Welcome to the Brown Lab!

We study the multi-scale dynamics of infectious disease.

Our goal is to improve the treatment and control of infectious diseases, through a multi-scale understanding of microbial interactions.

Our approach is highly interdisciplinary, combining theory and experiment, evolution, ecology and molecular microbiology in order to understand and control the multi-scale dynamics of bacteria pathogens.

For more on our key research themes (interactions, communities, disease), click here

Latest News from the Lab:

April 2025:

• During GT’s Undergraduate Research Symposium, our undergraduate student, Charlotte W. presented her poster, Accelerating Mortality Driven by Pathogen Burden and Host Damage. Under the mentorship of Dr. Karakoc, disease progression was modeled using increasing PAO1 inoculum injected into individual Galleria wax moth larvae. Cool stuff!

• This month our lab welcomes Prisha S. as a new experimental research technician!

March 2025:

• This month our lab welcomes back Hrishi P. and Bob L. as bioinformatic data technicians!

January 2025:

• This month our lab welcomes Dr. Linnea Bavik as a postdoctorate scholar, and Natalie Miller as a rotating PhD student! The lab is expanding!

October 2024:

• This month we welcomed two new research technicians: Alex A., who will be focused in experimental support, and Rakin C., who will be focused in bioinformatic and data management.

September 2024:

• This month we welcomed Dr. Maria Martignoni to the lab as a postdoctorate scholar working on the mathematical framework of eco-evolutionary aspects of bacterial defenses such as CRISPR.

June 2024:

• This month, during ASM Microbe – held at the Georgia World Congress Center – Eli, Jennifer, and Iris were all selected to present talks in their research! Great stuff guys!