Dr. Coop is the second liaison to join the Computational Biology Initiative. He holds an appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UTHSCSA. He has a doctorate in computational neuroscience from the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University. He is experienced in the development and analysis of biologically plausible models of both single neurons and neural circuits. While a Research Associate at the Rockefeller University he developed Information Theoretic algorithms for the analysis of biological data ranging from nucleotide sequences and micro array data to the behavior of freely moving animals such a nematodes, fruit flies, and mice.
Allan D. Coop, PhD
Instructor and Liaison
coop@uthscsa.edu
(210) 458-5863