Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 3 479 7571
- benedict.seo@otago.ac.nz
University Links
- Position
- Senior Lecture, Head of the Oral Pathology Centre, Deputy Head of Department - Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences
- Department
- Department of Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences
- Research summary
- Immunopathogenesis of oral diseases, oral and maxillofacial pathology
- Teaching
- Convenor of the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) programme.
- BDS3 Chair
- Coordinator of PGDipClinDent (Oral Pathology).
- Coordinator of DENT362 (Pathogenesis of Oral Diseases).
- Teaching: DENT262, DENT362, DENT462, DENT531, DENT552, DENT552, DENT70, DENT572, DEOH101, DEOH201, DTEC111 and DTEC403.
- Clinical and research supervision for DClinDent and PhD
- Memberships
- International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathologists.
- International Association for Dental Research.
- New Zealand Dental Association.
- Fellow - International College of Dentists.
- Clinical
- Head of the Oral Pathology Centre, a national specialised oral and maxillofacial pathology diagnostic service for New Zealand.
- Registered specialist in oral pathology.
Research
Dr Seo investigates the pathogenesis of oral cancer, odontogenic lesions and immune-mediated oral diseases, with a particular focus on unfolded protein response (UPR) and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. Techniques such as qRT2-PCR, IHC, histochemistry, western blot, cell culture and in vitro assays (viability, caspase-based, TUNEL) are employed in his research. He has an active research partnership with the University of Malaysia, Oral Cancer Research and Coordination Centre and the National University of Malaysia, as well as with Dunedin Public Hospital.
Dr Seo is also a reviewer for the Journal of Periodontal Research, Pathology and BMC Oral Health.
He received the Oral Presentation Award from the International Association of Oral Pathologists (IAOP), Elman Poole Fellowship, International Association for Dental Research-Colgate Postgraduate Award and Sir Thomas Hunter Scholarship, amongst others.
Additional details
- Editorial Board - BMC Oral Health.
- Editorial Board - BDJ Open.