Erin Boyle Anderson is a patent agent in the San Diego office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the patents and innovations practice. Erin assists with the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the fields of biology and biotechnology.

Her graduate work focused on understanding the genetic and developmental factors regulating the migration of fin precursors in zebrafish embryos. This work involved using tools from cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, and the creation of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats mutants. Prior to graduate school, Erin also worked with Drosophila genetics and plant genetics and molecular biology.