We enjoy working together to tackle big questions in the field of eczema genetics
Prof Sara Brown
Sara is a clinical academic dermatologist; she also loves baking cakes, gardening, or walking with a crazy Gordon setter
Dr Martina Elias
Martina is a postdoctoral research fellow and whiz in the lab; she is also a wild water swimmer and mum to the fun-filled Luca and Felix
Mona Etorban
Mona is our research technician; when not in the lab she loves walking and chatting with her friends, or playing classical guitar
Dr Luke Johnston
Luke is a postdoctoral research fellow with expertise in organoid models; outside work he enjoys the mountain bike trails around Scotland with his latest full suspension MTB
Dr Carla Roca Bayerri
Carla is a postdoctoral research fellow with expertise in molecular genetics; her weekends include forming part of a human tower in the Colla Castellera d'Edinburgh
Dr Eleanor Earp
Ellie is a PhD student on the prestigious ECAT scheme, hosted jointly in the Brown and Lowell labs; she's working with stem cells to learn about 'community effects' in skin
Emily Mortimer
Emily is on a paid internship in the lab; she has an interest in atopic eczema and is gaining new skills whilst researching gene-environment interactions
Silvia Shen
Silvia is a statistical genetics PhD student focusing on post-GWAS analysis of eczema. Apart from maths, she likes to travel and visit her family in China and Austria
Alumni
Dr William Nicholson
William was a bioinformatician in the Brown Lab (2018-2020) contributing to a long-running analysis of deep sequencing data to make sense of the repetitive genes controlling epidermal differentiation
Kim Morrison
Kim obtained her Masters in the Brown Lab (2018-2020), working on the eczema candidate gene LRRC32 aka GARP
Sheila Wright
Sheila was our lab technician and queen of the organoid skin model (2014-2020). Best wishes in your retirement Sheila - we miss you!
Nina Dawe
Nina was our lab technician from August to December 2020; sadly the commute to Edinburgh was going to be just too far, so Nina now has a job as a school laboratory technican
Michael Song
Michael is a medical student at the University of Edinburgh and possible future dermatologist! He joined our lab for a research project as part of his BMedSci in Health Sciences and we are proud to say he finished the year with a first.