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On-Going and Recent Activities:
Current Interests: DNA Replication Origins; Evolutionary Relationships of Satellite DNAs.
Chair of the Pre-Medical & Pre-Dental Advisory Committee since its inception in 1973.
Coordinator of the Nuclear Medicine Technology (NMT) Program since 1994.
Co-author of "A Proposal to Offer a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biotechnology", 1992. The Biotechnology Program was instituted in 1994.
Co-sponsor with Richard G. Hunt of the Workshop on Education for Sustainability held at WSC on March 27, 1997, presented by Second Nature.
Current Memberships:
American Chemical Society
New England Association of Chemistry Teachers
Tri Beta The Biological Honor Society
Professional Activities:
Central Massachusetts Section of the American Chemical Society:Chairman-Elect (Program Chairman) 1982 and Chairman 1983-84.Co-coordinator of the ACS sponsored Conference on the Role of Chemistry in the Emerging Biotechnology Industry held March 30-31, 1984, at the Sheraton Inn, Boxborough, Massachusetts.
Workshop: "Synthesis of Proteinoids" presented at the 45th Summer Conference of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers, Southeastern Massachusetts University, August 18, 1983.
Selected Publications:
"Complete Nucleotide Sequence of a Sea Urchin Actin Gene", Nucleic Acids Research 10, 4081 (1982), by Alan D. Cooper and William R. Crain, Jr.
"The Preferential Binding of Nuclear Matrix Proteins for a Restriction Fragment Containing an Origin of Replication", Abstract, Cell Differentiation 16, 31S (1985), by L.H. Matsumoto and A.D. Cooper.
"The Sequence of a Sea Urchin Muscle Gene Suggests a Gene Conversion with a Cytoskeletal Actin Gene", Journal of Molecular Evolution 25, 37-45 (1987) by W.R. Crain, Jr., M.F. Bosnar, A.D. Cooper, D.S. Durica, A. Nagy, and D. Steffen.
"DNA Bending in Regulation", Magill's Survey of Science: Life Science, p. 679, Salem Press, Inc., 1991.
"Electrophoresis: An Overview", Magill's Survey of Science: Life Science, p. 758, Salem Press, Inc., 1991.
"Transposable Elements", Magill's Survey of Science: Life Science, p. 2654, Salem Press, Inc., 1991.
"Issues and Challenges in Developing an Environmental Program in Higher Education", Second International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment: Proceedings, 1996, by Richard G. Hunt and Alan D. Cooper.
Courses Taught at Worcester State College including Division of Graduate and Continuing Education:
CH 110-111 Introduction to General, Organic and Biochemistry I & II (Lecture and Laboratory)
CH 120-121 General Chemistry I & II (Lecture and Laboratory)
CH 240 Pharmacology (Lecture)
CH 320 Environmental Chemistry (Lecture)
CH 410 Biochemistry I (Lecture and Laboratory)
CH 411 Biochemistry II (Lecture and Laboratory)
BI 371 Molecular Biology (Lecture and Laboratory)
BI 930 Biological Chemistry (Lecture)
BI 935 Biochemical Techniques (Lecture and Laboratory)