Early life
Goda was born in Osaka, but grew up between Japan and Canada because her father worked in a trading company. [1] She was at high school in Toronto, and secured a scholarship to attend the University of Toronto. [1] Despite initially considering literature, Goda became interested in science during her undergraduate studies, and spent her summer holidays on research placements in chemistry and biology. [1] She worked in Jack Greenblatt's laboratory, where she studied bacteriophage transcription. [1] [2] She trained in cell biology, and completed her doctoral research at Stanford University with Suzanne Pfeffer, where she studied vesicular transport from endosomes to the Golgi complex. [3] She completed a course on developmental neurobiology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where she learned that Stevens' group were investigating synaptic plasticity in vivo. [1] Goda moved to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies as a postdoctoral researcher with Charles F. Stevens, [2] where she specialised in electrophysiology, and studied how neurons alter their synaptic strengths. [4] [1] Goda eventually set up her own laboratory at University of California, San Diego. [1] In 2001, she moved to the Medical Research Council at University College London. [2]
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