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Genomics-enabled sensor platform for rapid detection of viruses related to disease outbreak

Brozik, Susan M.; Polsky, Ronen P.; Campbell, DeAnna M.; Manginell, Ronald P.; Moorman, Matthew W.; Edwards, Thayne L.; Anderson, John M.; Pfeifer, Kent B.; Branch, Darren W.

Bioweapons and emerging infectious diseases pose growing threats to our national security. Both natural disease outbreak and outbreaks due to a bioterrorist attack are a challenge to detect, taking days after the outbreak to identify since most outbreaks are only recognized through reportable diseases by health departments and reports of unusual diseases by clinicians. In recent decades, arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) have emerged as some of the most significant threats to human health. They emerge, often unexpectedly, from cryptic transmission foci causing localized outbreaks that can rapidly spread to multiple continents due to increased human travel and trade. Currently, diagnosis of acute infections requires amplification of viral nucleic acids, which can be costly, highly specific, technically challenging and time consuming. No diagnostic devices suitable for use at the bedside or in an outbreak setting currently exist. The original goals of this project were to 1) develop two highly sensitive and specific diagnostic assays for detecting RNA from a wide range of arboviruses; one based on an electrochemical approach and the other a fluorescent based assay and 2) develop prototype microfluidic diagnostic platforms for preclinical and field testing that utilize the assays developed in goal 1. We generated and characterized suitable primers for West Nile Virus RNA detection. Both optical and electrochemical transduction technologies were developed for DNA-RNA hybridization detection and were implemented in microfluidic diagnostic sensing platforms that were developed in this project.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2013
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Thermally-activated pentanol delivery from precursor poly(p- phenylenevinylene)s for MEMS lubrication

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Johnson, Ross S.; Washburn, Cody M.; Staton, Alan W.; Moorman, Matthew W.; Manginell, Ronald P.; Dugger, Michael T.; Dirk, Shawn M.

The synthesis of two new polyphenylene vinylene (PPV) precursor polymers which can be thermally induced to eliminate pentanol is presented. Pentanol has recently been discovered to be a very useful lubricant in MicroElectroMechanical Systems. The utilization of the elimination reaction of precursor polymers to PPV as a small molecule delivery platform has, to the best of our knowledge, not been previously reported. The elimination reactions were examined using thermal gravimetric analysis, gas chromatography, and UV-Vis spectroscopy. Using PPV precursors allows for (1) a high loading of lubricant (one molecule per monomeric unit), (2) a platform that requires relatively high temperatures (>145 °C) to eliminate the lubricant, and (3) a non-volatile, mechanically and chemically stable by-product of the elimination reaction (PPV). The "on-demand" delivery of a vapor-phase lubricant to MicroElectoMechanical Systems (MEMS) will allow for scheduled or as-needed lubrication of the moving components, improving the performance, reliability, and lifespan of the devices. A delivery system utilizing a newly designed microhotplate along with two new precursor poly(p-phenylene vinylene) polymers that thermally eliminate a pentanol lubricant is described. Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

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TYPE Journal Article YEAR 2012
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Investigation of type-I interferon dysregulation by arenaviruses : a multidisciplinary approach

Branda, Catherine B.; James, Conrad D.; Kozina, Carol L.; Manginell, Ronald P.; Misra, Milind; Moorman, Matthew W.; Negrete, Oscar N.; Ricken, James B.; Wu, Meiye W.

This report provides a detailed overview of the work performed for project number 130781, 'A Systems Biology Approach to Understanding Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Pathogenesis.' We report progress in five key areas: single cell isolation devices and control systems, fluorescent cytokine and transcription factor reporters, on-chip viral infection assays, molecular virology analysis of Arenavirus nucleoprotein structure-function, and development of computational tools to predict virus-host protein interactions. Although a great deal of work remains from that begun here, we have developed several novel single cell analysis tools and knowledge of Arenavirus biology that will facilitate and inform future publications and funding proposals.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2011
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