Eric Seiser
E-mail: elseiser@ncsu.edu
Eric Seiser attended Franklin and Marshall College as an undergraduate, majoring in biology and minoring in computer science. After completion of his bachelor's degree he obtained a certificate in nanofabrication manufacturing technologies at Penn State University. The focus of his master's coursework at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia was bioinformatics. During this period he also worked at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the laboratory of Dr. John Maris analyzing gene expression data sets for the pediatric cancer neuroblastoma. Eric began working towards my PhD in functional genomics at NC State University in the fall of 2006.
Eric's interests lie in how both genomic polymorphisms and aberrations contribute to tumor initiation and progression in mammals and the use of the canine as a model for human cancers. In addition, he is also interested in the impact of copy number polymorphisms on phenotypic diversity in mammalian populations. His current research pursuits involve the application of our laboratory's aCGH platform to archival lymphoid tumor tissues and the genetic characterization of canine lymphoid cell lines.