Rate My Professor Liz Goodin

Liz Goodin is an Assistant Research Fellow in the Clinical Genetics Group within the Department of Women's and Children's Health at the University of Otago, part of the Division of Health Sciences. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Science at Victoria University of Wellington before undertaking a Master of Science in Genetics at the University of Otago, graduating in August 2017. Her master's thesis, supervised by Professor Stephen Robertson and Dr. Christine Neyt, investigated the MET gene, which plays a key role in Osteofibrous Dysplasia, a rare bone disease affecting children. Using antisense oligonucleotides to target specific RNA sites, her research aimed to clarify the regulation of this gene's processing and how dysregulation leads to disease.

From 2017 to 2019, Liz Goodin worked with the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, processing and cataloguing participant samples including DNA. She joined the Clinical Genetics Group as a Research Technician in 2019, advancing to Assistant Research Fellow. In this capacity, she works primarily with mouse models to study skeletal development, applying Micro CT imaging for 3D X-ray analysis of bone structures to compare normal and genetically modified groups. She also serves as Laboratory Technician and Biorepository Manager in the Laboratory for Genomic Medicine at the Paediatric and Child Health department, Dunedin Hospital. In 2020, she received the Best Research Support award at the Otago Medical School - Dunedin Campus Teaching and Research Awards.