Yiping Cao

Diversity, composition, and geographical distribution of microbial communities in California salt marsh sediments.

Microbial community composition and denitrifying enzyme activities in salt marsh sediments.

Evaluation of optical brightener photodecay characteristics for detection of human fecal contamination.

Evaluation of rapid methods and novel indicators for assessing microbiological beach water quality.

Application of an integrated community analysis approach for microbial source tracking in a coastal creek.

Interlaboratory comparison of real-time PCR protocols for quantification of general fecal indicator bacteria.

Using rapid indicators for Enterococcus to assess the risk of illness after exposure to urban runoff contaminated marine water.

Application of phylogenetic microarray analysis to discriminate sources of fecal pollution.

Improved algorithm for phase-to-height mapping in phase measuring profilometry.

A multi-beach study of Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, and enterococci in seawater and beach sand.

Double "plug and play" templates technology for photo controllable drug release polyelectrolyte multilayers.

Effect of platform, reference material, and quantification model on enumeration of Enterococcus by quantitative PCR methods.

[Current progress in research on the nanomaterials for biological macromolecules recognition].

Characterization of fecal concentrations in human and other animal sources by physical, culture-based, and quantitative real-time PCR methods.

Evaluation of molecular community analysis methods for discerning fecal sources and human waste.

Bacteroidales terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) for fecal source differentiation in comparison to and in combination with universal bacteria TRFLP.

Evaluation of the repeatability and reproducibility of a suite of qPCR-based microbial source tracking methods.

Performance of human fecal anaerobe-associated PCR-based assays in a multi-laboratory method evaluation study.

Swimmer illness associated with marine water exposure and water quality indicators: impact of widely used assumptions.

Fringe-projection profilometry based on two-dimensional empirical mode decomposition.

Effect of submarine groundwater discharge on bacterial indicators and swimmer health at Avalon Beach, CA, USA.

Droplet digital PCR for simultaneous quantification of general and human-associated fecal indicators for water quality assessment.

Mapping the Complex Phase Behaviors of Aqueous Mixtures of κ-Carrageenan and Type B Gelatin.

A 3D graphene oxide microchip and a Au-enwrapped silica nanocomposite-based supersandwich cytosensor toward capture and analysis of circulating tumor cells.

Multi-laboratory survey of qPCR enterococci analysis method performance in U.S. coastal and inland surface waters.

Absolute Quantification of Enterococcal 23S rRNA Gene Using Digital PCR.

Microbes as Engines of Ecosystem Function: When Does Community Structure Enhance Predictions of Ecosystem Processes?