Filipa Godoy-Vitorino

Filipa Godoy-Vitorino­ has a Biology degree from the University of Porto, Portugal (2002), a Ph.D. in Microbial Ecology from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR-RP), and a three-year Postdoc funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) done at the US Department of Energy-Joint Genome Institute (JGI) (2009-2012). Her research interests and expertise include the use of next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics to analyze microbial profiles and metagenomes. In 2012 she was a visiting academic at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, funded by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) to conduct bioinformatic analyses on a single-cell ciliate metagenome. Currently, Filipa is a Research Professor at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Metropolitan Campus (IAUPR-MC), and the Principal Investigator of the Microbial Ecology and Genomics Lab (MEGL). MEGL’s main projects include understanding the role of rhizosphere microbes in tropical tree adaptation to different soil types, the microbiome of herbivores as source of novel enzymes for biofuels, and the impact of the Human Papiloma Virus (HPV) in the cervical microbiome in latinas. Filipa’s lab collaborates with several US institutions; Portuguese universities, in projects funded by the EU, and has several published manuscripts in microbial ecology.  Filipa is a founding member of the Junior Advisory Group of the ASM, and a new member of ASM’s GMPC. Additionally, she is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals of Microbiology/Microbial Ecology/Environmental Technologies and also the Advisor of the Microbiology Student Association of IAUPR-MC, a Chapter of the ASM.