Arizona State University
TEMPE, Arizona, United States
Christopher Plaisier, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering in the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Dr. Plaisier received his MS in Bioinformatics and PhD in Human Genetics from UCLA in 2009 studying the underlying genetic predispositions to lipid disorders leading to heart disease. He was a Post-doctoral fellow until 2012 and a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, WA until 2017 where he began his studies of glioblastoma multiforme. More recent work from his laboratory at ASU has focused on single-cell RNA-seq studies of quiescence in glioma stem cells and interactions between glioma stem cells with other cells in the perivascular niche.
