Staff Research Associate

Dillon Brownell obtained his MS in bioinformatics from the University of Oregon. Following this, he worked with the Ajami lab at Oregon Health and Science University for three years, where he performed single-cell RNA, spatial transcriptomics, and spatial proteomics analyses to interrogate inner ear resident immune populations, the role that microglia play in Alzheimer’s disease, and immune cell dynamics during ALS progression in both the spine and brain. Dillon is interested in how the spatial organization of cells changes in response to disease and over the course of life. Now with the Crooks lab, he is working on using a combination of single-cell and spatial omics data to better understand thymic development. Outside of research, he enjoys movies, card games, and nature (especially along the Pacific Northwest coast).