Optical profilometers, such as scanning white light interferometers and confocal microscopes, provide high resolution measurements and are widely utilized in many fields [...]

Bacterial glycans and glycoconjugates have wide diversity compared to their eukaryotic counterparts. While methods have been developed to monitor and track glycans in euk[...]

Capsular Polysaccharide A (CPSA) is a polymer of a tetrasaccharide unit found on the surface of the symbiotic gut bacteria Bacteroides fragilis. It has been suggested tha[...]

Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) allows for the imaging of translucent or transparent biological specimens without the need for exogenous contrast agents. This techniq[...]

The accurate recovery and detection of microbes from water samples is important for the protection of public health. However, not all microbes behave similarly, not all [...]

The unseen world of microbes has a profound affect on everyday life. Complex microbial communities play a role in everything from climate regulation to human health and [...]

There is little consensus in the literature as to which approach for classification of Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) sequences is most accurate unlike 16S classifiers that h[...]

Plasmodium vivax malaria is a neglected tropical disease, despite being more geographically widespread than any other form of malaria. P. vivax was previously thought to [...]

What is the nature of a complex organism? Metagenomic research and its insights into biosystem function have fundamentally altered the answer to this question. High-thr[...]

The main result of this dissertation concerns the asymptotics, uniform in t and x, of the probability distribution of a random walk with heavy tails. The random walk is a[...]