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
El pasado 31 de marzo la Vicepresidencia de Investigación e Innovación de la Universidad de Puerto Rico y latinasteam.com reconocieron las contribuciones científicas las Doctoras Emma Fernandez Repollet y Filipa Godoy en una cerimonia en Rio Piedras, titulada “simposio El Poder de la Mujer en la Ciencia”, celebrando la trayectoria de mujeres destacadas en ciencia,…
Given the breadth of the biological field and of the available UPR mentors, RaMP-UP scholars will be exposed to a broad spectrum of research topics, that includes Neuroscience, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Behavior, Ecology, Development, Cell and Molecular Biology, Evolution, among others. MENTORS This ensemble of research mentor is a heterogeneous group of investigators that range from…
On behalf of the Microbiology Dept, I congratulate Dr. Sariol and his team, for their latest publication in Nature Communications on the first proof of concept of a bivalent dengue vaccine (against two serotypes DENV2 and 4). This is of high importance to Puerto Rico, as it could simplify the vaccine design and, in the…
Dr. Godoy Chair of the Microbiology Department of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine shared the latest on human Microbiome research for cancer and inflammatory disease prevention, at the 2023 annual meeting of the American College of Physicians PR chapter “Trends in Internal Medicine”, la concha renaissance hotel San Juan, PR #healthcare #medicine…