Curriculum Vita

Verena Göbel (Bier), MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

A. Position and Honors.

Postdoctoral Training (Past)
• Intern and Resident in Pediatrics, Clinical and Research Fellow in Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Immunology, Children’s Hospitals and German Cancer Research Center, Universities Düsseldorf and Heidelberg, Germany (H Jürgens, W Brandeis, KM Debatin and P Krammer)
• Research Fellow in Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD (TA Waldmann and IR Kirsch)
• Research Fellow in Molecular Genetics, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center (S Friend) and Visiting Clinical Fellow in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, MA

Licensure and Certification
• Medical Examination in Basic and Clinical Sciences, ECFMG
• Board Certification Pediatrics, Germany
• US Federation Licensing Examination, Massachusetts License Registration

Academic Appointments
• Past: Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
• Present: Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Hospital Appointments
• Past: Assistant in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
• Past: Assistant Pediatrician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
• Present: Associate Pediatrician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Professional Memberships
• Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Member, Children’s Oncology Group
• Member, Genetics Society of America

Other Professional Positions and Visiting Appointments (Past)
• Clinical Research Assistant of the German Society of Pediatric Oncology Ewing’s Sarcoma Trial (H Jürgens)
• Staff, Clinical Hematology/Immunology Laboratory, University of Heidelberg Children’s Hospital (KM Debatin)
• Clinical Research Assistant of the German Society of Pediatric Oncology Wilms Tumor Trial (R Ludwig)

Awards and Honors
• Fogarty International Foundation Award
• Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation Award
• Charles Hood Foundation Award
• American Cancer Society IRG Award
• Clinical Investigator Award, National Cancer Institute
• Howard Temin Award, National Cancer Institute

B. Selected publications (last 8 years).

• Göbel V, Barrett PL, Hall DH, Fleming JT.  Lumen morphogenesis in C. elegans requires the membrane-cytoskeleton linker erm-1.  Dev Cell 2004; 6: 865-873.
• Barrett PL, Fleming JT, Göbel V.  Targeted gene alteration in Caenorhabditis elegans by gene conversion.  Nat Genetics 2004; 36: 1231-1237.
• Zhang H, Abraham N, Khan LA, Hall DH, Fleming JT, Göbel V.  Apicobasal domain identities of expanding tubular membranes depend on glycosphingolipid biosynthesis.  Nat Cell Bio 2011; 13(10): 1189 – 1201.
• Zhang H, Kim A, Abraham N, Khan LA, Hall DH, Fleming JT, Göbel V.  Clathrin and AP-1 mediate apical polarity and lumen formation during C. elegans tubulogenesis.  Development 2012; 139: 2071–2083.
• Khan LA, Zhang H, Abraham N, Sun L, Fleming JT, Buechner M, Hall DHH, Göbel V.  ERM-1/ezrin-radixin-moesin extends unicellular tube lumens by apical membrane expansion and AQP-8/Aquaporin-mediated flux.  Nat Cell Bio 2012, in review.

C. Research Support (last 8 years).

Past: NIH R03 HD44589 (Principal Investigator): Organ lumen morphogenesis in C. elegans
Current: NIH R01 GM078653 (Principal Investigator): Apical membrane modeling in tubulogenesis