La Dra. Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, directora del Departamento de Microbiología y el laboratorio de Microbiomas y catedrática de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Puerto Rico ha sido parte de un importante estudio que describe la enorme diversidad funcional de los microbios a través de un novedoso enfoque para comprender mejor las comunidades microbianas, observando la función…
Celebrating Dr Dorta (Microbiology Dept) and Dr Colbert’s (MDACC) collaboration, with this fantastic manuscript that showcases the importance of the vaginal microbiota in chemoradiation response! Please help us share this on social media https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1535610823003288
The Microbiology Dept proudly shares a manuscript just published in co-correspondence by Mitchell Rosado and Noah Mackler in Geroscience. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-023-00962-8#citeas Mitchell is a grad student of Biomedical Sciences program in Microbiology, developing his work at the Sariol (UPR) and Mackler (ASU) labs. We congratulate Micthell on this publication and the valuable mentorship of Drs Sariol and…
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…