Elizabeth Grice to join MVP Faculty

Elizabeth Grice, currently a post-doctoral fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the NIH, will join the Penn faculty in January 2012 as assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology.  Dr. Grice received her Ph.D. in human genetics from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  Her post-doctoral research with Dr. Julia Segre at NHGRI examined the diversity of the skin microbiome.  Dr. Grice’s present and future research investigates the contribution of the microbiome and the closely associated skin defense response to impaired cutaneous wound healing.

Some of her relevant papers are listed below:

The skin microbiome.
Grice EA and Segre JA.
Nature Reviews Microbiology. 2011. 9:244-53.

Longitudinal shift in diabetic wound microbiota correlates with prolonged defense response.
Grice EA, Snitkin ES, Yockey LJ, Bermudez DM, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Liechty KW, Segre JA.
PNAS. 2010. 107:14799-804.

Topographical and temporal diversity of the human skin microbiome.
Grice EA, Kong HH, Conlan S, Deming CB, Young AC, Davis J, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Bouffard GG, Blakesley RW, Murray PR, Green ED, Turner ML, Segre JA.
Science.  2009. 234:1190-2.

A diversity profile of the human skin microbiota.
Grice EA, Kong HH, Renaud G, Young AC, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Bouffard GG, Blakesley RW, Wolfsberg TG, Turner ML, Segre JA.
Genome Research. 2008. 18:1043-50.