Participating Faculty

Department of Biology & Molecular Biology

• Dr. Paul Bologna - bolognap@mail.montclair.edu
  • Assessment of Seagrass Community Structure in New Jersey
• Dr. John J. Gaynor - jack.gaynor@montclair.edu
  1. Adventures in Nanotechnology
  2. Genomes in Flux: Copy Number Variation in the Yeast
  3. Genome Under Oxidative Stress
• Dr. Scott Kight - kights@mail.montclair.edu
  • Arthropod Parental Care: Do They Make Good Decisions?
    
• Dr. Carlos A. Molina - molinac@mail.montclair.edu
  1. A Transgenic Mouse Model for Hyperovulation
  2. Regulation of a Transcriptional Repressor by Phosphorylation, Ubiquitination and Subcellular Localization
• Dr. Elena Petroff - petroffe@mail.montclair.edu
  • Ion Channels and Brain Function
• Dr. Robert Prezant - prezantr@mail.montclair.edu
  1. Dispersal of Sedentary Bivalves – How Do Those Clams Get Around?
  2. Population Dynamics of Mangrove Dwelling Laternulid Bivalves of Thailand
• Dr. Quinn Vega - vegaq@mail.montclair.edu
  • Regulation of the Receptor Tyrosine Kinase R
• Dr. Meiyin Wu - wum@mail.montclair.edu
  • Feasibility of Ultrasonic Control for Aquatic Invasive Species Management

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

• Dr. Nina M. Goodey - goodeyn@mail.montclair.edu
  • Enzyme Acrobatics - Relationship between Protein Motion and Catalysis
• Dr. Johannes P.M. Schelvis - schelvisj@mail.montclair.edu
  • DNA Repair with Light: New Insight into the DNA Repair Mechanism of DNA Photolyase
• Dr. John J. Siekierka - siekierkaj@mail.montclair.edu
  1. Drugs for Globally Neglected Diseases: Parasite Protein Kinases as Drug Targets
  2. Viral-Host Interactions in HIV Infection: HIV Escape From Host Immune Responses

Department of Computer Science

• Dr. Jing Peng - pengj@mail.montclair.edu
  • Discriminant Learning Analysis: A Robust Approach to Dimensionality Reduction
• Dr. Stefan Robila - robilas@mail.montclair.edu
  • Spectral Imaging Applications

Earth & Environmental Studies

• Dr. Kirk Barrett - barrettki@mail.montclair.edu
  • Is flooding getting worse? An empirical analysis of NJ flood flow trends
• Dr. Huan Edward Feng - fengh@mail.montclair.edu
  • Urban Estuarine and Coastal Environmental Study
• Dr. Joshua C. Galster - galsterj@mail.montclair.edu
  • Measuring land-use and stream channel changes using historic aerial photographs
• Dr. Matthew Gorring - gorringm@mail.montclair.edu
  1. Ridge Collision Tectonics and Volcanism in the Southern Patagonian Andes
  2. Late Ottawan Ductile Shearing and Granitoid Emplacement in the Hudson Highlands, New York
• Dr. Duke Ophori - ophorid@mail.montclair.edu
  • A Computer Analysis of Some Effects of Groundwater Pumping on the Environment - Passaic River Basin, New Jersey
• Dr. Gregory Pope - popeg@mail.montclair.edu
  • In Search of Pyrosols
• Dr. Dibyendu Sarkar - sarkard@mail.montclair.edu
  • Arsenic in Urban Environments: A promising remedial alternative to an emerging public health issue

Mathematical Sciences

• Dr. Jonathan Cutler - cutlerjo@mail.montclair.edu
  1. Trees through specified vertices (graph theory)
  2. Entropy applications in combinatorics
• Dr. Haci-Murat (Mark) Hubey - hubeyh@mail.montclair.edu
  • Measurement, Assessment, Benchmarks, Rubrics and All That
• Dr. Aihua Li - lia@mail.montclair.edu
1. Tracing Space Points - A View of Discrete Time Series Modeling
2. Projects that Encourage Students to Talk/Write About Mathematics
3. Montclair State University REU Programs in Mathematics
4. Discrete Sturm-Liouville Problems with Nonlinear Parameter in the Boundary Conditions
5. Symbolic Powers of Radical Ideals
• Dr. Bogdan G. Nita - nitab@mail.montclair.edu
  • An inverse scattering algorithm for imaging and inversion of seismic data
• Dr. Diana Thomas - thomasdia@mail.montclair.edu
  • The Mathematics of Weight Change: Why is it so hard to lose weight?