Joyce Marinho de Souza is a Full Professor in the Biomedicine program at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidade do Oeste Paulista (UNOESTE), Presidente Prudente, Brazil. She holds a Licentiate degree in Biological Sciences and a Bachelor's degree in Biomedicine from UNOESTE, completed part of her Biomedicine training as an exchange student at the University of Chester, United Kingdom, and earned a Master's degree in Environment and Regional Development and a Ph.D. in Microbiology, both with a focus on epidemiology, from UNOESTE and Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), respectively. Dr. Marinho de Souza coordinates the Research Center in Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology (NUPEMIC), whose research lines focus on the epidemiology of infections, antimicrobial resistance, and gut microbiota modulation by prebiotics and its implications for human health. Her current research centers on isolating bacteriophages from clinical samples and on modulating gut microbiota to manage skin conditions. She supervised and coordinated the study "Gut Microbiota-Skin Axis in Melasma: Microbial Metabolites and Hormonal Crosstalk," published in FEMS Microbiology Letters, and is the first author of "Dysbiosis and Staphylococcus aureus: Implications for Atopic Dermatitis and Other Dermatoses," recently accepted for publication in Dermato.