Dr. Filipa Godoy Vitorino

Associate Professor

Contact Info

filipa.godoy@upr.edu
Microbiome Lab
Dept. Microbiology and Medical Zoology
Univ Puerto Rico School of Medicine
Medical Sciences Campus
787-758-2525 exts 2096/7069/1361

Education

B.S Biology (Licentiate’s degree before EU’s Bologna reforms), Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, 2002
EU Socrates Erasmus Programme Fellow, Center for Marine Biotechnology, Applied Algology group, University of Las Palmas (ULPGC), Canary Islands, Spain, 2002.
Ph.D. Biology (Microbial Ecology), University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 2009
Postdoctoral Fellow in Metagenomics, National Science Foundation. US DOE – Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, 2009-2012

Recent News

New Publication ad-honorem Faculty Dr. Joel Vega Rodríguez
September 26, 2024

Insights into Gut Dysbiosis: Inflammatory Diseases, Obesity, and Restoration Approaches
September 25, 2024

Sister Isolina Ferré Award 2024
September 17, 2024

Readers’ Choice 2024: Acta Parasitologica’s Key Contributions to SDG3
August 18, 2024

Shifts in the gut microbiota of sea urchin Diadema antillarum associated with the 2022 disease outbreak
July 1, 2024

ACADEMIC PROFILES

ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-1880-0498
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipa-godoy-vitorino-60016615/
Bibliography: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1HkRwEN9HRXko/bibliography/public/
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Filipa-Godoy-Vitorino
Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vkcHVwEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/2030504/filipa-godoy-vitorino/
Lab Godoy: https://www.the-microbiologist.com/careers/lab-godoy/501.article

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Find a summary of the Godoy Lab research, at the-microbiologist.com:

https://www.the-microbiologist.com/careers/lab-godoy/501.article

MISSION AND FIELD OF INTEREST

GODOY Lab’s Mission

The UPR Microbiome Lab’s mission, is to translate microbial ecology to improve human health, and empower education in the microbial sciences, by studying microbiomes -including dynamics and functions of microbial communities. We aim at understanding the coevolution of microbes with their hosts, the symbiotic mechanisms underlying microbial community establishment, resilience, and persistence, as well as the processes of dysbiosis leading to disease phenotypes. By integrating multiple Omics approaches and scientific fields, we intend to reveal multi-kingdom biodiversity underlying microbiome-driven malignancies. We work at the interface of ecology, physiology, and bioinformatics to address broad questions on host-microbiome interactions. Our lab’s commitment is also to educate about the microbiome, and propose ways to conserve microbes for the benefit of future generations. Our lab favors close mentoring, scholarship and teamwork, while offering appropriate opportunities for independent work and recognition.

We pioneered the use of metagenomics and bioinformatic tools to study the human microbiome as well as unique tropical host-microbe interactions in the Caribbean.

Our laboratory investigates microbiomes in a variety of contexts using various Omic techniques to understand the co-evolution, transmission, and functions of microbial-host symbioses. Filipa’s group mission is to translate microbial ecology to improve human health and ecosystem conservation while empowering education in the microbial sciences. We support and collaborate with students and faculty across the world in the development of microbiome approaches.

Field of Interest: Microbiome, Microbial Community Ecology, Metagenomics, women’s health, chronic diseases, cancer; conservation of biodiversity.

Current areas of research include:

Studying vaginal microbiome dynamics for cervical cancer prevention (2U54MD007600-36 (8538)); 2) Understand the association between gut microbial communities and oncolytic viral therapy efficacy against solid tumors (U54 CA096297-17); Oral microbiome and its associations with HPV infections, periodontitis and COVID syndromes; Gut and oral microbiome and Alzheimer’s disease; microbiome of native bees of Puerto Rico; The microbiome of leatherback turtles in the Caribbean; Microbiome in soil and crustaceans of mangroves; Microbiomes associated to sea urchins across the island of Puerto Rico; Mining for lignocellulose carbohydrate-active enzymes in Puerto Rican soils

Active collaborations:

Identification the role of oral microbiota in antitumor immune responses and tumor development during PD-1 blockade treatment in oropharyngeal carcinoma (PR);
effects of heat stress on the microbiome of the reproductive tract of Wild type and Slick cows (PR);
microbial communities of the plastivore larvae Galleria mellonella consuming different types of plastics (Argentina);
Gut microbiomes of wild birds (Venezuela);
Gut microbiomes of marine mammals and turtles;
Gut microbiomes and mental illness (PR);
Gut microbiome in a sample of Hispanic patients with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PR) and other related to cancer in Hispanic communities

Selected Peer Reviewed Publications
Book Chapters / Technical Reports
Selected Honors/Awards
People and Events
Meet our Team
Former Lab Students

List of Publications (2022-present):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1HkRwEN9HRXko/bibliography/public/

Vélez-Torres LN, Bolaños-Rosero B, Godoy–Vitorino F, Rivera-Mariani FE, Maestre JP, Kinney K, Cavallin H. 2022. Hurricane María drives increased indoor proliferation of filamentous fungi in San Juan, Puerto Rico: a two-year culture-based approach. PeerJ 10:e12730 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12730 PMID 35261816
Vera-Urbina, F.; Dos Santos-Torres, M.F.; Godoy–Vitorino, F.; Torres-Hernández, B.A. The Gut Microbiome May Help Address Mental Health Disparities in Hispanics: A Narrative Review. Microorganisms 2022, 10, 763. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/10/4/763
Lee, S., Zhang, A., Acevedo Flores,M.,Ángel Solá, D., Cao, L., Bolanos-Rosero, B. Wang, L., Godoy–Vitorino, Rosario Matos, N., Wang, L. 2022 Prenatal exposure to Hurricane Maria is associated with an altered infant nasal microbiome, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global June 02, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacig.2022.05.001
Castañeda-Avila MA, Oramas Sepúlveda CJ, Pérez CM, Ramos-Cartagena JM, Acosta Pagán K, Pérez-Santiago J, Godoy–Vitorino F, Ortiz AP. Sex and educational attainment differences in HPV knowledge and vaccination awareness among unvaccinated-sexually active adults in Puerto Rico. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2022 Jun 13:2077065. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2022.2077065. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35695750.
Ruiz Barrionuevo JM, Vilanova-Cuevas B, Alvarez A, Martín E, Malizia A, Galindo-Cardona A, de Cristóbal RE, Occhionero MA, Chalup A, Monmany-Garzia AC, Godoy–Vitorino F. The Bacterial and Fungal Gut Microbiota of the Greater Wax Moth, Galleria mellonella L. Consuming Polyethylene and Polystyrene. Front Microbiol. 2022 Jul 5;13:918861. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.918861. PMID: 35865934; PMCID: PMC9294514.
Reynoso-García, Miranda-Santiago, Meléndez-Vázquez, Acosta-Pagán, Sánchez-Rosado, Díaz-Rivera, Rosado-Quiñones, Acevedo-Márquez, Cruz-Roldán, Tosado-Rodríguez, Figueroa-Gispert and Godoy–Vitorino, A complete guide to human microbiomes: body niches, transmission, development, dysbiosis and restoration, Front. Syst. Biol., 22 July 2022 Sec. Integrative Genetics and Genomics, 22 july 2022, https://doi.org/10.3389/fsysb.2022.951403 **All authors are grad students in human microbiome class
Nguyen TT, Shin DH, Sohoni S, Singh SK, Rivera-Molina Y, Jiang H, Fan X, Gumin J, Lang FF, Alvarez-Breckenridge C, Godoy-Vitorino F, Zhu L, Zheng WJ, Zhai L, Ladomersky E, Lauing KL, Alonso MM, Wainwright DA, Gomez-Manzano C, Fueyo J. Reshaping the tumor microenvironment with oncolytic viruses, positive regulation of the immune synapse, and blockade of the immunosuppressive oncometabolic circuitry. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2022;10:e004935. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2022-004935, PMID: 35902132
Dickerson, F., Dilmore, A.H., Godoy–Vitorino, F., Nguyen, T.T., Paulus, M., Pinto-Tomas, A.A., Moya-Roman, C., Zuniga-Chaves, I., Severance, E.G., Jeste, D.V., 2022. The Microbiome and Mental Health Across the Lifespan, in: Curr Topics Behav Neurosci. doi:10.1007/7854_2022_384, PMID: 35947353
Sahana Kuthyar, Karli Watson, Shi Huang, Lauren J.N. Brent, Michael Platt, Julie Horvath, Janis Gonzalez, Melween Martínez, Filipa Godoy–Vitorino, Rob Knight, Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello*, Katherine R. Amato* Limited microbiome differences in captive and semi-wild primate populations consuming similar diets, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, fiac098, 01 September 2022 https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiac098 PMID: 36047944
Ortiz Ana P., Acosta-Pagán Kimil T., Oramas-Sepúlveda Carla, Castañeda-Avila Maira A., Vilanova-Cuevas Brayan, Ramos-Cartagena Jeslie M., Vivaldi José A., Pérez-Santiago Josué, Pérez Cynthia M., Godoy-Vitorino Filipa; Oral microbiota and periodontitis severity among Hispanic adults, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 12,2022, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2022.965159 DOI=10.3389/fcimb.2022.965159, ISSN=2235-2988 PMID: 36452304
J. Mattei, C.B. Díaz-Alvarez, C. Alfonso, H.J. O’Neill, C.F. Ríos-Bedoya, V.S. Malik, F. Godoy-Vitorino, C. Cheng, D. Spiegelman, W.C. Willett, F.B. Hu, J.F. Rodríguez-Orengo, Design and Implementation of a Culturally-Tailored Randomized Pilot Trial: Puerto Rican Optimized Mediterranean-like Diet (PROMED), Current Developments in Nutrition,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2022.100022. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2475299122145221?via%3Dihub
Rodríguez-Barreras, R. Dominicci-Maura, A.;Tosado-Rodríguez, E.L.;Godoy-Vitorino, F. The Epibiotic Microbiota of Wild Caribbean Sea Urchin Spines Is Species Specific. Microorganisms 2023, 11(2), 391;
doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11020391. PubMed PMID: 36838357; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9966300
García-Amado MA, Rudolf CA, Fuentes-Fuentes MdM, Chorna N, Martínez LM, Godoy-Vitorino F. 2023. Bacterial composition along the digestive tract of the Horned Screamer (Anhima cornuta), a tropical herbivorous bird. PeerJ 11:e14805 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14805 PMID: 36815987
Eduardo Tosado-Rodríguez, Loyda B. Mendez, Ana M Espino, Stephanie Dorta-Estremera, Edna E. Aquino, Josefina Romaguera, Filipa Godoy-Vitorino Inflammatory cytokines and a diverse cervicovaginal microbiome are associated with cervical disease in Hispanics living in Puerto Rico medRxiv 2023.04.06.23288256; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.06.23288256 (Not peer reviewed).
Daniela Vargas-Robles, Josefina Romaguera, Ian Alvarado-Velez, Laura Reguero-Cadilla, Anelisse Dominicci-Maura, Eduardo Tosado-Rodríguez, Maria Sanchez, Magaly Martinez-Ferrer, Larry J. Forney, Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, The cervical microbiota of Hispanics living in Puerto Rico is highly volatile and dominated by L. iners regardless of HPV status, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.05.539619v1 (not peer reviewed)
Kardas E, González-Rosario AM, Giray T, Ackerman JD, Godoy-Vitorino F. Gut microbiota variation of a tropical oil-collecting bee species far exceeds that of the honeybee. Front Microbiol. 2023 May 17;14:1122489. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1122489. PMID: 37266018; PMCID: PMC10229882.
Sánchez-Gallego, J. , Atencio, L., Pérez, J., Dupuy, O. , Díaz-Ferguson, E., & Godoy-Vitorino, F. (2023). Assessment of Vibrio populations in a transect of Rhizophora mangle in Punta Galeta, Panamá: culture-dependent analyses reveal biotechnological applications. Revista De Biología Tropical/ International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation, Published August 4, 2023, 71 (1), e50983. https://doi.org/10.15517/rev.biol.trop.v71i1.50983 https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/50983
Vargas-Robles D, Romaguera J, Alvarado-Velez I, Tosado-Rodríguez E, Dominicci-Maura A, Sanchez M, Wiggin KJ, Martinez-Ferrer M, Gilbert JA, Forney LJ, Godoy-Vitorino F. The cervical microbiota of Hispanics living in Puerto Rico is nonoptimal regardless of HPV status. mSystems. 2023 Aug 31;8(4):e0035723. doi: 10.1128/msystems.00357-23. Epub 2023 Aug 3. PMID: 37534938; PMCID: PMC10469956.
Pavlopoulos GA, Baltoumas FA, Liu S, Selvitopi O, Camargo AP, Nayfach S, Azad A, Roux S, Call L, Ivanova NN, Chen IM, Paez-Espino D, Karatzas E; Novel Metagenome Protein Families Consortium; Iliopoulos I, Konstantinidis K, Tiedje JM, Pett-Ridge J, Baker D, Visel A, Ouzounis CA, Ovchinnikov S, Buluç A, Kyrpides NC. Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics. Nature. 2023 Oct;6 22 (7983): 594-602. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06583-7 . Epub 2023 Oct 11. PMID: 37821698; PMCID: PMC10584684. **Co-author as part of the Novel Metagenome Protein Families Consortium
Tosado-Rodríguez E, Mendez LB, Espino AM, Dorta-Estremera S, Aquino EE, Romaguera J, Godoy-Vitorino F. Inflammatory cytokines and a diverse cervicovaginal microbiota associate with cervical dysplasia in a cohort of Hispanics living in Puerto Rico. PLoS One. 2023 Dec 8;18(12):e0284673. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284673. PMID: 38064478.
Vazquez-Medina A, Rodriguez-Trujillo N, Ayuso-Rodriguez K, Marini-Martinez F, Angeli-Morales R, Caussade-Silvestrini G, Godoy-Vitorino F, Chorna N. Exploring the interplay between running exercises, microbial diversity, and tryptophan metabolism along the microbiota-gut-brain axis. Front Microbiol. 2024 Jan 22;15:1326584. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1326584. PMID: 38318337; PMCID: PMC10838991.
Vélez-Torres LN, Bolaños-Rosero B, Godoy–Vitorino F, Rivera-Mariani FE, Maestre JP, Kinney K, Cavallin H. 2022. Hurricane María drives increased indoor proliferation of filamentous fungi in San Juan, Puerto Rico: a two-year culture-based approach. PeerJ 10:e12730 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12730 PMID 35261816
Vera-Urbina, F.; Dos Santos-Torres, M.F.; Godoy–Vitorino, F.; Torres-Hernández, B.A. The Gut Microbiome May Help Address Mental Health Disparities in Hispanics: A Narrative Review. Microorganisms 2022, 10, 763. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/10/4/763
Lee, S., Zhang, A., Acevedo Flores,M.,Ángel Solá, D., Cao, L., Bolanos-Rosero, B. Wang, L., Godoy–Vitorino, Rosario Matos, N., Wang, L. 2022 Prenatal exposure to Hurricane Maria is associated with an altered infant nasal microbiome, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global June 02, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacig.2022.05.001
Castañeda-Avila MA, Oramas Sepúlveda CJ, Pérez CM, Ramos-Cartagena JM, Acosta Pagán K, Pérez-Santiago J, Godoy–Vitorino F, Ortiz AP. Sex and educational attainment differences in HPV knowledge and vaccination awareness among unvaccinated-sexually active adults in Puerto Rico. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2022 Jun 13:2077065. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2022.2077065. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35695750.
Ruiz Barrionuevo JM, Vilanova-Cuevas B, Alvarez A, Martín E, Malizia A, Galindo-Cardona A, de Cristóbal RE, Occhionero MA, Chalup A, Monmany-Garzia AC, Godoy–Vitorino The Bacterial and Fungal Gut Microbiota of the Greater Wax Moth, Galleria mellonella L. Consuming Polyethylene and Polystyrene. Front Microbiol. 2022 Jul 5;13:918861. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.918861. PMID: 35865934; PMCID: PMC9294514.
Reynoso-García, Miranda-Santiago, Meléndez-Vázquez, Acosta-Pagán, Sánchez-Rosado, Díaz-Rivera, Rosado-Quiñones, Acevedo-Márquez, Cruz-Roldán, Tosado-Rodríguez, Figueroa-Gispert and Godoy–Vitorino, A complete guide to human microbiomes: body niches, transmission, development, dysbiosis and restoration, Front. Syst. Biol., 22 July 2022 Sec. Integrative Genetics and Genomics, 22 july 2022, https://doi.org/10.3389/fsysb.2022.951403 **All authors are grad students in human microbiome class
Nguyen TT, Shin DH, Sohoni S, Singh SK, Rivera-Molina Y, Jiang H, Fan X, Gumin J, Lang FF, Alvarez-Breckenridge C, Godoy-Vitorino F, Zhu L, Zheng WJ, Zhai L, Ladomersky E, Lauing KL, Alonso MM, Wainwright DA, Gomez-Manzano C, Fueyo J. Reshaping the tumor microenvironment with oncolytic viruses, positive regulation of the immune synapse, and blockade of the immunosuppressive oncometabolic circuitry. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2022;10:e004935. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2022-004935, PMID: 35902132
Dickerson, F., Dilmore, A.H., Godoy–Vitorino, F., Nguyen, T.T., Paulus, M., Pinto-Tomas, A.A., Moya-Roman, C., Zuniga-Chaves, I., Severance, E.G., Jeste, D.V., 2022. The Microbiome and Mental Health Across the Lifespan, in: Curr Topics Behav Neurosci. doi:10.1007/7854_2022_384, PMID: 35947353
Sahana Kuthyar, Karli Watson, Shi Huang, Lauren J.N. Brent, Michael Platt, Julie Horvath, Janis Gonzalez, Melween Martínez, Filipa Godoy–Vitorino, Rob Knight, Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello*, Katherine R. Amato* Limited microbiome differences in captive and semi-wild primate populations consuming similar diets, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, fiac098, 01 September 2022 https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiac098 PMID: 36047944
Ortiz Ana P., Acosta-Pagán Kimil T., Oramas-Sepúlveda Carla, Castañeda-Avila Maira A., Vilanova-Cuevas Brayan, Ramos-Cartagena Jeslie M., Vivaldi José A., Pérez-Santiago Josué, Pérez Cynthia M., Godoy-Vitorino Filipa; Oral microbiota and periodontitis severity among Hispanic adults, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 12,2022, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2022.965159 DOI=10.3389/fcimb.2022.965159, ISSN=2235-2988 PMID: 36452304
Mattei, C.B. Díaz-Alvarez, C. Alfonso, H.J. O’Neill, C.F. Ríos-Bedoya, V.S. Malik, F. Godoy-Vitorino, C. Cheng, D. Spiegelman, W.C. Willett, F.B. Hu, J.F. Rodríguez-Orengo, Design and Implementation of a Culturally-Tailored Randomized Pilot Trial: Puerto Rican Optimized Mediterranean-like Diet (PROMED), Current Developments in Nutrition,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2022.100022. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2475299122145221?via%3Dihub
Bolaños-Rosero, B., Hernández-González, X., Cavallín-Calanche, H.E. Godoy-Vitorino, F., Vesper, F.Impact of Hurricane Maria on mold levels in the homes of Piñones, Puerto Rico. Air Qual Atmos Health (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11869-022-01297-7

SELECTED HONORS/AWARDS

2024 2024 AACR Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award (MICR) – Mentees Anelisse Domini-Maura (study of anal HPV and microbiome, MPH student); Natalie Melendez Vazquez (oncolytic viruses and microbiome)
2023 Best Overall Scientific Abstract Award, Board of Directors, Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), “Cervical meta-omic analyses identify tyramine metabolism in women with dysplasia”, Marriot Marquis Houston, Texas, May 7 2023
2023 “Hispanic Alliance Researcher Productivity Award” 2023 12th Scientific day, Embassy Suites Hilton San Juan Hotel & Casino May 3 2023; https://alliance.rcm.upr.edu/es/scientific-day-2023/
2023 Influential women in STEAM award / Mujeres Destacadas en STEAM, Vice Presidency of Research, University of Puerto Rico /Vicepresidencia de Investigación de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 4th Symposium “The Power of Women in Sciences”, Univ Puerto Rico Rio Piedras, CN 142, San Juan PR, March 31st 2022
2023 Honorary member Applied Microbiology International (AMI – former International Society for Applied Microbiology) (nomination)
2023 Sigma Xi Full member (nomination), Sigma Xi Society (2023-present)
2023 Best Overall Scientific Abstract Award, Board of Directors, Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), “Cervical meta-omic analyses identify tyramine metabolism in women with dysplasia”, Marriot Marquis Houston, Texas, May 7 2023
2023 “Hispanic Alliance Researcher Productivity Award”
2023 12th Scientific day, Embassy Suites Hilton San Juan Hotel & Casino May 3 2023 https://alliance.rcm.upr.edu/es/scientific-day-2023/2023 Influential women in STEAM award / Mujeres Destacadas en STEAM, Vice Presidency of Research, University of Puerto Rico /Vicepresidencia de Investigación de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 4th Symposium “The Power of Women in Sciences”, Univ Puerto Rico Rio Piedras, CN 142, San Juan PR, March 31^st
20222022 Honorary Fellow member, Applied Microbiology International / Society for Applied Microbiology (UK) https://sfam.org.uk/
2021 Godoy’s Microbiome Lab, Featured by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM): Microbiology Is … Your Microbiome, Your Health https://asm.org/Videos/Microbiology-Is-Your-Microbiome,-Your-Health
2020-present President, American Association for the advancement of Science (AAAS) Caribbean Division https://www.aaascd.pr/
2020 Portrayed in Ciencia Puerto Rico, Seeds of Success ”Women in STEM” collection https://www.cienciapr.org/es/seeds-success/filipa-godoy-vitorino
2020-present Mentor Graduate Women in Science, Puerto Rico Chapter
2019 Distinguished Faculty, UPR Medical Sciences, Associate Deanship for Biomedical Sciences and Graduate Programs, San Juan Puerto Rico, May 14 2019 (elected by majority graduate student votes)
2019 First place Award, Outstanding oral presentation by a Researcher, Puerto Rico Clinical Research Summit: Connecting the World, Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel & Casino, San Juan Puerto Rico, May 10 2019

BOOK CHAPTERS / TECHNICAL REPORTS

Godoy-Vitorino, F. and Toledo-Hernandez, C. (2018) Reef building corals as a tool for climate change research in the genomics era. In M. Kloc, J. Z. Kubiak (eds.), Marine Organisms as Model Systems in Biology and Medicine, Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation 65,Chapter 23 , ISBIN 978-3-319-92485-4, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92486-1_23
National Library of Medicine (U.S.). Board of Regents, A platform for biomedical discovery and data-powered health : National Library of Medicine strategic plan 2017-2027 [Bethesda, Md.] : U.S. Dept.of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, (2018) pp39, NLM ID: 101721534 [Book] Co-Author. My working group aimed to build a report (10-year plan) with recommended strategies for NLM to facilitate and accelerate discovery inbiomedical discovery and translational science.
Dominguez-Bello M., Godoy-Vitorino F. (2013) Infant Microbiome. In: Nelson K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY Chapter: 304271, pp.280- 285, DOI: 1007/978-1-4899-7475-4_405

SELECTED HONORS/AWARDS

Awardee Advanced Research Grant, Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust 2019
Editorial Board Member: Gynecology and Pelvic Medicine (ISSN 2617-4499; Gynecol Pelvic Med; GPM; gpm.amegroups.com) http://gpm.amegroups.com/user/view/82041
Chair, Human Microbiome Session, 1^st ISME Latin America Meeting, Valparaiso, Chile, September 11-14 2019, https://isme-la2019.org
Member of the Graduate Committee of the UPR School of Medicine, Microbiology and Medical Zoology Graduate Program 2019- present
Member of the UPR-Medical Sciences Campus, Institutional Review Board (IRB) (2019-2021)
Participant Member “The Cancer Systems Microbiome Innovation Lab” April 29- May 3^rd 2019, Beaver Hollow Conference Center located, Java Center, Buffalo,NY
Board of Directors American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Caribbean Division – Nov2018-present
The microbiota Vault – A global microbiota vault to conserve long-term health for humanity – http://www.microbiotavault.org/ – team member – coordinate support from global institutions
Productivity Award – 1^st place, Puerto Rico Idea Network for Biomedical Research Excellence – research projects Publication Awards – August 2018
Dec 1^st 2018 Puerto Rico Society for Microbiology (SMPR), Americo Pomales Award, 1^st place Undergraduate Poster Presentation at the Sixth Student Research Symposium: Passing the torch of Ethics and Research to the next generation, Brayan Vilanova “The probiotic microbiota of fermented tropical beverages: Mauby and Tepache”
Dec 1^st 2018 Puerto Rico Society for Microbiology (SMPR), Americo Pomales Award, 2^nd place graduate Poster Presentation at the Sixth Student Research Symposium: Passing the torch of Ethics and Research to the next generation, Frances Vazquez “Anogenital bacteria associated to HPV infections in Puerto Rican women”
Organizing Committee ISME Latin America, August 2019 , Chile
ISME – International Board of Embassadors– International Society for Microbial Ecology (2018- present)
Member of NIH’s National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Literature Selection Technical Review Committeefor selection of journals for PubMed indexation (2015-2019)
2018 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Minority Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research Award (AACR-MICR Faculty Scholar Award)
Visiting Faculty Award, IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (PRINBRE), 02/2018 Proj title: Microbial Pathway Reconstructions in cervical samples associated to HPV
Host: Dr. Rob Knight’s Dept. Pediatrics Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA
ASM/NSF LINK-UFRI Award Undergraduate Faculty Research Initiative (UFRI) Fellowship – supported by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Leaders Inspiring Networks and Knowledge (LINK) program. Recognition at the National level, as a model of excellence in STEM research and for commitment to student learning.
American Society for Microbiology Minority Awardto Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, June 2015, New Orleans, Louisiana
Carl Storm Fellowship– Invited Speaker at the Gordon Research Conference in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Mount Holyoke, MA – Summer 2013
Millis-Colwell Exchange Program Award for Early Career Scientists, American Society for Microbiology. This Award is given to only 1 US researcher each year. Award to participate in the Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting and visit the Australian Centre for Ecogenomics at the University of Queensland.
American Society for Microbiology –Young Investigator Oral Presentation, Session on Ecology and Evolution of Unicellular Eukaryotes, San Francisco, CA – may 2012
NSF National Science Foundation/DBI- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – 2009-2012
NSF National Science Foundation/DEB – Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant – 2007-2009