12 posts published in 2026.
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and its National Allergy Bureau have recognized RIPLRT collaborator Dr. Benjamín Bolaños-Rosero (UPR Medical Sciences Campus) for more than 26 years of daily fungal spore and pollen reporting in Puerto Rico.
The 2026 Edition (v2.0) of the RIPLRT Institute Research Group Manual is now at manual.riplrt.com: 20 chapters on mentoring, collaboration, data, and authorship, plus fill-in templates, forms, and policies. Open access under CC BY 4.0.
New medRxiv preprint by Dr. Félix E. Rivera-Mariani with RIPLRT fellows Tashoy Campbell and Emily Solomon: inflammatory biomarkers, heart failure, and racial disparities in 6,785 MESA participants.
Undergraduate research fellow Adriana González-Candelaria (UPR Mayagüez) will present her NHANES analysis of recurrent wheeze burden and symptom–attack discordance in U.S. adults with current asthma at ABRCMS 2026 in Seattle, November 18–21.
RIPLRT collaborator Dr. Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, Professor and Chair of Microbiology and Immunology at the UPR Medical Sciences Campus, will receive the American Society for Microbiology's 2027 Award for Graduate Education.
RIPLRT mentee Emily Solomon earned her M.S. in Biological Sciences at Lynn University with a capstone thesis, advised by Dr. Rivera-Mariani, evaluating polygenic risk scores for endometriosis and early menopause.
SporeLag, an R package by Dr. Félix E. Rivera-Mariani for building lagged and moving-average environmental exposure variables, has been accepted into the Comprehensive R Archive Network.
Presented at ASM Microbe 2026 in Washington, DC: fungal spores, but not pollen, provide a reproducible short-lead signal of RSV incidence across two health regions of Puerto Rico.
Félix E. Rivera-Mariani has been appointed ad-honorem Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the UPR Medical Sciences Campus.
A RIPLRT abstract in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (ASBMB 2026 supplement) uses mechanism-aware machine learning to link plasma proteomics to single-cell signaling and compactly classify COVID-19 severity.
Congratulations to Emily Pintilie, who defended her Lynn University M.S. thesis on the behavioral and molecular effects of the herbicide 2,4-D in planarians, with Dr. Rivera-Mariani on her committee.
RIPLRT mentees and collaborators presented research on outdoor airborne fungal spores, asthma healthcare utilization, and respiratory viral incidence across Puerto Rico at the Alliance for Clinical and Translational Research annual conference.
