Felicitamos a la Dra Ana Rosario médico residente del programa de obstetricia y ginecología de la Escuela de Medicina de la UPR, quien presentó un proyecto de investigacion durante la Conferencia Internacional del Virus del Papiloma Human en Washinton DC. La Dra Rosario prepresentó la investigación realizada junto con las Doctoras Filipa Godoy y Josefina Romaguera…
The Godoy Lab was represented at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2023 being held in Orlando by our Ph.D. candidate Natalie M. Meléndez-Vázquez. Her research evaluated the role the gut microbiome may have in modulating the efficacy of a new cancer treatment (oncolytic viruses) against gastric cancer. Congrats Natalie! To know…
The Department of Microbiology celebrates the achievements of Dr. Dorta’s lab students receiving important scientific awards. Ph.D. student Jennifer Díaz was accepted as the 2023 Janssen Scholar of Oncology Diversity Engagement Program and Undergraduate student Alejandra Rosario (UPR-Cayey) was awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
Representation from the Microbiology Dept of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine at the 2023 National Conference of the RCMI Consortium. This activity presents research opportunities and shares new and innovative approaches, to develop the next generation of health disparities research. The RCMI center is headed by Dr Emma Repollet and showcases research…
The Department of Microbiology congratulates Miss Xaymara González, a graduate student in the Mycology lab, led by Dr Bolaños, who successfully defended her MSc thesis titled “Outdoor Fungal Spores Increase Susceptibility to COVID-19 Among Residents of San Juan and Caguas, Puerto Rico.” Comittee: Dr. Benjamin Bolaños-Rosero (mentor), Dr. Stephanie Dorta Estremera, Dr. Felix E. Rivera Mariani…
Dr. Filipa Godoy Motivada por el amor y su pasión por la biología, la portuguesa Filipa Godoy se mudó a Puerto Rico para convertirse en directora del departamento de microbiología y zoología médica de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. Su vocación por la ciencia, también la llevó a especializarse en…
Mr. Eduardo Tosado, Ph.D. candidate of the UPR Microbiome lab was the recipient of the Blue Ribbon distinction at the 2023 RCMI Consortium National Conference on April 12 – 14 2023 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA This distinction recognizes the top 10% abstracts with higher scientific impact Title: “Changes in women’s physiological and cervical disease status…
La Srta Jaleniz Suarez, fellow del programa ID GeNe y cuya mentora es la Dra Godoy (Dept Microbiologia Escuela de Medicina), participó del 2 al 4 de abril en el NHGRI Research Training & Career Development Annual Meeting, presentando su poster sobre microbioma oral y COVID-19 en Puerto Rico. Felicidades