As the Director for two projects funded by the National Institute of Health's (NIH) Human Microbiome Project, Jennifer Fettweis coordinates the Vaginal Human Microbiome Project and the Multi-‘Omic Microbiome Study-Pregnancy Initiative. She founded the Research Alliance for Microbiome Science (RAMS) Registry at VCU, which houses a participant registry and a biorepository, to promote collaboration among researchers and sharing and reuse of data and samples. In her talk at TEDxRVAWomen, she explains the research in her project which includes host-microbiome interactions in women’s health with a focus on understanding how these interactions impact women’s health, pregnancy outcomes and vertical transmission of the microbiome from mother to infant.

Jennifer M. Fettweis, PhD is the Project Director for the Vaginal Microbiome Consortium at Virginia Commonwealth University and Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity (CSBC), and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She coordinates two projects funded through the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Human Microbiome Project: the Vaginal Human Microbiome Project and the Multi-‘Omic Microbiome Study-Pregnancy Initiative. Her research interests include host-microbiome interactions in women’s health with a focus on understanding how these interactions impact women’s health, pregnancy outcomes and vertical transmission of the microbiome from mother to infant.

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