Dr. Denise G. Wingett earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Boise State University, a Ph.D. in Biophysics and Biochemistry from Washington State University, and then returned to Boise State as faculty in 2003. She now serves as professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and director of the Biomolecular Ph.D. program. In addition, she serves as affiliate faculty at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and as a Research Associate at Mountain States Tumor and Medical Research Institute here in Boise. The overall focus of her research investigates how the immune system is involved in the pathogenesis of human diseases, including asthma, autoimmunity and cancer, and novel ways to treat disease including nanotechnology based approaches.
Articles
Improving the Selective Cancer Killing Ability of ZnO Nanoparticles Using Fe Doping (with Aaron Thurber, John W. Rasmussen, Janet Layne, Lydia Johnson, Dmitri A. Tenne, Jianhui Zhang, Charles B. Hanna, and Alex Punnoose), Nanotoxicology (2012)
This work reports a new method to improve our recent demonstration of zinc oxide (ZnO)...
Enhanced Dye Fluorescence in Novel Dye–ZnO Nanocomposites (with Jianhui Zhang, Aaron Thurber, Dmitri A. Tenne, John W. Rasmussen, Charles Hanna, and Alex Punnoose), Advanced Functional Materials (2010)
New fluorescein isothiocyanate/fluorescein/rhodamine B-doped ZnO composite nanostructures including tripods, tubes, and rods with tuned sizes...
Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for Selective Destruction of Tumor Cells and Potential for Drug Delivery Applications (with John W. Rasmussen, Ezequiel Martinez, and Panagiota Louka), Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery (2010)
Importance of the field: Metal oxide nanoparticles, including zinc oxide, are versatile platforms for biomedical...
Electrostatic Interactions Affect Nanoparticle-Mediated Toxicity to Gram-Negative Bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 (with Kevin Feris, Caitlin Otto, Juliette Tinker, Alex Punnoose, Aaron Thurber, Madhu Kongara, Maryam Sabetian, Bonnie Quinn, Charles Hanna, and David Pink), Langmuir (2009)
Nanoscale materials can have cytotoxic effects. Here we present the first combined empirical and theoretical...
The Influences of Cell Type and ZnO Nanoparticle Size on Immune Cell Cytotoxicity and Cytokine Induction (with Cory Hanley, Aaron Thurber, Charles Hanna, Alex Punnoose, and Jianhui Zhang), Nanoscale Research Letters (2009)
Nanotechnology represents a new and enabling platform that promises to provide a range of innovative...
Presentations
Air Quality and You: The Role of Diesel Exhaust Particles in Immune System Activation (with A. Masterson), National Science Foundation GK-12 Annual Meeting (2009)
Antimicrobial Effects and Mechanisms of Toxicity of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles (with Keven Feris, Jason Bell, Madhu Kongara, Isaac Coombs, Hua Wang, Cory Hanley, and Alex Punnoose), Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Pacific Division, 88th Annual Meeting (2007)
Recent indications of nanoscale (<100 >nm) metal oxide toxicity and their increased presence in the...