Current Research Projects | Biological Engineering

Carrier, Danielle (Julie)

• Microbial Contamination of Feedstock Before and After Hydrolysis-- Wick
• Antimicrobial Effects of Shikimic Acid on Bacterial Foodborne Pathogens--Brown
• Can Understory from Managed Pine Forests be Used as Feedstock in the Biochemical Biorefinery? (co-PI Matthew Pelkki)
• Characterization and Quantification of Monomers, Oligomers and By-Products from Hemicellulose during Pretreatment
• Regulation, Production and Purification of Bioactive Stilbenoids from Hairy Root Cultures of Peanut
• Characterization and Quantification of Monomers, Oligomers and By-Products from Hemicellulose during Pretreatment (co-PIs Greg Thoma, Edgar C. Clausen)
• Can Understory From Managed Pine Forest Be Used As Feedstock In The Biocharacterization & Quantification Of Monomers, Oligomers & By-Products
• From Field To Table: The Science Behind Plants As Food And Fuel
• Biobased Products and Bioenergy Multi-University Graduate Program
• P3 Center Collaborative Seed Grants/Regulation, Production & Purification
• MidSouth/Southeast BioEnergy Consortium
• Producing PHB in Shake Flasks

Costello, Thomas

• AgrAbility Arkansas State Project: Integrated Resource Management Tool to Mitigate the Carbon Footprint of....

Haggard, Brian

• Identifying and Evaluating Best Practices for the Adaptive Management of Water Resources
• Water Quality Monitoring in the Upper Illinois River Watershed and Upper White River Basin (co-PI Marty Matlock)
• Water Quality Monitoring for Selected Priority Watersheds in Arkansas, Upper Saline, Poteau and Strawberry Rivers (co-PIs Andrew Sharpley, Marty Matlock)
• Potential use of Chitosan to Sequester Water Extractable Phosphorus, Ammonium and Trace Elements from Poultry Litter (Bailey)
• Database Analysis to Support Nutrient Criteria Development (co-PIs Thad Scott, Michelle Allayne Evans-White)
• Arkansas Water Resources Center Information Transfer Program
• Program Administration/Management Description
• Phosphorus Release from Bottom Sediments at Lake Wister, Oklahoma (co-PI Thad Scott)
• Scale Dependent Phosphorus Leaching in Alluvial Floodplains (co-PI Andrew Sharpley)
• Sager Creek Monitoring and Quality Assurance Project Plan
• Watershed Investigative Support to the Beaver Water District (co-PI Thad Scott)
• Water Quality Trends across Select 319 Monitoring Sites in Northwest Arkansas
• Water Quality Monitoring and Constituent Load Estimation at the Kings River near Berryville, Arkansas
• Investigation of Natural and Human Land Use Factors Contributing to the Impaired State of the West Fork of the White River in Arkansas-- Cotton
• Program administration/management description
• Monitoring Water Resources of the Gulf Mountain Wildlife Management to Evaluate Possible Effects of Natural Gas Development Activities (co-PI Michelle Allayne Evans-White)
• Assessing Physical,Chemical, & Biological Efffects Before, After,& During
• Red River Nutrient Criteria Development Phase I

Kim, Jin-Woo

• Point Source Ozonation to Minimize Antibiotic Resistance (co-PI Mary Savin)
• Eager-Dev of a Flagellar Motor Biosensor Prototype for Trace Level TNT D
• REU SITE: Applied Biotechnology in Life Science

Li, Yanbin

• Development of Aptamer-ssDNA Intelligent Hydrogel Materials for Magnetoelastic Detection of Avian Influenza
• Magnetic Nanoparticle Microfluidics for Highly Efficient Capture, Separation and Concentration of Foodborne Pathogens
• Development of quantum dots and magnetic nanoparticles-based optical....
• Nanowire Switch and Nanoelectrode/nanochannel Based Imped Bioscensor...

Matlock, Marty

• A Life Cycle Analysis of the Water Footprint for U.S. Pork Production.
• Beyong Carbon: Life Cycle Assessment of the Retail Supply Chain: Dairy Pro
• Biobased Products and Bioenergy Multi-University Graduate Program
• Black Bear Creek Watershed Management Plan
• Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission Analysis
• Integrated Resource Management Tool to Mitigate the Carbon Footprint of..
• Inventory, Review & Dev of REU Modules for the Ethical Conduct of Research
• Life Cycle Assessment Of Retail Supply Chain: Dairy Products
• MidSouth/Southeast BioEnergy Consortium
• Pawnee Nation Causal Analysis Investigation System Development
• REU Site: Assessment and Sustainable Management of Ecosystem Services (co-PIs Kim G. Smith, Jennie Popp)
• REU Site: Assessment and Sustainable Management of Ecosystem Services (co-PIs Michelle Allayne Evans-White, Ralph K. Davis)
• REU Site: Assessment and Sustainable Management of Ecosystem Services
• Water Quality Monitoring For Select Watersheds In Arkansas Upper Saline
• Water Quality Monitoring In The Upper Illinois River Watershed & Upper W
• Water Use In Global Corn Production - Phase 2: Index Development,

Sadaka, Samy

• Development of Agroforest Systems for Bioenergy Crop Production and ....
• MidSouth/Southeast BioEnergy Consortium

Saraswat, Dharmendra

• DOE AGRI Grant, Year 2

Biomedical Engineering

Jin, Sha

• Generate Glucose-Responsive Insulin-Producing Cells From Human Embryonic Stem Cells in 3D (co-PI Kaiming Ye)
• Synergetic Regulation Of Signal Molecules For The Enhancement Of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation Into Pancreatic Lineage
• Generation of Pancreatic beta-Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells/Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (Rutledge)
• Functional Role of Wnt Signaling and Cytoskeletal Proteins for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion in Defined Medium

Ye, Kaiming

• NSF IPA Assignment
• Generate Glucose-Responsive, Insulin-Producing Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells in 3D Cultures (co-PI, Sha Jin)
• Graduate Research Supplement: General Glucose-Responsive, Insulin-Producing Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells in 3D Cultures (co-PI, Sha Jin)
• HA Surface Presented Yeast Flu Vaccine and Its Enhancement by CD 154 Codisplay (co-PI, Sha Jin)
• Screening of 3-D Scaffolds for Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells into Mature Beta Cells
• Glucose Detection
• Generating Blood Stem Cells from Human Pluripotent
• Surface Presented Yeast Flu Vaccine & Its Enhancement By CD154 CODISP

Zaharoff, David

• Chitosan-based Delivery and Immunopotentiation of Cancer Vaccines
• Biological Validation of Self-Assembled Multimodal Nanotheranostics (co-PI Jin-Woo Kim)
• Pilot Investigation of Neoadjuvant Chitosan/IL-12 Immunotherapy Prior to Resection
• Control of Metastasis Through Chitosan/Interleukin- 12-Based Immunotherapy (Vo)
• Purchase of a Lumina XR in vivo imaging system