Dr. Grant Goda

Post Doctoral Researcher

Cellular and Molecular Medicine

 

Summary

Grant is originally from Florida and earned his B.S. from the University of Florida. After graduation, he worked at Brammer Bio for a year while applying to graduate programs. He then joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to pursue his Ph.D. in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Dominguez. His dissertation research focused on dissecting how mutant RNA-binding proteins contribute to cancer. During graduate school, Grant developed a strong passion for using biochemistry and molecular biology approaches to understand gene regulation.

Driven by his interest in RNA regulation in disease, Grant joined the laboratories of Dr. Gene Yeo and Dr. Corina Antal as a postdoctoral researcher in 2026.

Outside of the lab, Grant enjoys traveling, searching for good food, spending time at the beach, and playing ice hockey.

 

Education

B.S., Chemistry, University of Florida 2017

PhD, Chemistry, UNC Chapel Hill 2025

 

Contact

ggoda@health.ucsd.edu

Publications

  • Archishma Kavalipati, Amy Aponte, Michael E. Sullivan, Sarah L. Whittington, José C. Martínez, Grant A. Goda, Maria M. Aleman, Michael J. Emanuele, Daniel Dominguez, “Defining the Multi-Level Regulatory Response to Palbociclib in ER-Positive Breast Cancer.” NAR Cancer. 2026. Volume 8, Issue 1

  • Grant A. Goda*, Kwame Forbes*, Grace A. Eramo, Conner Breen, Douglas F Porter, Paul A. Khavari, Daniel Dominguez, Maria M. Aleman, “Iron-sensitive RNA regulation by poly C binding proteins.” Nucleic Acids Research. 2025. Volume 53, Issue 18. *Co-first Authors.

  • Bryan B. Guzmán*, Grant A. Goda*, Alli Jimenez, Justin G. Martyr, Yue Hu, Francisco F. Cavazos Jr., Maria Aleman, Daniel Dominguez “Contributions of Folded and Disordered Domains to RNA Binding by RNA Binding by HNRNPR.” BioRxiv 2025. *Co-first Authors.

  • José C. Martínez, Mi Zhou, Gilbert Giri, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Meghan M. Rowley, Grant A. Goda, Maria M. Aleman, William Y. Kim, Daniel Dominguez, “Coordinated Expression of Retained Introns and Poison Exons in Renal Cell Carcinoma.”, Cell Reports. 2025. Volume 44, Issue 8.

  • Gabrielle M. Gentile, R. Eric Blue, Grant A. Goda, Bryan B. Guzmán, Rachel A. Szymanski, Eunice Y. Lee, Nichlas M. Engels, Emma R. Hinkle, Hannah J. Wiedner, Aubriana N. Bishop, Hua Zhang, Xander H. T. Wehrens, Daniel Dominguez, Jimena Giudice, “Alternative splicing regulation of the Snap23 microexon in striated muscle.”, RNA Biology. 2025. 22(1), 1-20.

  • Yvonne L. Chao, Katherine I. Zhou, Kwame K. Forbes, Alessandro Porrello, Gabrielle M. Gentile, Yinzhou Zhu, Aaron C. Chack, Dixcy J.S. John Mary, Haizhou Liu, Eric Cockman, Lincy Edatt, Grant A. Goda, Justin Zhao, Hala Abou Assi, Hannah J. Wiedner, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Lily Wilkinson, Amanda E.D. Van Swearingen, Lisa A. Carey, Jimena Giudice, Daniel Dominguez#, Christopher L. Holley#, Chad V. Pecot#, “Snord67 Promotes Breast Cancer Metastasis Through U6-mediated Alternative Splicing”, Nature Communications. 2025. 16, Article number: 4118.

  • Maya L. Gosztyla, Lijun Zhan, Sara Olson, Xintao Wei, Jack Naritomi, Grady Nguyen, Lena Street, Grant A. Goda, Francisco F. Cavazos, Jonathan C. Schmok, Manya Jain, Easin Uddin Syed, Eunjeong Kwon, Wenhao Jin, Eric Kofman, Alexandra T. Tankka, Allison Li1, Valerie Gonzalez, Eric Lécuyer, Daniel Dominguez, Marko Jovanovic, Brenton R. Graveley, Gene W. Yeo, “Integrated multi-omics analysis of zinc-finger proteins uncovers roles in RNA regulation.”, Molecular Cell. 2024. 84(19): P3826-3842.E8.

  • Douglas F. Porter, Weili Miao, Xue Yang, Grant A. Goda, Andrew L. Ji, Laura K. H. Donohue, Maria M. Aleman, Daniel Dominguez & Paul A. Khavari, "easyCLIP Analysis of RNA-Protein Interactions Incorporating Absolute Quantification.”, Nature Communications. 2021. 12, Article number: 1569.

  • Luisa F. Escobar-Hoyos, Alex Penson, Ram Kannan, Hana Cho, Chun-Hao Pan, Rohit K. Singh, Lisa H. Apken, G. Aaron Hobbs, Renhe Luo, Nicolas Lecomte, Sruthi Babu, Fong Cheng Pan, Direna Alonso-Curbelo, John P. Morris IV, Gokce Askan, Olivera Grbovic-Huezo, Paul Ogrodowski, Jonathan Bermeo, Joseph Saglimbeni, Cristian D. Cruz, Yu-Jui Ho, Sharon A. Lawrence, Jerry P. Melchor, Grant A. Goda, Karen Bai, Alessandro Pastore, Simon J. Hogg, Srivatsan Raghavan, Peter Bailey, David K. Chang, Andrew Biankin, Kenneth R. Shroyer, Brian M. Wolpin, Andrew J. Aguirre, Andrea Ventura, Barry Taylor, Channing J. Der, Daniel Dominguez, Daniel Kümmel, Andrea Oeckinghaus, Scott W. Lowe, Robert K. Bradley, Omar Abdel-Wahab, Steven D. Leach, “Altered RNA Splicing by Mutant p53 Activates Oncogenic RAS Signaling in Pancreatic Cancer.”, Cancer Cell. 2020. 38(2):198-211.E8.