Investigating Dengue lineage shifts, SARS-CoV-2 atomic escape trajectories, Chikungunya arthralgia biomarkers, and Agarwood resin elicitation funded by World Bank (HEAT-11009-CU), MOST, and international partners.
Comprehensive surveillance correlating clinical disease severity with DENV lineage shifts, host seroprevalence, and in vivo murine challenge models.
Investigating CHIKV structural and non-structural polyprotein mutations, mapping lineage divergences, and dissecting their mechanistic links to acute vs. chronic arthralgia.
High-resolution computational docking and thermodynamic profiling elucidating the structural biophysics of spike mutation-driven antibody evasion and ACE2 binding affinity.
Elucidating the biochemical cascades, terpene synthase activation, and molecular pathways governing artificial agarwood oleoresin synthesis.
In silico structure-guided reverse vaccinology engineering chimeric immunogens capable of eliciting broad cross-neutralizing antibody titers across DENV-1–4 without ADE risk.
Development, expression, and in vivo murine immunogenicity assessment of novel Japanese Encephalitis Virus recombinant subunit candidates formulated with nano-adjuvants.
Standardized, bench-verified protocols developed and utilized by MSI Lab researchers across viral surveillance, clinical serology, in vivo challenge, molecular docking, and phytochemical extractions. Available for open academic download.
Standard operating procedure for one-step real-time reverse transcription PCR, covering RNase-free glassware preparation, primer-probe mastermix assembly, and thermal cycling parameters for viral pathogen surveillance.
Phase-by-phase extraction protocol isolating high-purity total and viral genomic RNA from human clinical whole blood samples with beta-mercaptoethanol lysis optimization.
Optimized protocol for recovery of cell-free circulating viral genomic RNA from patient serum samples, calibrated for acute viremic titers in arboviral infections.
Specialized protocol detailing tissue mass constraints (≤15 mg) and shear parameters required to prevent high-viscosity lysates when isolating immune lymphoid RNA from immunized mouse spleens.
Comprehensive guide covering molarity and buffer math (% w/v, mM mass, C1V1=C2V2, RPM vs. RCF), antigen coating, blocking, serial serum dilution, and optical density (OD450) sigmoid curve fitting.
Standard flow cytometry procedure for blood sample preparation, red blood cell ammonium chloride lysis, cell suspension washing, fluorophore-conjugated antibody staining, and cytometer gating.
Protocol detailing 10x PBS buffer chemistry, antigen-adjuvant formulation, immunization dosing schedules in BALB/c and AG129 mice, and blood/spleen harvesting for vaccine evaluation.
End-to-end computational pipeline for structural preparation in PyMOL/ChimeraX, PDB cleaning, active/passive restraint definition, rigid-body docking, semi-flexible refinement, and PRODIGY binding free energy analysis.
Field-ready protocol developed by the MSI Lab for the vegetative clonal propagation and rooting induction of critically endangered agarwood (Aquilaria malaccensis) stem cuttings.
Preparation guide for synthetic auxin Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) stock solutions, dissolution chemistry, potassium hydroxide/ethanol co-solvents, and concentration titration for agarwood rooting.
Specialized modified CTAB protocol for extracting intact, high-quality total RNA from woody, polyphenol- and polysaccharide-dense Aquilaria malaccensis tissues for terpene synthase RT-qPCR.
