Student Co-Authored Peer Reviewed Publications

Journal Articles

1. Alessandra Luchini, David H. Geho, Barney Bishop, Duy Tran, Cassandra Xia, Robert L. Dufour, Clinton D. Jones, Virginia Espina, Alexis Patanarut, Weidong Zhou, Mark M. Ross, Alessandra Tessitore,, Emanuel F. Petricoin III, and Lance A. Liotta. Smart hydrogel particles: biomarker harvesting: one-step affinity purification, size exclusion, and protection against degradation. Nano Lett. 2008 Jan;8(1):350-61.

2. Virginia Espina, Kirsten H. Edmiston, Michael Heiby, Mariaelena Pierobon, Manuela Sciro, Barbara Merritt, Stacey Banks, Jianghong Deng, Amy J. VanMeter, David H. Geho, Lucia Pastore, Joel Sennesh, Emanuel F. Petricoin III, and Lance A. Liotta. A Portrait of Tissue Phosphoprotein Stability in the Real-world Clinical Tissue Procurement Process. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2008 Oct:7(10): 1998-2018.

3. Caterina Longo, Alexis Patanarut, Tony George, Barney Bishop, Weidong Zhou, Mark M Ross, Virginia Espina, Giovanni Pellacani, Emanuel Petricoin, Lance Liotta, Alessandra Luchini. Core-Shell Hydrogel Particles Harvest, Concentrate and Preserve Labile Low Abundance Biomarkers, PLoS1. 2009 Mar:4(3):1-14.

4. Patanarut A, Luchini A, Botterell PJ, Mohan A, Longo C, Vorster P, Petricoin EF, Liotta LA, Bishop B. Synthesis and characterization of hydrogel particles containing Cibacron Blue F3G-A. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp. 2010 Jun;362(1-3):8-19.

5. Dixon, E., Schweibenz, T., Hight, A., Kang, B., Dailey, A., Kim, S., Chen, M, Kim, Y., Neale, S., Groth, A., Ike, T., Khan, S., Schweibenz, B., Lieu, D., Stone, D., Orellana, T., and Couch, R.D. Bacteria-Induced Static Batch Fungal Fermentation of the Diterpenoid Cyathin A3, a Small Molecule Inducer of Nerve Growth Factor. J. Ind. Microbiol. and Biotech. August 2010.

6. Temple Douglas, Davide Tamburro, Claudia Fredolini, Benjamin Espina, Benjamin S. Lepene, Leopold Ilag, Virginia Espina, Emanuel F. Petricoin III, Lance A. Liotta, Alessandra Luchini. The use of hydrogel microparticles to sequester and concentrate bacterial antigens in a urine test for Lyme disease. Biomaterials (2010).

7. Manes NP, Dong L, Zhou W, Du X, Reghu N, Kool AC, Choi D, Bailey CL, Petricoin EF 3rd, Liotta LA, Popov SG. Discovery of mouse spleen signaling responses to anthrax using label-free quantitative phosphoproteomics via mass spectrometry. Mol. Cell Proteomics 2011 Mar;10(3):M110.000927.

8. Dixon E, Clubb C, Pittman S, Ammann L, Rasheed Z, Kazmi N, Keshavarzian A, Gillevet P, Rangwala H, Couch RD. Solid-Phase Microextraction and the Human Fecal VOC Metabolome. PLOS1 (2011) Apr: 6(4):e18471.

9. Tamburro D, Fredolini C, Espina V, Douglas TA, Ranganathan A, Ilag L, Zhou W, Russo P, Espina BH, Muto G, Petricoin EF, Liotta LA, Luchini A. Multifunctional Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Discovery of Previously Invisible Biomarkers [Internet]. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2011 Nov.

Projects Presented at Scientific Conferences

1. Amy J. VanMeter, Isela Gallagher, Valerie S. Calvert, Jianghong Deng, Michele Signore, Julia D. Wulfkuhle, Vineela Ayyagari, Christopher W. Walker, Mariaelena Pierobon, Virginia Espina, Emanuel F. Petricoin III, and Lance A. Liotta. Protein signal pathway mapping: Screening potential drug targets for Multiple Myeloma. The American Association of Cancer Research Conference, San Diego CA, April 2008.

2. Alessandra Tessitore, Mark Ross, Weidong Zhou, Virginia Espina, Nishant Trivedi, Lance A. Liotta, and Emanuel F. Petricoin III. Isolation and Identification of Candidate Peptidomic Biomarker Proteins for Prostate Cancer Detection. HUPO Conference, Bethesda, MD, March 2008.

3. Julia D. Wulfkuhle, Rosa Gallagher, Aybike Birerdinc, Michael Estep, Jianghong Deng, Ami Patel, Barbara Merritt, Lucia Pastore, Anna Baranova, Emanuel F. Petricoin III, Lance A. Liotta and Kirsten Edmiston. Proteomic and Genomic Analysis of DCIS and the Tumor Microenvironment: Implications for Early Programming of the Invasive Phenotype. The American Association of Cancer Research Conference, San Diego CA, April 2008.

4. Silvestri, A. Colombatti, V.S. Calvert, J. Deng, A. Schoonmaker, E. Mammano, C. Belluco, F. De Marchi, D. Nitti, L.A. Liotta, E.F. Petricoin and M. Pierobon. "Pathway Profiling of Laser Capture Microdissected Primary Colorectal Cancer: Development of Prognostic Fingerprint Based on Functional Signal Transduction Biomarker." Joint Metastasis Research Society-AACR Special Conference on Metastasis, August 3-7 2008, Vancouver, Canada.

5. Nathan P. Manes, Li Dong, Weidong Zhou, Nikitha Reghu, Arjan C. Kool, Charles Bailey, Emanuel F. Petricoin III, Lance A. Liotta, Serguei G. Popov. Discovery of Anthrax Biomarkers Using Label-Free Quantitative Phosphoproteomics and LC-LTQ-Orbitrap-MS(/MS). 57th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference, June 4, 2009, Philadelphia, PA.

6. Virginia Espina, Claudius Mueller, Alex Reeder, Annalise Schoonmaker, Stacey Banks, Lucia Pastore, Kirsten Edmiston, Emanuel F. Petricoin, III, and Lance A. Liotta. Stabilization Chemistry for Universal Application to Protein, RNA, DNA and Morphology Preservation. 10th Principal Investigators Meeting for the IMAT (Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies) Program, Oct. 7-9, 2009, Bethesda, MD.

7. Paul D. Cooper, Christine J. Franzel, John F. Cooper. Thermochemical Constraints of the Old Faithful Model for Radiation-Driven Cryovolcanism on Enceladus. The American Astronomical Society Division of Planetary Science (DPS) Conference, Oct 3-8, 2010, Pasadena,CA.

8. Eswar Prasad R. Iyer, Srividya Chandramouli Iyer, Ramakrishna Meduri, Dennis Wang, and Daniel N. Cox. Functional genomic analyses reveal complex transcriptional regulatory networks mediating dendritic architecture. Virginia Academy of Science Annual Meeting, May 2011.
Richmond, VA.
* Abstract Received J. Shelton Horsley Research Award    

9. Alex Chen and Jason Kinser. Multi-Domain Data Modeling for Biometrics. Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Annual Workshop, October 11-13, 2011, Washington D.C.
 

Book Chapter

1. Amy J. VanMeter, Serena Camerini, Maria Letizia Polci, Alessandra Tessitore, Nishant Trivedi, Michael Heiby, Yasmin Kamal, Jonathan Hansen, Virginia Espina, Emanuel Petricoin III, Lance A. Liotta, and Weidong Zhou. Low Molecular Weight Protein Fractionation for Biomarker Discovery. Methods in Molecular Biology. 2008 submitted.

Patents

1. Temple Douglas, Lance A. Liotta, Claudia Fredolini, Davide Tamburro, Alessandra Luchini. Improved Lyme Disease Diagnostic Testing Using Hydrogel Bait Containing Nanoparticles, Filed Nov 2009.