Chunguang Du, Ph.D.    Associate Professor

Science Hall 110     (973) 655-4405

duc@mail.montclair.edu

Professor Du's Home Page:  http://limei.montclair.edu/du/ 


Courses Taught

BIOL 112 Principles of Biology I

BIOL 380 Genetics

BIOL 487 Statistical Genomics

BIOL 497 Genomics

BIOL 498 Proteomics

SCIF 491 Research Experience in Science Informatics I

SCIF 492 Research Experience in Science Informatics II


Selected Publications

· Du, C.G., N. Fefelova, J. Caronna, L. He, H.K. Dooner. 2009. The polychromatic Helitron landscape of the maize genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (In Press)

· Lopatto, D., C. Alvarez, D. Barnard, C Chandrasekaran, H.-M. Chung, C. Du, et al. 2008. Genomics Education Partnership.  Science. Vol. 322: 684-685

· Du, C.G., J. Caronna, L. He, H.K. Dooner. 2008. Computational Prediction and Molecular Confirmation of Helitron transposons in the Maize Genome. BMC Genomics. 9:51

· He, L.M., C.G. Du, Y. Li, C. Scheuring, H.B. Zhang. 2007. Chapter 13 Construction of Large-insert Bacterial Clone Libraries and Their Applications. Aquaculture Genome Technologies. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN: 9781405126106.

· Du, C.G., S. Swigonova, J. Messing. 2006. Retrotranspositions in orthologous regions of closely related species. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 6:62

· Rémy Bruggmann, Arvind K. Bharti, Heidrun Gundlach, Jinsheng Lai, Ana C. Pontaroli, Georg Haberer, Galina Fuks, Chunguang Du, et al. 2006. Uneven chromosome contraction and expansion in the maize genome. Genome Research. 10.1101/gr.5338906

·      The Rice Chromosomes 11 and 12 Sequencing Consortia. 2005. The sequence of rice chromosomes 11 and 12, rich in disease resistance genes and recent gene duplications. BMC Biology. 3:20

· Wezenter, J. and C.G. Du. 2005. Identification of DNA Sequences of Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons in Maize. Journal of Young Investigator. Vol 13, Issue 3.

· Campanella, J.J, Q. Vega, C.G. Du, W. Graff, and O. Gomes. 2005. A microarray analysis of gene regulation in radiation-induced plant tumor and Arabidopsis thaliana tissues. In Vivo. Vol. 27(1): 4-14.

· He, L., C.G. Du, L. Covaleda, Z. Xu, A. F. Robinson, J. Z. Yu, R. J. Kohel, and H.-B. Zhang. 2004. Cloning, Characterization, and Evolution of the NBS-LRR-encoding Resistance Gene Analogue Family in Polypolid Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 17: 1234-1241.

· Umer, M.A., C.G. Du, and J. Dyer. 2004. A computational analysis of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) glyoxysomal 3-oxoacyl-CoA thiolase. Journal of Young Investigators, Vol. 11, No. 3

· Du, C.G., E. Buckler, and S.V. Muse. 2003. Development of a maize molecular evolutionary genomics database. Comparative and Functional Genomics. 4:246-249.

· Du, C.G. and L.R. Nelson. 1999. Diallel analysis of gene effects conditioning resistance to Stagonospora nodorum (Berk.) in wheat. Crop Science, Vol.39, No. 3

· Ioerger, T.R., C.G. Du, and D.S. Linthicum. 1999. Conservation of the cys-trp-cys structural triads and their geometry in the protein domains of super immunoglobulin family members.  Molecular Immunology, 36: 373-386



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Montclair State University

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