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The Environmental Sciences Ph.D. Program is a cooperative effort between departments in the College of Science and Mathematics. Program faculty at Wright State reside in the Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Physics, and Pharmacology & Toxicology. Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyMichael Leffak, Molecular genetic analysis of proteins and DNA involved in chromosome replication Biological Sciences DepartmentJames P. Amon, (Faculty Emeritus) wetland ecology and restoration, wetland microbial ecology, bioremediation, phytoremediation Larry Arlian, Medical entomology, physiology, immunoparasitology Volker Bahn, large scale species distribution, distribution determinants and correlations with changes in land use and climate Donald Cipollini, Jr., plant physiological ecology, molecular and chemical ecology David L. Goldstein, comparative physiology of osmoregulation, physiological ecology, ornithology Lynn Hartzler, Animal adaptation to environmental or metabolic perturbations to acid-base status Barbara Hull, evaluating environmental toxicants using an invitro skin model Dan E. Krane, molecular and genome evolution, human population substructuring Jeffrey Peters, Molecular ecology, phylogeography, behavioral ecology, molecular evolution Tom Rooney, Plant community ecology, ungulate impacts on forest ecosystems, biodiversity loss James R. Runkle, plant ecology, general ecology John Stireman, Insect ecology and evolutionary biology, ecology and evolutionary biology ecology, speciation phylo-genetics Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, aquatic ecology, ecosystem ecology Chemistry DepartmentRachel S. Aga, Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations Eric Fossum, Polymer materials for alternative energy applications and drug delivery Roger K. Gilpin, analytical chemistry Steven R. Higgins, CO2 sequestration, environmental chemistry, surface-solute interactions, contaminant transport dynamics Vladimir Katovic, synthesis, characterization and application of ionic liquids in Li-ion electrochemical cells Suzanne Lunsford, Chemistry, Development of chemical sensors to detect biological toxins of interest. Audrey E. McGowin, analytical and environmental chemistry Ioana Pavel, physical chemistry and bio-nanotechnology Paul G. Seybold, physical and biophysicalchemistry Kenneth Turnbull, Chemistry, Organic and bio-organic chemistry Community HealthRichard Henderson, decompression sickness, cardiorespiratory resuscitation, breath chemistry Earth and Environmental Sciences DepartmentAbinash Agrawal, contaminant hydrogeology, site remediation Christopher Barton, analysis and forecasting of nonlinear natural systems using the mathematics of complexity Huntting W. Brown, (Senior Lecturer) environmental management and law G. Allen Burton (Adjunct Faculty), aquatic toxicology, ecological risk assessment Songlin Cheng, hydrogeochemistry, isotope hydrology, geographic information systems Charles Ciampaglio (Lake Campus), Vertebrate macroevolution, paleoecology, diversity, and depositional environments, with a focus upon Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenzozoic Chondrichthyes. David Dominic, clastic sedimentology, stratigraphy Bryan Gregor, (Faculty Emeritus) modeling the sedimentary cylce Chad R. Hammerschmidt, aquatic biogeochemistry, trace metal cycling and contamination Ernest C. Hauser, near surface geophysics Robert W. Ritzi Jr., hydrogeology, hydrogeological modeling David Schmidt, (Adjunct Faculty) paleontology and sedimentary geology Doyle Watts, seismic data acquisition and processing, astrogeology, remote sensing Mathematics & Statistics DepartmentChaocheng Huang, Differential equations and its applications in geology, particle dynamics, fluid dynamics, and composite materials Thaddeus Tarpey, Statistical issues with idenitfying placebo response, pet imaging Neuroscience, Cell Biology, & PhysiologyJames Olson, Mechanisms of brain adaptation to edema, cellular volume regulation, membrane channel activation during apoptosis, blood-brain barrier water transport, biosensing of brain swelling and brain activity Dawn Wooley, Nanotechnology (therapeutics against microorganisms and biosensors), virology and microbiology (mechanisms of mutation and recombination of HIV), biosafety (safety of viral vectors in the research lab) Pharmacology and Toxicology DepartmentDavid Cool, Hypothalamic-pituitary-pancreas peptide hormone synthesis, processing, storage, secretion and function in diseases James N. McDougal, biologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling of chemical interactions with skin Mariana Morris, cardiovascular and endocrine toxicology Courtney Sulentic, immunotoxicology Physics DepartmentElliott R. Brown, radio frequency and terahertz sensor science and technology, solid-state physics and engineering Brent Foy, mathematical modeling of biological systems Allen Hunt, environmental geophysics Ivan Medvedev, molecular spectroscopy Doug Petkie, spectroscopy, chemical physics, remote sensing Sarah Tebbens, environmental geophysics Computer Science DepartmentMike Raymer, Bioinformatics, proteomics, genomics, and computational biology
Psychology DepartmentJohn Flach, Perception and action coordination in human-machine systems
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