{"id":1728,"date":"2022-06-23T09:45:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2022-07-01T09:49:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T13:49:02","slug":"directora-del-departamento-de-microbiologia-y-zoologia-medica-habla-sobre-la-ciencia-en-el-caribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/2022\/06\/23\/directora-del-departamento-de-microbiologia-y-zoologia-medica-habla-sobre-la-ciencia-en-el-caribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Directora del Departamento de Microbiolog\u00eda y Zoolog\u00eda Medica habla sobre la Ciencia en el Caribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1181&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]After living in Puerto Rico for 19 years, microbiologist Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, Ph.D., frequently fields questions about her choice to pursue a career on the small Caribbean island prone to devastating natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. territory\u2019s ecological diversity \u2013 from deserts to coral reefs and rainforests \u2013 provides endless fodder for research, but \u201cthe best thing here is the people,\u201d says Godoy-Vitorino. \u201cThere are some very harsh possibilities, but in the chaos it all works out. We help each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Caribbean is a far cry away from where Godoy-Vitorino grew up, nearly four thousand miles away in the Portuguese countryside. Her father, a nature-loving economist, fostered her curiosity about the world with his stacks of National Geographic magazines. Originally, she dreamt of becoming a photographer, but fell in love with science during her Erasmus experience (a semester of research for European undergraduates) where she studied Cyanobacteria in the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Godoy-Vitorino\u2019s research focuses on understanding the correlation between HPV and the microbiomes of the vagina and cervix. Her lab is also active in analyzing the role the gut microbiome plays in a person\u2019s response to cancer therapies.<\/p>\n<p>Por Lauren Boyer &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaas.org\/membership\/member-spotlight\/we-help-each-other-aaas-caribbean-division-president-explains-what\">https:\/\/www.aaas.org\/<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;Leer mas&#8230;&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;sm&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aaas.org%2Fmembership%2Fmember-spotlight%2Fwe-help-each-other-aaas-caribbean-division-president-explains-what&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1181&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]After living in Puerto Rico for 19 years, microbiologist Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, Ph.D., frequently fields questions about her choice to pursue a career on the small Caribbean island prone to devastating natural disasters. The U.S. territory\u2019s ecological diversity \u2013 from deserts to coral reefs and rainforests \u2013 provides endless fodder&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-research","category-6","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/03\/Dr-Filipa-Godoy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}