Eric Stoffregen

In 2019 I was promoted to Associate Professor of Biology at Lewis-Clark State College. Within the pages of this site you can explore my research program here. My primary role is as an instructor, teaching courses in Genetics, Introductory Cell and Molecular Biology, Pathophysiology, and courses to non-science majors such as Biology in Film and Diseases and Society.

In 2014 I began my position as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, ID.

Prior to starting at LCSC, I was a SPIRE (Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research and Education) Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I did my postdoctoral research in the lab of Jeff Sekelsky. The Sekelsky lab research program uses the model organism Drosophila melanogaster to study genetic recombination. My research focused on the essential role of the protein Blm during early embryogenesis. Also as a part of the SPIRE Fellowship Program, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at North Carolina Central University, a HBCU (Historically Black College or University) located in Durham, NC.

I received my Ph.D. in Molecular and Medical Genetics from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, OR. I did my thesis research in the lab of Mathew Thayer My research project focused on a chromosome replication timing defect in human cancer cell lines.

Before entering graduate school, I worked as a research assistant in the lab of Brian Druker, MD at OHSU in Portland, OR. The Druker lab is a translational research lab focused on understanding the molecular defects in cancer in order to find better targeted therapies to treat those abnormalities. I assisted on a number of projects related to targeted therapies to treat Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) and other blood disorders.

I received my undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences and Psychology from California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, CA. I did undergraduate research there in the lab of David Marcey, Ph.D., looking at an extra eye mutation phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster.