Dr. Mary Goll is an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Georgia. Her research laboratory is interested in understanding chromatin regulation in the context of early development and disease, using zebrafish as a primary research model. Current research is focused on understanding how vertebrate genomes are first fractionated into regions of open and compacted chromatin during embryogenesis, and on modeling human diseases caused by mutation of genes involved in chromatin regulation.
Dr. Goll graduated cum laude with a degree in Biology from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and obtained her Ph.D with distinction from the Genetics Department at Columbia University in New York City. She completed postdoc training at the Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Embryology, where she worked as a Carnegie Collaborative Fellow and a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow under the dual mentorship of Drs. Marnie Halpern and Allan Spradling. She began her independent research career in 2010. Her independent research has been supported by the American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award, the Basil O'connor Research Award from the March of Dimes, and funding from the NIH.