Dr Godoy, was the plenary speaker of the 3rd day of the International Society for Microbial Ecology Latin American meeting @ismelat23 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She also moderated the human Microbiome session in the meeting.
Un estudio realizado por el Recinto de Ciencias Médicas reveló la relación entre la microbiota cérvicovaginal y la prevalencia de Virus del Papiloma Humano en mujeres residentes de Puerto Rico con riesgo de cáncer cervical. La investigación, dirigida por la Dra. Filipa Godoy, quien dirige el Departamento de Microbiología y el laboratorio de Microbiomas, sugiere que la composición…
The Microbiology Dept celebrates the successful presentations by PhD students Albersy Armina (poster) and María Del Mar Figueroa Gispert (oral) at the ASM microbe 2023. The meeting was held in Houston, Texas from June 15-19 and is the largest microbial sciences gathering in the world. Drs Ana Espino and Raul Rivera attended the meeting and are shown here…
Congratulations to the Microbiology Dept students who participated in the annual meeting of the Puerto Rico Society of Microbiologists. The Puerto Rico Society of Microbiologists Annual Meeting and Student Symposium 2023: Harnessing the Changing Microbial Nature was held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico June 8-9, 2023. All students were recipients of the…
El Departamento de Microbiología celebra los primeros premios recibidos por parte de Facultad y estudiantes de Alliance. (The Hispanic Alliance for Clinical and Translational Research National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) U54GM133807. La Dra Filipa Godoy recibió el premio de productividad cientifica; la Dra Stephanie Dorta recibió mejor proyecto piloto, la Dra Yisel Cantres recibió mejor…
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…