Please Join us for a Levy CIMAR seminar from Fatima Aysha Hussain, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Biology at Tufts studying the ecology and evolution of the vaginal microbiome. Dr. Hussain will present on “Designing Microbial Therapeutics for Vaginal Health” on May 29^th at 12 noon in M&V 412 and by Zoom (details to come).

Dr. Hussain is interested in microbe-microbe interactions and phage-driven evolution of bacteria. She and her lab investigate how phages drive evolution of resistance in their hosts, how bacteriocins and other antimicrobial compounds shape the bacterial community, and how phage therapy might be leveraged in this ecosystem to treat microbial syndromes such as bacterial vaginosis. Dr. Hussain and team aim to use their work to design ecologically-informed microbial therapeutics for women’s health.

Previously, Dr. Hussain focused on clinical applications of this work—investigating the potential of newly-designed probiotics and vaginal microbiota transplantations to treat recurrent bacterial vaginosis.

You can learn more about Dr. Hussain and her lab via her website.