Lorraine N. Vélez-Torres Department of Microbiology & Medical Zoology University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus Extensive flooding caused by Hurricane María in Puerto Rico (PR) created favorable conditions for indoor growth of filamentous fungi. These conditions represent a public health concern as contamination by environmental fungi is associated with a higher prevalence of inflammatory…
Invited Conference Dr. Dominguez-Bello, the co-founder of the Microbiota Vault and Henry Rutgers Professor of Microbiome and Health at Rutgers University, NJ, visited the Godoy Lab at the School of Medicine Department Microbiology and offered a seminar on Wednesday, March 16. Dr. Dominguez shared the latest perspectives on the impacts of lifestyle and urbanization on…
Éramos pocos y llegó la B.1.640.2, un nombre largo para otra variante del coronavirus. Aunque aún es una variante desconocida, conviene seguirla de cerca. La doctora Loyda M. Meléndez, profesora de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Ciencias Médicas y directora del Translational Proteomics Center, de la Escuela de Medicina de la mencionada institución,…
Con la firme convicción de que el Departamento debe garantizar un grupo amplio y diverso de facultativos para responder a los cambios en el campo de la Microbiologia moderna, cada vez mas inter-disciplinaria – y enmarcado en la dificil situación presupuestaria de la UPR- me enorgullece compartirles, que nuestro Departamento cuenta con 3 nuevos facultativos…
La Dra Filipa Godoy fué conferenciante invitada del Primer Encuentro del Grupo de Investigación del Caribe y Centroamérica para la Microbiota, Probióticos y Prebióticos, hoy sabado 11 de diciembre en Bayahibe, La Romana, Republica Dominica. Participó del panel sobre el rol de microbioma y salud, donde habló de sus proyectos en Puerto Rico sobre el…
As a Puerto Rican, I know that many of our communities are still suffering from the devastation caused by Hurricane María on September 20, 2017. Post-storm headlines highlighted increased mold and asthma spikes. But difficulties breathing in Puerto Rico are not new: the island can literally take your breath away. Puerto Ricans are disproportionately affected…
Dr. Filipa Godoy speaks about the human microbiome at the 60th annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsycopharmacology, study group on Microbiome in Brain Health and Diseases Across the Lifespan: Exciting New Directions for Integrative Research in Diverse Populations The meeting took place at the Puerto Rico Convention Center San Juan, Puerto Rico, December…
The Department of Microbiology celebrates the great work of faculty and graduate students awarded 1st and 3rd places of the Robert Larus Award of the AAAS Caribbean Division annual meeting 2021. Dr. Benjamin Bolaños received an hommage to his lifelong work on aerobiology and presented an outstanding conference followed by a reactor panel of experts…
The Caribbean Division of AAAS will dedicate the 2021 annual meeting “After COVID-19:Impact of Air Quality on Human Health”, to the work of Dr. Bolaños, Director of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology Puerto Rico stations (PR-AAI). Dr. Bolaños studies the mycology and aerobiology of Puerto Rico, focusing on improving the quality of…
MAKING THE CASE FOR EQUITY IN MICROBIOME SCIENCE Microbiome research is being applied to important global challenges like pandemic preparedness, infectious disease prevention, climate change, and food security. This research is currently concentrated in a few resource-rich countries (1) which limits the field in several ways. The best solutions to these global challenges come from…
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