Sujatha Srinivasan, PhD
Principal Staff Scientist, Fredricks Lab
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch
Research focus includes ecology of human microbial communities, impact of bacterial interactions on health and disease, molecular diagnosis of bacterial pathogens and bacterial adaptive responses.
Education
University of New South Wales, 2001, PhD (Microbiology)
University of New South Wales, 1994, BS, Honors (Microbiology)
St. Joseph's College of Arts and Science, 1992, BS (Microbiology, Chemistry, Botany)
Research Interests
Ecology of human microbial communities
Impact of bacterial interactions on health and disease
Molecular diagnosis of bacterial pathogens
Bacterial adaptive responses
Current Projects
Cultivation-independent methods to detect and identify vaginal bacteria
The role of uncultivated bacteria in bacterial vaginosis
Novel computational tools for studying the human microbiome
Novel cultivation methods for the domestication of vaginal bacteria
Vaginal health and risk of HIV-1 acquisition in Kenyan women
Dr. Srinivasan is a member of the Fredricks Lab.