Nuñez, V; Upadhyayula, S; Lin, A; Chau, K; Vullev, V "Dynamic staining of bacteria at a single-cell level," Proc. SPIE 8018, 80180A 2011; doi:10.1117/12.884186
Upadhyayula, S; Bao, D; Millare, B; Sylvia, S; Habib, K. M. M; Ashraf, M; Ferreira, A; Bishop, S; Bonderer, R; Baqai, S; Jing, X; Penchev, M; Ozkan, M; Ozkan, C; Lake, R; Vullev, V. "Permanent Electric Dipole Moments of Carboxyamides in Condensed Media: What Are the Limitations of Theory and Experiment?,"J. Phys. Chem. B 2011, 115(30), 9473-9490.
Xia, B., Upadhyayula, S., Nunez, V., Landsman, Pavel., Lam, S., Malik, H., Gupta, S., Sarshar, M., Hu, J., Anvari, B., Jones, G., Vullev, V. "Amyloid Histology Stain for Rapid Bacterial Endospore Imaging," Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2011, 49(8), 2966-2975.
Bahmani, B., Gupta, S., Upadhyayula, S., Vullev, V. I., Anvari, B. "Effect of Polyethylene Glycol Coatings on Uptake of Indocyanine Green Loaded Nanocapsules by Human Spleen Macrophages In-Vitro," Journal of Biomedcial Optics2011, 16(5), 051303.
Vullev, V. I. "From Biomimesis to Bioinspiration: What's the Benefit for Solar-Energy-Conversion Applications?" J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2011, 2 (5), 503-508.
Chau, K.; Millare, B.; Lin, A.; Upadhyayula, S.; Nuñez, V.; Xu, H. and Vullev, V. I. "Dependence of the Quality of Adhesion between Poly(dimethylsiloxane) and Glass Surfaces on the Composition of the Oxidizing Plasma," Microfluidics and Nanofluidics2011, 10 (4), 907-917.
Bao, D.; Ramu, S.; Contreras, A.; Upadhyayula, S.; Vasquez, J.M.; Beran, G. and Vullev, V. I. "Electrochemical Reduction of Quinones: Interfacing Experiment and Theory for Defining Effective Radii of Redox Moieties," J. Phys. Chem. B2010, 114, 14467-14479.
Thomas, M. S.; Nunez, V.; Upadhyayula, S.; Zielins, E.; Bao, D.; Vasquez, J.M.; Bahmani, B. and Vullev, V. I. "Kinetics of Bacterial Fluorescence Staining with 3,3'-Diethylthiacyanine," Langmuir2010, 26 (12), 9756-9765.
Thomas, M. S.; Millare, B.; Clift, J. M.; Bao, D.; Hong, C. and Vullev, V. I. "Print-and-Peel Fabrication for Microfluidics: What’s in for Biomedical Applications?,"Ann. Biomed. Eng.2010, 38, 21-32.
Thomas, M. S.; Clift, J. M.; Millare, B.; and Vullev, V. I. "Print-and-Peel Fabricated Passive Micromixers," Langmuir. 2010, 26 (4), 2951-2957.
Lu, H.; Bao, D.; Penchev, M.; Ghazinejab, M.; Vullev, V. I.; Ozkan, C.; Ozkan, M. "Pyridine-Coated Lead Sulfide Quantum Dots for Polymer Hybrid Photovoltaic Devices," Adv. Sci. Lett.2010, 3; 101-109. doi:10.1166/asl.2010.1110
Wan, Jiandi; Thomas, Marlon; Guthrie, Sean; Vullev, Valentine I. "Surface-Bound Proteins with Preserved Functionality,"Ann. Biomed. Eng.2009, 37, 1190–1205.
Hu, Jingqiu; Xia, Bing; Bao, Duoduo; Ferreira, Amy; Wan, Jiandi; Jones, Guilford and Vullev, Valentine I. "Long-Lived Photogenerated States of a-Oligothiophene-Acridinium Dyads Have Triplet Character,"J. Phys. Chem.A2009, 113; 3096–3107.
Bao, Duoduo; Millare, Brent; Xia, Wei; Steyer, Benjamin; Gerasimenko, Alexander; Ferreira, Amy; Contreras, Antonio; Vullev, Valentine "Electrochemical Oxidation of Ferrocene: A Strong Dependence on the Concentration of the Supporting Electrolyte for Nonpolar Solvents",J. Phys. Chem. A2009,113; 1259-1267.
Vasquez, Jacob M; Vu, Andrew; Schultz, Jerome; Vullev, Valentine "Fluorescence Enhancement of Warfarin Induced by Interaction with B-Cyclodextrin",Biotechnology Progress2009, 25(4), 906-914.
Ashraf, M. K.; Millare, Brent; Gerasimenko, Alexander A.; Bao, Duoduo; Pandey, Rajeev R.; Lake, Roger K.; Vullev, Valentine "Theoretical design of bioinspired macromolecular electrets based on anthranilamide derivatives.",Biotechnology Progress2009, 25(5), 915-922.
Millare, Brent; Thomas, Marlon; Ferreira, Amy; Xu, Hong; Holesinger, Madison; Vullev, Valentine "Dependence of the Quality of Adhesion between Poly(dimethylsiloxane) and Glass Surfaces on the Conditions of Treatment with Oxygen Plasma",Langmuir2008,24; 13218-13224.
Wan, J.; Ferreira, A.; Xia, W.; Chow, C. H.; Takechi, K.; Kamat, P. V.; Jones, G. II and Vullev, V. I. "Solvent Dependence of the Charge-Transfer Properties of a Quaterthiophene-Anthraquinone Dyad",J. Photochem. Biotobiol. A: Chemistry 2008, 197, 364-374.
Jones, G., II; Yan, D.; Hu, J.; Wan, J.; Xia, B.; and Vullev, V. I. "Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Arylacridinium Conjugates in a Solid Glass Matrix", J. Phys. Chem., B 2007, 111, 6921-6929.
Vullev, V. I.; Wan, J.; Heinrich, V.; Landsman, P.; Bower, P. E.; Xia, B.; Millare, B. and Jones, G., II "Nonlithographic Fabrication of Microfluidic Devices", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 16062-16072.
Mayers, B. T.; Vezenov, D. V.; Vullev, V. I.; Whitesides, G. M. "Arrays and Cascades of Fluorescent Liquid-Liquid Waveguides: Broadband Light Sources for Spectroscopy in Microchannels", Anal. Chem.2005, 77, 1310-1316.
Vullev, V. I.; Jiang, H.; and Jones II, G. "Excimer Sensing", In Advanced Concepts in Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Part B: Macromolecular Sensing (Topics in Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Vol. 10), Geddes, C. D. and Lakowicz, J. R. Eds.; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.; 2005, P211-240.
Vullev, V. I. "Modulation of Dissociation Kinetics by External Force: Examination of the Bell Model", J. Biol. Sci. 2005, 5, 744-758.
Vullev, V. I.; Jones, G., II "Nanosecond Laser Flash Photolysis: Dealing with Dynamic-Range and Response-Time Limitations of the Detection System", J. Appl. Sci. 2005, 5, 517-526.
Jones, G., II; Zhou, X.; Vullev, V. I. (invited publication) "Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Alpha-Helical Polypeptides: Dependence on Conformation and Electron Donor-Acceptor Distance",Photochem. & Photobiol. Sci. 2003, 2, 1080-1087.
Vullev, V. I.; Jones, G., II "Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Alkanoylpyrene Aggregates in Conjugated Polypeptides", Tet. Lett. 2002, 43, 8611-8615.
Jones, G., II; Vullev, V. I. "Photoinduced Electron Transfer between Non-Native Donor-Acceptor Moieties Incorporated in Synthetic Polypeptide Aggregates", Org. Lett. 2002, 4, 4001-4004.
Jones, G., II; Vullev, V. I. (cover of the issue) "Medium Effects on the Photophysical Properties of Terbium(III) Complexes with Pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylate", Photochem. & Photobiol. Sci. 2002, 1, 925-933.
Jones, G., II; Vullev, V. I. "Medium Effects on the Stability of Terbium(III) Complexes with Pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylate", J. Phys. Chem. A 2002, 106, 8213-8222.
Vullev, V. I.; Jones, J., II (invited review) "Photoinduced Charge Transfer in Helical Polypeptides",Res. Chem. Interm. 2002, 28, 795-815.
Jones, G., II; Vullev, V. I. "Contribution of a Pyrene Fluorescence Probe to the Aggregation Propensity of Polypeptides", Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 2457-2460.
Jones, G., II; Vullev, V. I. "Ground- and Excited-State Aggregation Properties of a Pyrene Derivative in Aqueous Media", J. Phys. Chem. A 2001, 105, 6402-6406.
Jones, G., II; Vullev, V. I.; Braswell, E.; Zhu, D. "Multistep Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a de Novo Helix Bundle. Multimer Self-Assembly of Peptide Chains Including a Chromophore Special Pair",J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 388-389.
Jones, G., II; Lu, L.; Vullev, V. I.; Gosztola, D.; Greenfield, S.; Wasielewski, M. "Photoinduced Electron Transfer for Pyrenesulfonamide Conjugates of Tryptophan-Containing Peptides. Mitigation of Fluoroprobe Behavior in N-Terminal Labeling Experiments", Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 1995, 5, 2385-2390.
In the News
Sept 2011 Srigokul Upadhyayula, PhD Candidate, was awarded Mary & Randolph T Wedding Prize for significant contribution to the peer reviewed scientific literature in biochemistry and molecular biology. Congratulations!
May 2011 Vicente Nunez, a second year PhD student, was awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
May 2011 Ms. Pamela Jreij, an undergraduate researcher in our group was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
April 2011 Brent Millare, former Vullev Group member (currently a 2nd year PhD Student at Johns Hopkins Univeristy), was awarded National Research Service Award (NRSA) from NHLBI. Congratulations!
April 2011 Ms. Wardah Bari, a high-school student working in our lab under the supervision of Ms. Duoduo Bao and Mr. Ali Hadian, won gold on the regional science fair for her research in polymer photophysics.
Congratulations!
March 2011 Our publication presenting a view of the role of biomimesis and bioinspiration in meeting the demands for energy and sustainability, was selected for the cover of the March 3, 2011, issue of JPCL.