Assistant Professor, Center for Global Health and Diseases, Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Project Title: Defining the Role of Single-Cell Heterogeneity in Bacterial Vaginosis
Award Year: 2024
Biography
Dr. Gina Lewin is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Global Health and Diseases and Department of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She completed her Ph.D. at University of Wisconsin-Madison under the mentorship of Dr. Cameron Currie, and she competed her postdoctoral training at University of Texas at Austin, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Washington University in St. Louis, primarily under the mentorship of Dr. Marvin Whiteley. Throughout her career, Dr. Lewin has used ecological and evolutionary frameworks to understand the factors that shape bacterial physiology and microbial interactions. The current focus of her lab is to understand how bacterial genomic and transcriptomic heterogeneity interplay with microbial interactions to promote health and disease in the human microbiome.