I am currently a bioinformatician at the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History. My current research includes estimating error rates of next-generation sequencing, tracking bacterial haplogroups in a ringtail lemur troops in Madagascar, determining how microbial communities change with freshwater salinization or pollution by human activity, and building gene annotation pipelines for use on non-model organisms. I build scalable and reusable pipelines to identify and QC genomic variants and annotations from high-throughput sequencing data on distributed computing systems. I trained at Ramapo College of New Jersey and Johns Hopkins University, and previously was a bioinformatician at the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Email: bobod@montclair.edu

I am pursuing a master's in biology at Montclair State University, while working as a full-time environmental science and biology teacher at Livingston high school in New Jersey. I am passionate about educating students in regards to the human impact on the planet, specifically through hands-on outdoor lab experiences where students can collect and analyze their own data. Working in a lab will help me learn techniques and strategies that I can bring back to my high school students.

I am a graduate student in the Master's program in Coastal and Marine Sciences at Montclair State University. I've wanted to be involved in biology since I was young. Previously, I've been involved in projects involving topics ranging from Horseshoe Crabs, pesticide analysis, Combined Sewer Overflow events, zooplankton collection, and seagrass habitat analysis. Currently, I'm particularly interested in the effects of anthropogenic inputs and alterations on the species and habitats present in a given space, such as in the case of nutrient pollution, habitat degradation, etc.

I’m currently a graduate student at Montclair State University pursuing a Masters Degree in Biology. I started solely wanting to pursue a career in medicine. But further studies have grown my interest in how humans have impacted different species and ecosystems. During one semester, my classmates and I performed an experiment that tried to test the amount of salts that red salamanders tolerate in the hope to explain the role of road salts on amphibians. Once completed I'd like to either further explore the role of species in the stability of ecosystems or a career in medicine.

I am currently an undergraduate junior majoring in biology. When I first began attending university I intended to pursue a career within medicine. However, as I continued to progress throughout more science courses, I truly fell in love with biology. Today, I aim to pursue a master's degree in biology.

I am senior at Montclair State University majoring in exercise science with clinical pre professional studies. My main goal is to pursue a masters degree in Physician Assistant. As a student, I like studying and observing various science courses. To further expand my science knowledge I became interested in doing biological research. Specifically research on ecological impact on different species and their habitats. Current research projects for the fall of 2021 include: microbial communities caused by tap water differences, the effect of carbon pollution on the growth and diversity of zooplankton and others.