Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Navarro, D. A., Depner, S. W., Watson, D. F., Aga, D. S. and Banerjee, S. Partitioning behavior and stabilization of hydrophobically coated HfO₂, ZrO₂ and Hf_xZr_{1 - x}O₂ nanoparticles with natural organic matter reveal differences dependent on crystal structure. Journal of Hazardous Materials, (2011). 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.09.028
2. Bowman, S. M., Drzewiecki, K. E., Mojica, E.-R. E., Zielinski, A. M., Siegel, A., Aga, D. S. and Berry, J. O. Toxicity and Reductions in Intracellular Calcium Levels Following Uptake of a Tetracycline Antibiotic in Arabidopsis. Environmental Science & Technology, (2011). 10.1021/es200863j
3. Khunjar, W. O., Mackintosh, S. A., Skotnicka-Pitak, J., Baik, S., Aga, D. S. and Love, N. G. Elucidating the Relative Roles of Ammonia Oxidizing and Heterotrophic Bacteria during the Biotransformation of 17α-Ethinylestradiol and Trimethoprim. Environmental Science & Technology, (2011), 45, 3605-3612. 10.1021/es1037035
4. Navarro, D. A., Banerjee, S., Watson, D. F. and Aga, D. S. Differences in soil mobility and degradability between water-dispersible CdSe and CdSe/ZnS quantum dots. Environmental Science & Technology, (2011), 45, 6343-6349. 10.1021/es201010f
5. Akaighe, N., MacCuspie, R. I., Navarro, D. A., Aga, D. S., Banerjee, S., Sohn, M. and Sharma, V. K. Humic Acid-Induced Silver Nanoparticle Formation Under Environmentally Relevant Conditions. Environmental Science & Technology, (2011), 45, 3895-3901. 10.1021/es103946g
6. Celiz, M. D., Colon, L. A., Watson, D. F. and Aga, D. S. Study on the Effects of Humic and Fulvic Acids on Quantum Dot Nanoparticles Using Capillary Electrophoresis with Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection. Environmental Science & Technology, (2011), 45, 2917-2924. 10.1021/es1031097
7. Clabeaux, B. L., Navarro, D. A. G., Aga, D. S. and Bisson, M. A. Cd Tolerance and Accumulation in the Aquatic Macrophyte, Chara australis: Potential Use for Charophytes in Phytoremediation. Environmental Science & Technology, (2011), 45, 5332-5338. 10.1021/es200720u
8. Mojica, E.-R. E., Autschbach, J., Bright, F. V. and Aga, D. S. Synthesis and evaluation of tetracycline imprinted xerogels: Comparison of experiment and computational modeling. Analytica Chimica Acta, (2011), 684, 72-80. 10.1016/j.aca.2010.11.005
9. Mojica, E.-R. E., Autschbach, J., Bright, F. V. and Aga, D. S. Tetracycline speciation during molecular imprinting in xerogels results in class-selective binding. Analyst, (2011), 136, 749-755. 10.1039/c0an00707b
10. Stewart, D. T. R., Celiz, M. D., Vicente, G., Colón, L. A. and Aga, D. S. Potential use of capillary zone electrophoresis in size characterization of quantum dots for environmental studies. Trends in Analytical Chemistry, (2011), 30, 113-122. 10.1016/j.trac.2010.10.005
11. Tso, J. and Aga, D. S. Wrong-Way-Round Ionization of Sulfonamides and Tetracyclines Enables Simultaneous Analysis with Free and Conjugated Estrogens by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry, (2011), 83, 269-277. 10.1021/ac102391k
12. Tso, J., Dutta, S., Inamdar, S. and Aga, D. S. Simultaneous Analysis of Free and Conjugated Estrogens, Sulfonamides, and Tetracyclines in Runoff Water and Soils Using Solid-Phase Extraction and Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, (2011), 59, 2213-2222. 10.1021/jf104355x
13. Yi, T., Mackintosh, S., Aga, D. S. and Harper Jr, W. F. Exploring 17[alpha]-ethinylestradiol removal, mineralization, and bioincorporation in engineered bioreactors. Water Research, (2011), 45, 1369-1377. 10.1016/j.watres.2010.10.022
14. Aldarondo-Torres, J. X., Samara, F., Mansilla-Rivera, I., Aga, D. S. and Rodreguez-Sierra, C. J. Trace metals, PAHs, and PCBs in sediments from the Jobos Bay area in Puerto Rico. Marine Pollution Bulletin, (2010), 60, 1350-1358. 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.06.006
15. Dutta, S., Inamdar, S., Tso, J., Aga, D. S. and Sims, J. T. Free and conjugated estrogen exports in surface-runoff from poultry litter-amended soil. Journal of Environmental Quality, (2010), 39, 1688-1698. 10.2134/jeq2009.0339
16. Lupton, S. J., McGarrigle, B. P., Olson, J. R., Wood, T. D. and Aga, D. S. Analysis of hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ether metabolites by liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization tandem mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, (2010), 24, 2227-2235. 10.1002/rcm.4631
17. Navarro, D. A., Banerjee, S., Aga, D. S. and Watson, D. F. Partitioning of hydrophobic CdSe quantum dots into aqueous dispersions of humic substances: influence of capping-group functionality on the phase-transfer mechanism. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, (2010), 348, 119-128. 10.1016/j.jcis.2010.04.021
18. Pérez-Fuentetaja, A., Lupton, S., Clapsadl, M., Samara, F., Gatto, L., Biniakewitz, R. and Aga, D. S. PCB and PBDE levels in wild common carp (Cyprinus carpio) from eastern Lake Erie. Chemosphere, (2010), 81, 541-547. 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.06.033
19. Tso, J. and Aga, D. S. A systematic investigation to optimize simultaneous extraction and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry analysis of estrogens and their conjugated metabolites in milk. Journal of Chromatography A, (2010), 1217, 4784-4795. 10.1016/j.chroma.2010.05.024
20. Skotnicka-Pitak, J., Khunjar, W. O., Love, N. G. and Aga, D. S. Characterization of Metabolites Formed During the Biotransformation of 17 alpha-Ethinylestradiol by Nitrosomonas europaea in Batch and Continuous Flow Bioreactors. Environmental Science & Technology, (2009), 43, 3549-3555. 10.1021/Es8026659
21. Navarro, D. A. G., Watson, D. F., Aga, D. S. and Banerjee, S. Natural Organic Matter-Mediated Phase Transfer of Quantum Dots in the Aquatic Environment. Environmental Science & Technology, (2009), 43, 677-682. 10.1021/Es8017623
22. Lupton, S. J., McGarrigle, B. P., Olson, J. R., Wood, T. D. and Aga, D. S. Human Liver Microsome-Mediated Metabolism of Brominated Diphenyl Ethers 47, 99, and 153 and Identification of Their Major Metabolites. Chemical Research in Toxicology, (2009), 22, 1802-1809. 10.1021/Tx900215u
23. Farkas, M. H., Mojica, E. R. E., Patel, M., Aga, D. S. and Berry, J. O. Development of a rapid biolistic assay to determine changes in relative levels of intracellular calcium in leaves following tetracycline uptake by pinto bean plants. Analyst, (2009), 134, 1594-1600. 10.1039/B902147g
24. Celiz, M. D., Tso, J. and Aga, D. S. Pharmaceutical Metabolites in the Environment: Analytical Challenges and Ecological Risks. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, (2009), 28, 2473-2484. 10.1897/09-173.1
25. Celiz, M.D., Pérez, S., Barcelo, D. and Aga, D.S. (2009). Trace analysis of polar pharmaceuticals in wastewater by lc-ms-ms: Comparison of membrane bioreactor and activated sludge systems. Journal of Chromatographic Science, 47(1), 19-25.
26. Celiz, M. D., Aga, D. S. and Colon, L. A. Evaluation of a molecularly imprinted polymer for the isolation/enrichment of beta-estradiol. Microchemical Journal, (2009), 92, 174-179. 10.1016/J.Microc.2009.03.007
27. Mojica, E. E., Kim, S. and Aga, D. S. Formation of N-ethylmaleimide (NEM)-glutathione conjugate and N-ethylmaleamic acid revealed by mass spectral characterization of intracellular aextracellular microbial metabolites of NEM. Applied Environmental Microbiology, (2008), 74, 323-326. 10.1128/AEM.01407-07
28. Skotnicka-Pitak, J., Garcia, E. M., Pitak, M. and Aga, D. S. Identification of the transformation products of 17 alpha-ethinylestradiol and 17 beta-estradiol by mass spectrometry and other instrumental techniques. Trends in Analytical Chemistry, (2008), 27, 1036-1052. 10.1016/J.Trac.2008.10.003
29. Peak, N., Knapp, C. W., Yang, R. K., Hanfelt, M. M., Smith, M. S., Aga, D. S. and Graham, D. W. Abundance of six tetracycline resistance genes in wastewater lagoons at cattle feedlots with different antibiotic use strategies. Environmental Microbiology, (2007), 9, 143-151. 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01123.x
30. Pérez, S., McJury, B. E., Eichhorn, P. and Aga, D. S. Determination of the antimicrobial growth promoter moenomycin-A in chicken litter. Journal of Chromatography-A, (2007), 1175, 234-241. 10.1016/j.chroma.2007.10.053
31. Pérez, S., Farkas, M., Barceló, D. and Aga, D. S. Characterization of glutathione conjugates of chloroacetanilide pesticides using ultra-performance liquid chromatoghraphy/quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry and liquid chromatoghraphy/ion trap mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, (2007), 21, 4017-4022. 10.1002/rcm.3308
32. O'Connor, S., Locke, J. and Aga, D. S. Addressing the challenges of tetracycline analysis in soil: extraction, clean-up, and matrix effects in LC-MS. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, (2007), 9, 1254-1262. 10.1039/b711731k
33. O'Connor, S. and Aga, D. S. Analysis of tetracycline antibiotics in soil: Advances in extraction, clean-up, and quantification. Trends in Analytical Chemistry, (2007), 26, 456-465. 10.1016/J.Trac.2007.02.007
34. Kim, S., Jensen, J. N., Aga, D. S. and Weber, A. S. Fate of tetracycline resistant bacteria as a function of activated sludge process organic loading and growth rate. Water Science & Technology, (2007), 55, 291-297. 10.2166/wst.2007.010
35. Kim, S., Jensen, J. N., Aga, D. S. and Weber, A. S. Effect of Sequencing Batch Reactor Operation on Presence and Concentration of Tetracycline-Resistant Organisms Water Environment Research, (2007), 79, 2287-2297. 10.2175/106143007X184087
36. Kim, S., Jensen, J. N., Aga, D. S. and Weber, A. S. Tetracycline as a selector for resistant bacteria in activated sludge. Chemosphere, (2007), 66, 1643-1651. 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.07.066
37. Henriques, I. D. S., Aga, D. S., Mendes, P., O'Connor, S. K. and Love, N. G. Metabolic footprinting: A new approach to identify physiological changes in complex microbial communities upon exposure to toxic chemicals. Environmental Science & Technology, (2007), 41, 3945-3951. 10.1021/es062796t
38. Farkas, M. H., Berry, J. O. and Aga, D. S. Chlortetracycline detoxification in maize via induction of glutathione S-transferases after antibiotic exposure. Environmental Science & Technology, (2007), 41, 1450-1456. 10.1021/es061651j
39. Farkas, M., Berry, J. O. and Aga, D. S. Determination of enzyme kinetics and glutathione conjugates of chlortetracycline and chloroacetanilides using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Analyst, (2007), 132, 664-671. 10.1039/b700561j
40. Batt, A. L., Kim, S. and Aga, D. S. Comparison of the occurrence of antibiotics in four full-scale wastewater treatment plants with varying designs and operations. Chemosphere, (2007), 68, 428-435. 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.01.008
41. Samara, F., Tsai, C. W. and Aga, D. S. Determination of potential sources of PCBs and PBDEs in sediments of the Niagara River. Environmental Pollution, (2006), 139, 489-497. 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.06.001
42. Pérez, S., Eichhorn, P., Celiz, M. D. and Aga, D. S. Structural characterization of metabolites of the X-ray contrast agent iopromide in activated sludge using ion trap mass spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry, (2006), 78, 1866-1874. 10.1021/ac0518809
43. Klein, C., Schneider, R. J., Meyer, M. T. and Aga, D. S. Enantiomeric separation of metolachlor and its metabolites using LC-MS and CZE. Chemosphere, (2006), 62, 1591-1599. 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2005.06.048
44. Batt, A. L., Snow, D. D. and Aga, D. S. Occurrence of sulfonamide antimicrobials in private water wells in Washington County, Idaho, USA. Chemosphere, (2006), 64, 1963-1971. 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.01.029
45. Batt, A. L., Kim, S. and Aga, D. S. Enhanced biodegradation of iopromide and trimethoprim in nitrifying activated sludge. Environmental Science & Technology, (2006), 40, 7367-7373. 10.1021/es060835v
46. Batt, A. L., Bruce, I. B. and Aga, D. S. Evaluating the vulnerability of surface waters to antibiotic contamination from varying wastewater treatment plant discharges. Environmental Pollution, (2006), 142, 295-302. 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.10.010
47. Pérez, S., Eichhorn, P. and Aga, D.S. (2005). Evaluating the biodegradability of sulfamethazine, sulfamethoxazole, sulfathiazole, and trimethoprim at different stages of sewage treatment. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, (2005), 24, 1361-1367. 10.1897/04-211R.1
48. Pérez, S. and Aga, D.S. (2005). Recent advances in the sample preparation, liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometric analysis and environmental fate of microcystins in water. Trends in Analytical Chemistry, (2005), 24, 658-670. 10.1016/j.trac.2005.04.005
49. Kim, S., Eichhorn, P., Jensen, J. N., Weber, A. S. and Aga, D. S. Removal of antibiotics in wastewater: Effect of hydraulic and solid retention times on the fate of tetracycline in the activated sludge process. Environmental Science & Technology, (2005), 39, 5816-5823. 10.1021/es050006u
50. Eichhorn, P., Ferguson, P. L., Perez, S. and Aga, D. S. Application of ion trap-MS with QqTOF-MS in the identification H/D exchange and of microbial degradates of trimethoprim in nitrifying activated sludge. Analytical Chemistry, (2005), 77, 4176-4184. 10.1021/ac050141p
51. Eichhorn, P. and Aga, D. S. Characterization of moenomycin antibiotics from medicated chicken feed by ion-trap mass spectrometry with electrospray ionization. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, (2005), 19, 2179-2186. 10.1002/rcm.2044
52. Batt, A. L. and Aga, D. S. Simultaneous analysis of multiple classes of antibiotics by ion trap LC/MS/MS for assessing surface water and groundwater contamination. Analytical Chemistry, (2005), 77, 2940-2947. 10.1021/ac048512+
53. Aga, D. S., O'Connor, S., Ensley, S., Payero, J. O., Snow, D. and Tarkalson, D. Determination of the persistence of tetracycline antibiotics and their degradates in manure-amended soil using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, (2005), 53, 7165-7171. 10.1021/jf050415+
54. Kulshrestha, P., Giese, R. F. and Aga, D. S. Investigating the molecular interactions of oxytetracycline in clay and organic matter: Insights on factors affecting its mobility in soil. Environmental Science & Technology, (2004), 38, 4097-4105. 10.1021/es034856q
55. Eichhorn, P., Perez, S., Bechtholt, A. and Aga, D. S. Fragmentation studies on the antibiotic avilamycin A using ion trap mass spectrometry. Journal of Mass Spectrometry, (2004), 39, 1541-1553. 10.1002/jms.760
56. Eichhorn, P. and Aga, D. S. Identification of a photooxygenation product of chlortetracycline in hog lagoons using LC/ESI-ion trap-MS and LC/ESI-time-of-flight-MS. Analytical Chemistry, (2004), 76, 6002-6011. 10.1021/ac0494127
57. Aga, D. S., Goldfish, R. and Kulshrestha, P. Application of ELISA in determining the fate of tetracyclines in land-applied livestock wastes. Analyst, (2003), 128, 658-662. 10.1039/b301630g
58. Thurman, E.M., Zimmerman, L.R., Aga, D.S. and Gilliom, R.J. (2001). Regional water-quality analysis of 2,4-d and dicamba in river water using gas chromatography isotope dilution mass spectrometry. International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, 79(3), 185-98.
59. Thurman, E.M. and Aga, D.S. (2001). Detection of pesticides and pesticide metabolites using the cross reactivity of enzyme immunoassays. Journal of AOAC International, 84(1), 162-7.
60. Pomes, M. L., Thurman, E. M., Aga, D. S. and Goolsby, D. A. Evaluation of microtiter-plate enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the analysis of triazine and chloroacetanilide herbicides in rainfall. Environmental Science & Technology, (1998), 32, 163-168. 10.1021/es970462l
61. Heberle, S.A., Aga, D.S., Hany, R. and Muller, S.R. (2000). Simultaneous quantification of acetanilide herbicides and their oxanilic and sulfonic acid metabolites in natural waters. Analytical Chemistry, 72(4), 840-5.
62. Aga, D.S., Heberle, S., Rentsch, D., Hany, R. and Muller, S.R. (1999). Sulfonic and oxanilic acid metabolites of acetanilide herbicides: Separation of diastereomers and enantiomers by capillary zone electrophoresis and identification by H-1 NMR spectroscopy. Environmental Science & Technology, 33(19), 3462-8.
63. Pomes, M. L., Thurman, E. M., Aga, D. S. and Goolsby, D. A. Evaluation of microtiter-plate enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the analysis of triazine and chloroacetanilide herbicides in rainfall. Environmental Science & Technology, (1998), 32, 163-168. 10.1021/es970462l
64. Morton, M.D., Walters, F.H., Aga, D.S., Thurman, E.M. and Larive, C.K. (1997). Nuclear magnetic resonance identification of new sulfonic acid metabolites of chloroacetanilide herbicides. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 45(4), 1240-3.
65. Aga, D. S. Environmental immunoassays: practical applications and recent developments. Analusis, (1997), 25, M25-M29.
66. Thurman, E. M., Goolsby, D. A., Aga, D. S., Pomes, M. L. and Meyer, M. T. Occurrence of alachlor and its sulfonated metabolite in rivers and reservoirs of the midwestern United States: The importance of sulfonation in the transport of chloroacetanilide herbicides. Environmental Science & Technology, (1996), 30, 569-574. 10.1021/es950341q
67. Aga, D. S., Thurman, E. M., Yockel, M. E., Zimmerman, L. R. and Williams, T. D. Identification of a new sulfenic acid metabolite of metolachlor in soil. Environmental Science & Technology, (1996), 30, 592-597. 10.1021/es9503600
68. Aga, D.S., Thurman, E.M. and Pomes, M.L. (1994). Determination of alachlor and its sulfonic-acid metabolite in water by solid-phase extraction and enzyme-linked-immunosorbent-assay. Analytical Chemistry, 66(9), 1495-9.
69. Aga, D.S. and Thurman, E.M. (1993). Coupling solid-phase extraction and enzyme-linked-immunosorbent-assay for ultratrace determination of herbicides in pristine water. Analytical Chemistry, 65(20), 2894-8.

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