefan H. Heinemann
Submissions from 2014
The Dominance Concept Inventory: A Tool for Assessing Undergraduate Student Alternative Conceptions about Dominance in Mendelian and Population Genetics, Joel K. Abraham, Kathryn E. Perez, and Rebecca M. Price
Analysis of Localized Diabatic States beyond the Condon Approximation for Excitation Energy Transfer Processes, Ethan Alguire, Shervin Fatehi, Yihan Shao, and Joseph E. Subotnik
Farmer to Pharmacist: Curcumin as an Anti-Invasive and Antimetastatic Agent for the Treatment of Cancer, Debasish Bandyopadhyay
An expeditious green route toward 2-aryl-4- phenyl-1H-imidazoles, Debasish Bandyopadhyay, Lauren C. Smith, Daniel R. Garcia, Ram Naresh Yadav, and Bimal K. Banik
Painted Redstarts in South Texas, 2013-2014, Timothy Brush
Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Activation energy Studies of the sorption of chromium(III) and chromium(VI) to a Mn 3 O 4 nanomaterial, Yvette Cantu, Abril Remes, Alejandra Reyna, Denise Martinez, Jahaziel Villarreal, Hilda Ramos, Samantha Trevino, C Tamez, A Martinez, Thomas Eubanks, and Jason Parsons
Conservation genetics of cyprinid fishes in the upper Nueces River basin in central Texas, Evan W. Carson, Ashley H. Hanna, Gary P. Garrett, Robert J. Edwards, and John R. Gold
Mechanisms of water supply and vegetation demand govern the seasonality and magnitude of evapotranspiration in Amazonia and Cerrado, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, M. Altaf Arain, Ian T. Baker, Bruno P. Cestaro, Phillippe Ciais, Joshua B. Fisher, David Galbraith, Xiaodan Guan, and Lindsey Gulden
Communication: Conical Intersections Between Vibrationally Adiabatic Surfaces in Methanol, Mahesh B. Dawadi and David S. Perry
Range extension of the macroalgae Anadyomene stellata (Wulf. In Jacquin) C. Agardh and re-appearance of Caulerpa sertularioides (S. G. Gmel.) M. Howe in the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas, Hudson R. DeYoe and Joseph L. Kowalski
Biodegradable electrospun nanofibers coated with platelet-rich plasma for cell adhesion and proliferation, Luis Diaz-Gomez, Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo, Angel Concheiro, Maite Silva, Fernando Dominguez, Faheem A. Sheikh, Travis Cantu, Raj Desai, Vanessa L. Garcia, and Javier Macossay-Torres
Rapid Environmental Assessment of a Drainage Canal System to Identify Bioreference Sites for Wetland Permitting, Frank J. Dirrigl, Guadalupe Medina Jr., and Robert J. Edwards
The student writing toolkit: Enhancing undergraduate teaching of scientific writing in the biological sciences, Frank J. Dirrigl and Mark Noe
Taphonomic Study of Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica) Bone Modification Resulting from the Burial and Feeding Behavior of the American Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus americanus), Frank J. Dirrigl Jr. and L. Perrotti
Pathogenic landscape of transboundary zoonotic diseases in the Mexico–US border along the Rio Grande, Maria Dolores Esteve-Gassent, Adalberto A. Pérez de León, Dora Romero-Salas, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Ramiro Patino, and John A. Goolsby
Implications of climate change on the distribution of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis and risk for Lyme disease in the Texas-Mexico transboundary region, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Ivan Castro-Arellano, Guadalupe Gordillo Pérez, Ana L. Cavazos, Margarita Vargas-Sandoval, Abha Grover, Javier Torres, Raul F. Medina, Adalberto A. Pérez de León, and Maria Dolores Esteve-Gassent
Study of As(III) and As(V) Oxoanion Adsorption onto Single and Mixed Ferrite and Hausmannite Nanomaterials, Sandra Garcia, Saima Sardar, Stephanie Maldonado, Velia Garcia, C Tamez, and Jason Parsons
Changes in fish populations in the Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande, Gary P. Garrett and Robert Edwards
Projected Future Distributions of Vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi in North America under Climate Change Scenarios, Miroslava Garza, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Edgar A. Casillas, Victor Sanchez-Cordero, Chissa-Louise Rivaldi, and Sahotra Sarkar
Two Roads Converging: Mitochondria and Inflammatory Signaling, Robert Gilkerson and Luis Materon
Establishment and Spread of a Single Parthenogenic Genotype of the Mediterranean Arundo Wasp, Tetramesa romana, in the Variable Climate of Texas, John A. Goolsby, John F. Gaskin, Daniel V. Tarin, Alan E. Pepper, Don C. Henne, Allan Auclair, Alexis Racelis, Kenneth R. Summy, Patrick J. Moran, and Donald B. Thomas
Differential response by bronzed cowbirds to songs of potential hosts in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, Mary J. Janecka and Timothy Brush
Predicting the response of the Amazon rainforest to persistent drought conditions under current and future climates: A major challenge for global land surface models, E. Joetzjer, C. Delire, H. Douville, P. Ciais, B. Decharme, R. Fisher, Bradley O. Christoffersen, J. C. Calvet, A. C.L. Da Costa, and L. V. Ferreira
New Frontiers for the NFIL3 bZIP Transcription Factor in Cancer, Metabolism and Beyond, Megan Keniry, Robert K. Dearth, Michael W. Persans, and Ramon Parsons
Metformin and erlotinib synergize to inhibit basal breast cancer, Ying-Ka Ingar Lau, Xing Du, Vinayak Rayannavar, Benjamin Hopkins, Jacquelyn Shaw, Eliana Bessler, Tiffany Thomas, Maira M. Pires, and Megan Keniry
Imaging, Spectroscopic, Mechanical and Biocompatibility Studies of Electrospun Tecoflex® EG 80A Nanofibers and Composites Thereof Containing Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes, Javier Macossay-Torres, Faheem A. Sheikh, Travis Cantu, Thomas Eubanks, M. Esther Salinas, Chakavak S. Farhangi, Hassan Ahmad, M. Shamshi Hassan, Myung-seob Khil, Shivani K. Maffi, Hern Kim, and Gary L. Bowlin
Analysis of high fat diet induced genes during mammary gland development: identifying role players in poor prognosis of breast cancer, Raquel C. Martinez-Chacin, Megan Keniry, and Robert Dearth
Large-Scale Intersubspecific Recombination in the Plant-Pathogenic Bacterium Xylella fastidiosa Is Associated with the Host Shift to Mulberry, Leonard Nunney, Erin Schuenzel, Mark Scally, Robin E. Bromley, and Richard Stouthamer
Changing precipitation regimes and the water and carbon economies of trees, Rafael S. Oliveira, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Fernanda de V. Barros, Grazielle S. Teodoro, Paulo Bittencourt, Mauro M. Brum-Jr, and Ricardo A.G. Viani
Derivative couplings between TDDFT excited states obtained by direct differentiation in the Tamm-Dancoff approximation, Qi Ou, Shervin Fatehi, Ethan Alguire, Yihan Shao, and Joseph Subotnik
Publisher’s Note: “Derivative couplings between TDDFT excited states obtained by direct differentiation in the Tamm-Dancoff approximation” [J. Chem. Phys. 141, 024114 (2014)], Qi Ou, Shervin Fatehi, Ethan Alguire, Yihan Shao, and Joseph Subotnik
Sorption of Cr(III) and Cr(VI) to High and Low Pressure Synthetic Nano-Magnetite (Fe3O4)Particles, Jason Parsons, Jeffrey Hernandez, Christina M. Gonzalez, and J. L. Gardea-Torresdey
Sorption of Cr(III) and Cr(VI) to High and Low Pressure Synthetic Nano-Magnetite (Fe3O4)Particles, Jason Parsons, Jeffrey Hernandez, Christina M. Gonzalez, and J. L. Gardea-Torresdey
The cytotoxic effect of 2-acylated-1,4-naphthohydroquinones on leukemia/lymphoma cells, Diego A. Pedroza, Fernando De Leon, Armando Varela-Ramirez, Carolina Lerma, Renato J. Aguilera, and Shizue Mito
Relationship between stream velocity & depth and snail size distribution & density of the balcones elimia, elimia comalensis (pilsbry, 1890) (gastropoda: pleuroceridae) in comal springs, texas, Kathryn E. Perez, Russell L. Minton, Scott A. Reese, and David M. Haye
The Genetic Drift Inventory: A Tool for Measuring What Advanced Undergraduates Have Mastered about Genetic Drift, Rebecca M. Price, Tessa C. Andrews, Teresa L. McElhinny, Louise S. Mead, Joel K. Abraham, Anna Thanukos, and Kathryn E. Perez
