Rate My Professor Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth Brown was a graduate student in the Developmental and Evolutionary Genetics Lab at Harvard University, serving as a co-member of the Ruvolo and Sabeti Labs. Her research interests center on human metabolic diversity across populations and the impact of selective factors such as diet, infectious disease, and environment on human evolution over the past several thousand years. She sought to understand how key life stages, including pregnancy, influenced responses to selection.

Elizabeth Brown completed her PhD in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University in April 2015. Her doctoral dissertation was titled 'Human Metabolic Adaptations: IVD and leucine catabolism'. Following her doctorate, she held a Post-Doctoral Fellow position in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University from 2015 to 2016.