Poster presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the feasibility of solar powered water treatment.

Poster presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on tuberculosis (TB) and environmental and individual indicators.

Poster presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on long hours for medical students during residencies.

Poster presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on neuronal primary cilia and the role they play in neuro-degeneration.

Presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on respiratory and cardiovascular responses to oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in internally pipped chicken embryos.

Presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing smoking, secondhand smoke, and quitting.

This paper discusses a research study that uses an education program designed to teach young women about the health effects of smoking, secondhand smoke, and the benefits of quitting.

Presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on links between mercury and liver damage in wild fish populations.

Presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing sex, stress, oxygen deprivation, and gender-specific phenotypes modulate survival in anoxia.

Article on the role of hypoxia in the evolution and development of the cardiovascular system.

Article on environmental and genetic preconditioning for long-term anoxia responses requires AMPK in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Patent relating to methods for extending the freshness of cut flowers, ornamental trees, and plant cuttings.

Article on interpreting genomic data via entropic dissection.

Article on the draft genome sequence of Cupriavidus sp. strain SK-3, a 4-chlorobiphenyl- and 4-clorobenzoic acid-degrading bacterium.

This article utilizes a recursive segmentation and cluster procedure presented as a genome-mining tool, GEMINI, to decipher genomic islands and understand their contributions to the evolution of virulence and antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

This article discusses the fundamental features of why biomass is recalcitrant to conversion without pretreatment.

This article defines character states and describes variation of these putative lymphatic skeletal muscles: the M. cutaneus pectoris, M. cutaneus dorsi, M. piriformis, M. sphincter ani cloacalis, and the complex of the M. gracilis minor/M. abdominal crenator.

This article studies the marketing practices of predatory journals through the analysis of a a subset of the 1,816 e-mails received by a single university biology faculty member during a 24-month period.

This article reports the first draft genome of Pseudomonas monteilii BCN3, a cyanotroph isolated from sewage sludge.

This article proposes that the integration of these signals is mediated through pulses of gene expression that are coordinated through out the plant in a systemic manner by the ROS/Ca⁺² waves.

Article describes study in which fpgs1ccoaomt1 double mutants were generated and functionally characterized in order to test if lignin content can be further reduced by combining genetic mutations in C1 metabolism and the lignin biosynthetic pathway.

This article develops a method, using a single DNA construct that uses CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing to knock-out expression of an endogenous gene of lignin monomer biosynthesis while at the same time expressing a modified version of the gene’s open reading frame that escapes cutting by the Cas9 system and complements the introduced mutation in a tissue-specific manner. This method is applicable to any plant species in which transformation and gene editing are feasible and validated vessel-specific promoters are available.

Article investigating how shell morphology, neck length and self-righting biomechanics scale with body mass during ontogeny in Chelydra serpentina, which uses neck-powered self-righting.

Article showing that knockdown Arabidopsis plants with suppressed expression of the key water-water cycle enzyme, thylakoid-attached copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (KD-SOD), are suppressed in their growth and development. This article provides e genetic evidence for the importance of the water-water cycle in protecting the photosynthetic apparatus of higher plants from photooxidative damage.