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Dr. Eric Eisenstadt is Deputy Vice-President for Research at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). Prior to joining JCVI, Dr. Eisenstadt was a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (from 1999 to 2005) where he developed and managed research programs in biotechnology. Dr. Eisenstadt also served as a Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research (1988-1999). From 1976 to 1988 Dr. Eisenstadt taught and did research on mutagenesis and DNA repair as a member of the faculty of the Harvard University School of Public Health in the Department of Microbiology and the Laboratory of Toxicology.
Dr. Eisenstadt earned his bachelor's degree and doctorate in biology from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Following his graduate studies, he completed a one-year NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Université de Paris, Orsay, and a two-year Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Universität zu Köln. Dr. Eisenstadt was also a NIH Staff Fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NINDS.
Select Publications
Eisenstadt, E., Carlton, B.C., et al.
Gene Mutation
Methods for General and Molecular Bacteriology. 1994 May 01;: 297-316.
Smith, C. M., Koch, W. H., et al.
Sequence analysis and mapping of the Salmonella typhimurium LT2 umuDC operon
J Bacteriol. 1990 Sep 01; 172(9): 4964-78.
Eisenstadt, E., Neidhardt, J.L., et al.
Analysis of mutagenesis
Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium Cellular and Molecular Biology. 1987 Apr 01;: 1016-1033.
Foster, P. L., Eisenstadt, E., et al.
Random components in mutagenesis
Nature. 1982 Sep 23; 299(5881): 365-7.
Eisenstadt, E., Warren, A. J., et al.
Carcinogenic epoxides of benzo[a]pyrene and cyclopenta[cd]pyrene induce base substitutions via specific transversions
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1982 Mar 01; 79(6): 1945-9.
Eisenstadt, E., Gold, A.
Cyclopenta[c,d]pyrene: a highly mutagenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1978 Apr 01; 75(4): 1667-9.
Eisenstadt, E., Lange, R., et al.
Competent Bacillus subtilis cultures synthesize a denatured DNA binding activity
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1975 Jan 01; 72(1): 323-7.