Articles
Selected Publications
Academic
“9S1R nullomer peptide induces mitochondrial pathology, metabolic suppression, and enhanced immune cell infiltration, in triple-negative breast cancer mouse model.” Ali, Nilufar, Cody Wolf, Swarna Kanchan, Shivakumar R. Veerabhadraiah, Laura Bond, Matthew W. Turner, Cheryl L. Jorcyk, and Greg Hampikian. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 170 (2024): 115997.
“COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths predicted by SARS-CoV-2 levels in Boise, Idaho wastewater.” Kanchan, Swarna, Ernie Ogden, Minu Kesheri, Alexis Skinner, Erin Miliken, Devyn Lyman, Jacob Armstrong, Lawrence Sciglitano, and Greg Hampikian. Science of The Total Environment 907 (2024): 167742.
Many direct-to-consumer canine genetic tests can identify the breed of purebred dogs. Rando, H. M., Graim, K., Hampikian, G., & Greene, C. S. (2024). Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1(aop), 1-8.
Correcting Forensic DNA Errors, Forensic Science International: Genetics, Volume 41, (2019), Pages 32-33.
Jason Besecker, Gianluca Peri, Michael Davis, Josu Zubizarreta, Greg Hampikian, Allele frequencies of 15 STR loci (Identifiler™ kit) in Basque-Americans, Legal Medicine, Volume 31, (2018), Pages 17-19.
GregHampikian, Gianluca Peri, Shih-Shiang Lo, Mong-Hwa, ChincKuo-LanLiu, Case report: Coincidental inclusion in a 17-locus Y-STR mixture, wrongful conviction and exoneration, Forensic Science International: Genetics,Volume 31, November 2017, Pages 1-4.
Alileche, A., Hampikian, G. The effect of Nullomer-derived peptides 9R, 9S1R and 124R on the NCI-60 panel and normal cell lines. BMC Cancer 17, 533 (2017)
Pham-Hoai, E., Crispino, F., Hampikian, G., The first successful use of simple low stringency familial searching in a French criminal investigation, Volume59, Issue3, May 2014, Pages 816-819.
Goswami, J., Davis, M.S, Andersen, T., Alileche, A., Hampikian, G. Safeguarding Forensic DNA Reference Samples with Nullomer Barcodes, (In press, the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine 2013).
Besecker, J., Cornell, K. A., and Hampikian, G., Dynamic Passivation with BSA Overcomes LTCC Mediated Inhibition of PCR, Sensors and Actuators, Vol. 176, Pages 118–123 (January 2013).
Visser, R. and Hampikian G., When DNA Won’t Work, Idaho Law Review (Fall 2012).
Ullakko, K., Wendell, L., Smith, A., Müllner, P. and Hampikian, G., Magnetic shape memory micropump: contact-free, and compatible with PCR and human DNA profiling, Smart Materials and Structures 21 (2012).
Allileche, A., Goswami, J., Davis, M., Bourland, B., Nullomer Derived Anti-Cancer Peptides, Peptides, Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 302–311, (December 2012).
Valverde, L., Rosique, M., Köhnemann, S., Cardoso, S., García, A., Odriozola, A., Aznar, JM, Celorrio, D., Schuerenkamp, M., Zubizarreta, J., Davis, M., Hampikian, G., Pfeiffer, H., de Pancorbo, M. Y-STR variation in the Basque diaspora in the Western USA: evolutionary and forensic perspectives, Mar;126(2):293-8, Int J Legal Med, (2012)
Karalova, E. M., Sargsyan, Kh.V., Hampikian G.K., Voskanyan , H. E., Abroyan L. O., Avetisyan A. S., Hakobyan, & L. A, Arzumanyan, H.H., Zakaryan H. S., Karalyan, Zaven A., Phenotypic and cytologic studies of lymphoid cells and monocytes in primary culture of porcine bone marrow during infection of African swine fever virus, BMC Veterinary Research, 8:18 (2012)
Hampikian, G, West, E., Askelrod, O. “The Genetics if Innocence: Analysis of 194 American DNA Exonerations,”Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 12 (2011).
Zubizarreta, J., Davis, M., Hampikian, G., “The Y-STR genetic diversity of an Idaho Basque population, with comparison to European Basques and US Caucasians”, Human Biology, 83(6): 685-694, (2011).
Dror, I. and Hampikian, G., Subjectivity and bias in forensic DNA mixture interpretation, Science & Justice, Dec;51(4):204-8, Epub 2011 Sep 1.(2011)
Bourland, W., Vdacny, P, Davis, M., and Hampikian, G., Morphology, Morphometrics and Molecular Characterization of Bryophrya gemmea n. sp. (Ciliophora, Colpodea): Implications for the Phylogeny and Evolutionary Scenario for the Formation of Oral Ciliature in Order Colpodida, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol 58, Issue 1, p 22-36, January/February 2011.
Davis, M., Novak, S., Hampikian, G., Mitochondrial DNA analysis of an immigrant Basque population: loss of diversity due to founder effects, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 144, Issue 4, p516-525, April (2011).
Bullock, C., Jacob, R., McDougal, O., Hampikian, G., Andersen, T. DockoMatic – Automated Ligand Creation and Docking, BMC Research Notes 2010, 3:289.
Abu B. Kanu, Greg Hampikian, Simon D. Brandt, Herbert H. Hill Jr., Ribonucleotide and ribonucleoside determination by ambient pressure ion mobility spectrometry, Analytica Chimica Acta 658 (2010) 91–97.
D. E. Krane, et al. (39 authors) “Time for DNA Disclosure”, Science, Vol. 326. no. 5960, pp. 1631 – 1632, 18 December (2009).
Lucian A. Lucia, Lambrini Adamapoulos, Jason Montegna, Greg Hampikian, Dimitris S. Argryopoulos, John Heitmann (2007), “A Simple Method to Tune the Gross Antibacterial Activity of Cellulosic Biomaterials,” Carbohydrate Polymers 69; 805–810.
Greg Hampikian and Tim Andersen (2007), “Absent Sequences: Nullomers and Primes,” Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 12:355-366.
K. Moeller, J. Besecker, G. Hampikian, A. Moll, D. Plumlee, J. Youngsman and J.M. Hampikian, (2007), “A Prototype Continuous Flow Polymerase Chain Reaction LTCC Device,” Materials Science Forum Vols. 539-543 pp. 523-528.
G. Hampikian, (2005), “The Future of Forensic DNA,” The Canadian Journal of Police and Security Services, (Spring, 2005).
M. Crayton, C. Ladd, M. Sommer, G. Hampikian, L. Strausbaugh, (2004), “An organizational model of transcription factor binding sites for a histone promoter in D. melanogaster,” In Silico Biology 4, 40-45 (October, 2004).
“Exit to Freedom,” Johnson and Hampikian (University of Georgia Press, 2003): Calvin C. Johnson, Jr.’s autobiography (written by Hampikian). The true story of a man who served 16 years in Georgia prisons for a rape he did not commit until DNA evidence freed him. Afterward by Barry Scheck.
Awarded the 2004 Silver Medal in biography, (ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards).
Nominated for the 2004 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Nominated for the 2004 African American Literary Awards.P. Henderson, D. Jones, G. Hampikian, Y. Kan, and G. Schuster (1999), “Long-distance charge transport in duplex DNA: The polaron-like hopping mechanism,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Vol. 96, Issue 15, 8353-8358, July 20, 1999.
G. Hampikian, J. Graves, D. Cooper, (1994), “Sex- determination in the marsupial” in Molecular Genetics of Sex Determination, (Ed. S. Wachtel), Academic Press.
M. Gaudette, G. Hampikian, V. Metelev, S. Agrawal and W. Crain, (1993), “Effect on embryos of phosphorothioate modified oligos. into pregnant mice,” Antisense Res. & Dev., 3:391-397.
J. Graves, J. Foster, G. Hampikian, F. Brennan, (1993), “Sex- determination in marsupial mammals,” in Sex Chromosomes and Sex Determining Genes, (Editors, K. Reed and J. Graves) Gordon and Breach, Melbourne.
J. Foster, F. Brennan, G. Hampikian, P.N. Goodfellow, A. Sinclair, R. Lovell-Badge, L. Selwood, M. Renfree, D. Cooper and J. Graves, (1992), “Evolution of sex determination and the Y chromosome: SRY- related sequences in marsupials,” Nature: 359:531-533.
F. Deak, Y. Kiss, K. Sparks, S. Argraves, G. Hampikian and P. Goetinck (1986), “Amino acid sequence of chicken cartilage link protein from c-DNA clones,” Proc. National Academy of Science, U.S.A.: 83:3766- 3770.
Other writing
Exit to Freedom, the Calvin Johnson Jr. Story of DNA Exoneration
Scientists Not To Blame For Crime Lab Backlog, (2011) Hartford Courant
Lessons from the Master Teacher, Hartford Courant
Dad’s Glad Rags, Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Grants Over Death, Radio Play, KBOI Radio Boise
Inflection Point, Play Staged Reading Alley Reparatory Theater, Boise, ID.
Your Name In Bold, Play, winner of the Percolating Playwrights Award, Theater in the Round, Marietta, GA; staged first at Clayton State University.
Things Not Seen, Play, performed at Clayton State University.