Zhiwei is the director of the facility and comes to us from Bioinformatics Solutions Inc, a Canadian-based company which Zhiwei co-founded. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from Jilin University, P.R. China.
Dr. Livi has joined the computational biology initiative as the first liaison working in the facility. She is appointed in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UTHSCSA. She has a doctorate in Developmental Biology from Caltech, and her work focuses on analysis of transcriptional regulation. She has computational experience with annotation of cis-regulatory regions using sequence analysis tools and building realistic gene regulatory networks from gene expression data.
Carolina B. Livi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor/Research
livi@uthscsa.edu
Phone: 210-562 5270
Fax: 210-562 5292
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
