Dr. Anna Seekatz Clemson University, USA

Dr. Anna Seekatz completed her undergraduate studies in molecular biology at Western Washington University and her PhD in microbiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Her graduate studies under the advisement of Dr. Claire Fraser focused on the role of the gut microbiome in Shigella vaccine efficacy. As... read morea postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Vincent Young at the University of Michigan, she investigated interactions between the pathogen Clostridioides difficile and commensal gut anaerobes during fecal microbiota transplantation. Her lab at Clemson University is focused on characterizing commensal gut Clostridial to improve manipulation of the gut microbiota for health.