Elly Goetz

I am a third year PhD student in the Hull lab studying the biology of benthic foraminifera. My core interests lie in the understudied aspects of foraminiferal life histories. I came into Yale with a background in  life cycles and associated nuclear and genomic dynamics (Goetz et al., 2022), and through my PhD research, I seek to better understand other difficult, unanswered questions about the mechanisms behind poorly understood foraminiferal biology, including dormancy, through microscopy, genetics, and comparative transcriptomics.

Publications: 

Goetz, E. J., Greco, M., Rappaport, H. B., Weiner, A. K. M., Walker, L. M., Bowser, S., Goldstein, S., & Katz, L. A. (2022). Foraminifera as a model of the extensive variability in genome dynamics among eukaryotes. BioEssays, 44(10), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202100267

Gooday, A. J., Holzmann, M., Goetz, E., Cedhagen, T., Korsun, S., & Pawlowski, J. (2021). Three new species of Gromia (Protista, Rhizaria) from western Greenland fjords. Polar Biology, 44(6), 1037–1053. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02858-9