Projects

Our lab attempts a wide range of projects. Some of the projects have lead to a research publication.

 

Seo H-J, Riedel TE. A Novel Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Primer Set for Detecting the STY2879 Gene of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi in Raw Milk. Microorganisms. 2026; 14(2):297. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms14020297

Pham VT, Harris-Ryden Z, Kodali N, Hamner TF, Popalzai S, Castañeda Hernandez M, Ajose M, Owens M, Riedel TE, Reichler S. Filter, heat, spin: A simple and inexpensive method for DNA preparation from freshwater for use in high-throughput molecular source tracking. PLOS Water 2025 4(8): e0000293. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000293

Sudarshan A., Rillera MG, Tran N, Riedel TE, Ellington AD, Bhadra S. Fieldable isothermal nucleic acid test for rapid semi-quantitative visual readout of Enterococci in recreational waters. bioRxiv 2025.04.20; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.20.649722

Chatterjee A, Parthasarathy S, Riedel TE. Adapting a LAMP Plasmodium vivax Malaria Diagnostic for Use in Low Resource Settings. medRxiv 2025.04.14.25325264; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.14.25325264

Halphen Jr J, Wright NA, Fisher S, Juarez SJI, Sanchez L, Riedel TE. Developing a User-Friendly Oropharyngeal HPV-16 Point-of-Care Diagnostic: HPV-16 Virus Detection in Oral Rinse Sample Matrix With Colorimetric Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification. medRxiv 2024 May 15; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.15.24307441.

Lakhotia S, Riedel TE. Improved Diagnostic of Spotted Fevers via Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification with One Step Strand Displacement. bioRxiv 2023 Feb. 07; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.07.526334

Kim D, Ganesh A, Riedel TE. Modification of blood-based (IgG) to salivary-based (IgA) ELISA for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Diagnostic: Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha quantification. bioRxiv 2022 Nov. 02; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.02.514587 

Bhadra S, Riedel TE, Lakhotia S, Tran ND, Ellington AD. High-surety isothermal amplification and detection of SARS-CoV-2, including with crude enzymes. mSphere. 2021 May 19;6(3):e00911-20. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00911-20.

Bhadra S, Riedel TE, Saldaña MA, Hegde S, Pederson N, Hughes GL, Ellington AD. Direct nucleic acid analysis of mosquitoes for high fidelity species identification and detection of Wolbachia using a cellphone. PLoS Negl Trop Dis.  2018 Aug 30;12(8):e0006671. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006671.

Jiang YS, Riedel TE, Popoola JA, Morrow BR, Cai S, Ellington AD, Bhadra S. Portable platform for rapid in-field identification of human fecal pollution in water. Water Research. 2018 Mar 15;131:186-195. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2017.12.023. Epub 2017 Dec 13.