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 Carlos D. Garcia, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Chemistry Department of Biomedical Engineering
Educational Background:
Areas of Research Interest: Microchips are one of the most promising analytical platforms due to the great advantages with respect to conventional bench-top equipment. Microfluidic devices are able to offer custom design, high throughput, sensitivity, selectivity and portability. In order to achieve a real point-of-care measurement device, simple instrumentation has to be integrated to drive the injection and separation. Electrochemical detection (ECD) methods have been widely applied for the detection of bio-compounds because they are less susceptible to decreases in signal magnitude during miniaturization and are already portable and inexpensive. For these reasons, we are very interested in studying the design, operation and biological applications of microchips and capillary electrophoresis. In addition, we are also interested in the rational design of biosensors. Selected Publications: Felhofer J, Hanrahan G and Garcia CD: Multivariate versus Univariate Optimization of Separation Conditions in Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography. Talanta - in press, 2008. Berg C, Valdez DC, Bergeron P, Mora MF, Garcia CD and Ayon A: Lab-on-a-Robot: Integrated Microchip-Capillary Electrophoresis, Power supply, Potentiostat, Wireless Unit, and Controller Circuitry. Electrophoresis in press, 2008. Mora MF and Garcia CD: Analytical Strategies Towards the Analysis of Phenolic Compounds by Capillary Electrophoresis and Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis. Journal 245-257, 2008. Mora MF, Felhofer J, Ayon A and Garcia CD: Surfactants as a Preferred Option to Improve Separation and Electrochemical Detection in Capillary Electrophoresis. Anal. Lett. 41: 312-334, 2008. Ding Y, Rogers K and Garcia CD: Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Microchip Electrophoresis with Contactless Conductivity Detection for Measurement of Chemical Warfare Agent Degradation Products. Anal. Lett. 41: 335-350, 2008. Valenti LE, Fiorito PA, Garcia CD and Giacomelli CE: The adsorption-desorption process of bovine serum albumin on carbon nanotubes. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 307: 349-356, 2007. Mora MF, Ding Y, Mejia E and Garcia CD: Recent Advances of Capillary Electrophoresis and Electrochemical Detection for the Analysis of Phenolic Compounds. J. Cap. Elec. Microchip Tech. 10: 7-18, 2007. Mejia E, Ding Y, Mora MF and Garcia CD: Determination of Banned Sudan Dyes in Chili Powder by Capillary Electrophoresis. Food Chem. 102: 1027-1033, 2007. Mora MF and Garcia CD: Electrophoretic separation of phenolic contaminants using fused silica capillaries coated with montmorillonite. Electrophoresis 28: 1197-1203, 2007. Blanes L, Mora MF, do Lago CL, Ayon A and Garcia CD: Lab-on-a-Chip Biosensor for Glucose Based on a Packed Immobilized Enzyme Reactor. Electroanalysis 19: 2451-2456, 2007. Contact Information: Department of Chemistry University of Texas at San Antonio Phone: 210-458-5465 Fax: 210-458-7428 carlos.garcia@utsa.edu URL: http://utsa.edu/chem/faculty/carlosGarcia/Garcia.html
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