Napoleon Tercero

Research Associate

500 W, 120^th street, Mudd 914,

New York, NY, 10027

Ph. 212-854-2925

Email: net2105@columbia.edu

Postdoctoral Training

· National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 2010-2012

Education

· PhD in Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, NY, 2006-2010

Thesis: Characterization and Application of Morpholino Monolayers in Nucleic Acid Diagnostics. Advisor: Prof. Rastislav Levicky

· M.Phil. in Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, NY, 2004-2006

· B.S. in Chemical Engineering, City College of New York, NY, 2001-2004

Other Education

· Chief Science Officer Certificate Program, Montgomery College, MD, 2011

Research Highlights

· Electrochemical methods for analyzing nanoparticles in environmental samples.

· Development of electrochemical methods to monitor protein structure in solution.

· Development of low resolution spectroscopic methods (infrared, fluorescence, Raman) to study membrane protein structure and orientation to complement techniques such as NMR and X-ray crystallography.

· Design of bioelectrochemical sensors.

Publications

1. Napoleon E. Tercero and Joseph Kotarek, Voltammetric Monitoring of Protein Aggregation from Solution Using Tris-(2,2'-Bipyridine) Osmium (II) Chloride Complex as an Electrocatalytic Mediator. December 2012 (In review).

2. Robert O’ Connor, Napoleon E. Tercero, Wanqiong Qiao and Rastislav Levicky, Electrochemical Studies of Morpholino-DNA Surface Hybridization, ECS Transactions, 2011, 35, 99-110.

3. Napoleon E. Tercero, Kang Wang, Rastislav Levicky, Capacitive Monitoring of Morpholino-DNA Surface Hybridization: Experimental and Theoretical Analysis, Langmuir, 2010, 26, 14351-14358.

4. Napoleon E. Tercero, Kang Wang, Ping Gong, Rastislav Levicky, Morpholino Monolayers: Preparation and Label-free DNA Analysis by Surface Hybridization, J.Am.Chem.Soc, 2009, 131, 4953-4961.

5. Gang Shen, Napoleon E. Tercero, Mariafrancis Anand Gaspar, Bindhu Varughese, Kenneth Shepard and Rastislav Levicky, Charging Behavior of Single-Stranded DNA Polyelectrolyte Brushes, J.Am.Chem.Soc, 2006, 128, 8427-8433.