Yukiko Gōda

Yukiko Goda is a Japanese molecular biologist who is a professor and group leader at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. Her research considers neural communication through synapses. She was elected a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2023.

Early life Goda was born in Osaka, but grew up between Japan and Canada because her father worked in a trading company. She was at high school in Toronto, and secured a scholarship to attend the University of Toronto. 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. She completed a course on developmental neurobiology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where she learned that Stevens' group were investigating synaptic plasticity in vivo. She joined the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in 2022. 2014 Elected to the Science Council of Japan 2023 Elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization

Selected publications