Topic: The effect of bacterial vaginosis and vaginal washing on cervical inflammation

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Speaker:
Michelle Sabo, MD, PhD, MS
Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA

This special seminar is open to faculty, fellows, post-docs and others in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Pathology & Immunology, and Molecular Microbiology.

About the speaker

Dr. Sabo’s research is focused on better characterizing immunologic function in the female reproductive tract.  Specifically, she is working to define how differences in vaginal microbiota influence inflammatory changes in the cervix and contribute to adverse reproductive health outcomes.

Dr. Sabo has been awarded an NIH K23 Career Development grant to study how sub-optimal microbiota alter cervical dendritic cell number and function, for which sample analysis is currently underway.  Additionally, Dr. Sabo is the recipient of a CFAR New Investigator Award to evaluate differences in cervical immune cell types using RNA sequencing in women with and without bacterial vaginosis.

Clinically, Dr. Sabo has an academic interest in infections resulting from congenital (primary) immune deficiencies, and she founded a clinic to care for adult patients with proven or potential immune dysfunction.