Paula Godoy

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Charles Kaufman, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of California-Santa Cruz, 2014

Enrollment year: 2017

Research summary
Identification and characterization of functional non-coding somatic variants in melanoma

Graduate publications
Kramer ET, Godoy PM, Kaufman CK. 2022 Transcriptional profile and chromatin accessibility in zebrafish melanocytes and melanoma tumors. G3 (Bethesda), 2(1):jkab379.

Cunningham RL, Kramer ET, DeGeorgia SK, Godoy PM, Zarov AP, Seneviratne S, Grigura V, Kaufman CK. 2021 Functional in vivo characterization of sox10 enhancers in neural crest and melanoma development. Commun Biol, 4(1):695.

Jang HS, Shah NM, Du AY, Dailey ZZ, Pehrsson EC, Godoy PM, Zhang D, Li D, Xing X, Kim S, O’Donnell D, Gordon JI, Wang T. 2019 Transposable elements drive widespread expression of oncogenes in human cancers. Nat Genet, 51(4):611-17.