Joanna-Lynn C. Borgogna, PhD

Assistant Professor

Education and Positions

2025 - Assistant Professor, Weissman-Hood Institute at TouroCOM Montana
- Assoc. Course Director of Public Health & Preventative Medicine

2023 - NIH K99/R00 Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC), Postdoctoral Fellow –Montana State University; Focus: Applying Machine Learning to Assess Lipidomic and Antioxidant Alterations in a Longitudinal Cohort of Aging Women (K99AG081495, PI: Borgogna)

2020 - 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow – Montana State University; Focus: Relation between psychosocial stress and molecular bacterial vaginosis in racial/ethnic minorities

2014 - 2019 Ph.D. – Microbiology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; Thesis title: Examining the Potential Role of Biogenic Amines in Vaginal Microbial Ecology and Gynecological Health. Minor: Applied Statistics

2011-2014 B.S. – Biology, Point Loma Nazarene; Minor: Computational Biology

  • My research takes a collaborative, community-centered, culture-informed approach to characterizing the urogenital microenvironment. I apply machine learning to clinical data to identify multi-omic biomarkers of urogenital health. These observations are then validated using metabolite-microbiota-cell culture assays. The goal is the development of therapeutic interventions.

    This research would be impossible without the support & interest of the community members who share their stories, time, and provide clinical samples. Thank you.