education

Ph.D. Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Michigan State University, 1997

B.S. Chemistry, Ithaca College, 1990

publications

Detection of bacterial spores with lanthanide-macrocycle binary complexes.  Cable, M.L.; Kirby, J.P.; Levine, D.J.; Manary, M.J.; Gray, H.B.; Ponce, A.  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131(27), 9562-9570. [PDF]

Principles for engineering molecular receptor sites.  Contakes, S.M.; Cable, M.L.; Kirby, J.P.; Ponce, A.  In Bottom-up Nanofabrication: Supramolecules, Self-Assemblies, and Organized Films, Eds. Ariga, K.; Nalwa, H.S., American Scientific Publishers, 2009.

Spectroscopic analysis of ligand binding to lanthanide-macrocycle platforms.  Kirby, J.P.; Cable, M.L.; Levine, D.J.; Gray, H.B.; Ponce, A.  Analytical Chemistry, 2008, 80(15), 5750-5754. [PDF]

Bacterial spore detection by [Tb3+(macrocycle)(dipicolinate)] luminescence.  Cable, M.L.; Kirby, J.P.; Sorasaenee, K.; Gray, H.B.; Ponce, A.  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2007, 129, 1474-1475. [PDF]

Towards an in-situ endospore detection instrument.  Shafaat, H.S.; Cable, M.L.; Ikeda, M.K.; Kirby, J.P.; Pelletier, C.C.; Ponce, A.  IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2005. [PDF]