Search Results - "Wilson, Blake A."
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Signal execution modes emerge in biochemical reaction networks calibrated to experimental data
Published in iScience (21-06-2024)“…Mathematical models of biomolecular networks are commonly used to study cellular processes; however, their usefulness to explain and predict dynamic behaviors…”
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Cardiolipin-Dependent Properties of Model Mitochondrial Membranes from Molecular Simulations
Published in Biophysical journal (06-08-2019)“…Cardiolipin is an anionic lipid found in the mitochondrial membranes of eukaryotes ranging from unicellular microorganisms to metazoans. This unique lipid…”
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Glioblastoma Margin as a Diffusion Barrier Revealed by Photoactivation of Plasmonic Nanovesicles
Published in Nano letters (07-02-2024)“…Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most complex and lethal primary brain cancer. Adequate drug diffusion and penetration are essential for treating GBM, but how the…”
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Nanoparticle Fragmentation below the Melting Point under Single Picosecond Laser Pulse Stimulation
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (09-12-2021)“…Understanding the laser–nanomaterial interactions that lead to nanomaterial fragmentation is important for nanoparticle manufacturing, energy, and biomedical…”
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Mechanobiological modulation of blood-brain barrier permeability by laser stimulation of endothelial-targeted nanoparticles
Published in Nanoscale (16-02-2023)“…The blood-brain barrier (BBB) maintains an optimal environment for brain homeostasis but excludes most therapeutics from entering the brain. Strategies that…”
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Regulating nanoscale directional heat transfer with Janus nanoparticles
Published in Nanoscale advances (11-06-2024)“…Janus nanoparticles (JNPs) with heterogeneous compositions or interfacial properties can exhibit directional heating upon external excitation with optical or…”
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Understanding Neuropeptide Transmission in the Brain by Optical Uncaging and Release
Published in ACS chemical neuroscience (15-02-2023)“…Neuropeptides are abundant and essential signaling molecules in the nervous system involved in modulating neural circuits and behavior. Neuropeptides are…”
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Probing Neuropeptide Volume Transmission In Vivo by Simultaneous Near‐Infrared Light‐Triggered Release and Optical Sensing
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (22-08-2022)“…Neuropeptides are abundant signaling molecules in the central nervous system. Yet remarkably little is known about their spatiotemporal spread and biological…”
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Site-Selective Nucleation and Size Control of Gold Nanoparticle Photothermal Antennae on the Pore Structures of a Virus
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (12-12-2018)“…In this Article, we show that the surface of the bacteriophage Qβ is equipped with natural ligands for the synthesis of small gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). By…”
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Computing free energies using nested sampling-based approaches
Published in Molecular simulation (22-09-2018)“…Nested sampling (NS) has emerged as a powerful statistical mechanical sampling technique to compute the partition function of atomic and molecular systems…”
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Probing Neuropeptide Volume Transmission In Vivo by Simultaneous Near‐Infrared Light‐Triggered Release and Optical Sensing
Published in Angewandte Chemie (22-08-2022)“…Neuropeptides are abundant signaling molecules in the central nervous system. Yet remarkably little is known about their spatiotemporal spread and biological…”
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Development and implementation of atomic/molecular simulation methods based on nested sampling
Published 01-01-2016“…Atomic/molecular simulation continues to grow as a supplement to, and in some cases a replacement for, experimental studies. As such, there is an increasing…”
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Non-native Quantum Generative Optimization with Adversarial Autoencoders
Published 18-07-2024“…Large-scale optimization problems are prevalent in several fields, including engineering, finance, and logistics. However, most optimization problems cannot be…”
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Machine Learning Framework for Quantum Sampling of Highly-Constrained, Continuous Optimization Problems
Published 06-05-2021“…In recent years, there is a growing interest in using quantum computers for solving combinatorial optimization problems. In this work, we developed a generic,…”
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Metasurface design optimization via D-Wave based sampling
Published in 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) (01-05-2021)“…The developed design framework employs the D-Wave to enable global optimization of meta-devices with complex topologies and material composition. The framework…”
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Development and implementation of atomic/molecular simulation methods based on nested sampling
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We must look beyond the Toyota headlines
Published in The Mississippi business journal (22-02-2010)Get full text
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