Congrats to the Godoy Lab! The cervical microbiota of Hispanics living in Puerto Rico is nonoptimal regardless of HPV status @thegodoylab shines in the International Society for Microbiology Meeting in Buenos Aires Argentina. Dr Godoy presented a Plenary conference on the human microbiome and her latest work and her students Natalie Melendez and Elif Kardas…
The Microbiology Department congratulates Albersy Armina Rodríguez for obtaining a 2023 AAI Careers in Immunology Fellowship! Albersy is a grad student of the Biomedical Sciences program in Microbiology, developing her dissertation work under the mentorship of Dr Ana Espino. Together they study the a recombinant Fasciola hepatica fatty acid binding protein as an anti-inflammatory treatment…
The Microbiology Department congratulates Mitchell Rosado for obtaining an R36 Aging Research Dissertation Award to finish his Ph.D. studies, funded by NIH. Mitchell is a grad student of Biomedical Sciences program in Microbiology, developing his work at the Sariol (UPR) and Mackler (ASU) labs. He is interested in investigating how the immune system and the…
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…