Fatima Aysha Hussain

Fatima Aysha Hussain is an Assistant Professor at Tufts University, where research focuses on microbial ecology and evolution in the vagina, particularly phage-driven evolution of vaginal bacteria and microbe-microbe interactions. Prior roles include Research Scientist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, and a Graduate Resident Tutor and Research and Teaching Assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fatima has also served as a Consultant at AoBiome, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford University, and held research positions at Tel Aviv University and the IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health, as well as the National Cancer Institute. Fatima's educational background includes a Ph.D. in Environmental Microbiology and an M.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. Research interests encompass microbial ecology, virology, bacteria-phage interactions, lysogeny, and phage-defense systems.