Dr. Robin Cooper is a professor at the Department of Biology, University of Kentucky. He received his B.S. (double major—Chemistry and Zoology) and Ph.D. in Physiology at Texas Tech Health Sciences in 1983 and 1989, respectively. His postdoctoral training was in Basel, Switzerland, and in Toronto, Canada. In 1996, he became an assistant professor and is now a professor at the University of Kentucky. He considers himself as an educator and researcher in the area of comparative physiology with an emphasis on neurobiology. Additionally, he enjoys outreach activities with middle and high school science teachers as well as their students and the public. His accomplishments in regard to research have mainly focused more recently on the modulation of synaptic transmission and behaviors using invertebrate models (crayfish and Drosophila). His graduate students (PhD and MS) have been successfully obtaining good postdoctoral positions or forms of employment. He strongly encourages students to attend local, national and international meetings to present their research and interact with faculty and students at other institutions (>850 abstracts for posters or oral presentations since at the Univ. of Kentucky).