Noel L. Goddard, PhD

Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows 

 

Current Address:

Church Laboratory, Dept. of Genetics

Harvard Medical School

77 Ave.Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115

PH: 617.432.6514 / FX: 627.432.6513

 Email:goddard@genetics.med.harvard.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

HIGHER EDUCATION

Ph.D. Physics & Biology, Rockefeller University, 2005

            Why this Genetic Code? An investigation into the Stability and Error Tolerance of the Genetic Code

Committee: J.S.Lederberg (Advisor), A.J.Hudspeth(Chair),A.Libchaber, D.Thaler, D.Mauzerall, and R.Rudner

M.S. Chemical Physics, Polytechnic University, 1998

Inelastic Scattering from Microparticles: Fluorescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Oriented Molecules Within a Levitated Microdroplet

Committee: S.Arnold (Chair/Advisor), B.Garetz, A.Myerson, A.Izmailov, G.Griffel

B.S. Chemistry / Double Major in Humanities, Polytechnic University, 1996

Laser-Induced Crystallization in Supersaturated Urea Solutions

Committee: B.A.Garetz(Advisor)

 

HONORS

•William F.Milton Fund Award, Harvard University 2005

•Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University 2004-7

•Burroughs Wellcome Fund Student Fellow 2000-2 for interdisciplinary research in biology

•Julian R. Reasenberg Memorial Prize - 1997 for outstanding original research in chemistry

•Roland Ward Prize - 1997 for best undergraduate thesis in the Department of Chemistry

•Full Scholarship, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 1992

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

•Visiting Scientist, Church Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston,MA; 2005-present

•Visiting Scientist, Bauer Center for Genomics Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; 2004-2006

•PhD Research Fellow, Rockefeller University, New York, NY: Center for Physics and Biology (A.Libchaber); 1999-2002

Sackler Lab for Molecular Genetics and Informatics (J.Lederberg); 2002-4

•Graduate Research and NSF Researcher, Microparticle Photophysics Laboratory (MP3L),

Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY (S.Arnold);1996-1999

•Teaching Assistant, CH120 Analytical Chemistry Lab, CH177 Physical Chemistry Lab, PH323 Electricity and Magnetism I,

LS112 Introduction to Genetics & Lab Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY; 1997-99

•Undergraduate Research, Othmer Institute of Science, Polytechnic University,

Brooklyn, NY (B.A.Garetz); 1995-6

•Research Intern, Organic Chemistry Department, United States Department of

Energy Environmental Measurements Laboratory, New York, NY ;1993-4

 

 

NON-RESEARCH RELATED EXPERIENCE

•Wine Steward, Harvard Society of Fellows; Cambridge, MA; 2004-2006

•Soros Committee to evaluate the validity of state regents exams for alternative high schools, New York, NY; 2004

•Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Committee to select plays for performance funding, New York,NY; 2004

•Pipe Organ Builder , Randall Dyer and Associates, Jefferson City, TN, 1995

 

PUBLICATIONS

1) The Robustness of the Genetic Code to tRNA Concentration and Codon Reassignment

            N.L.Goddard, A.Libchaber, and D.S.Thaler. In Revision, J.Bact. (2006)

 

2) Opiate-like effects of Sugar Addition on Dopamine and Opioid mRNAs in the Rat Brain,

R.Spangler, K.M. Wittkowski, N.L. Goddard, N.M. Avena, B.G. Hoebel, and S.F. Leibowitz, Mol.Brain Res., 124, 134-42(2004)

 

3) Discerning Aggregation in Few Molecule Ensembles: The Time Delay Histogram and Photon Counting Moment Analysis,

H.C.Ren, N.L.Goddard, G.Bonnet and A.Libchaber, Phys.Rev.E. 69, 151916 Epub (2004)

 

4) Exponential DNA Replication by Laminar Convection,

D.Braun, N.L.Goddard and A.Libchaber. Phys.Rev.Let. 91, 158103 Epub (2003)

 

5) Elevated D3 Dopamine Receptor mRNA in Dopaminergic and Dopaminoceptive Regions of the Rat Brain in Response to Morphine,

R.Spangler, N.L.Goddard, N.M.Avena, B.G. Hoebel, S.Leibowitz. Mol.Brain Res. 111, 74-83(2003)

 

6) Single Strand Stacking Free Energy from DNA Beacon Kinetics,

D.P.Aalberts, J.M.Parman. N.L.Goddard. Biophys.J. 84, 3212-7(2003)

 

7) Misfolded Loops Decrease the Effective Rate of DNA Hairpin Formation - Refereed Reply 069802.

N.L.Goddard, G.Bonnet, O.Krichevsky, A.Libchaber. Phys.Rev.Lett. 88 (2002)

 

8) Sequence Dependent Rigidity of Single Stranded DNA,

N.L.Goddard, G.Bonnet, O.Krichevsky, and A.Libchaber, Phys.Rev.Lett. 85, 2400-4 (2000)

 

9) Nonclassical Polarization Effects in Fluorescence Emission Spectra from Microdroplets,

S.Arnold, N.L.Goddard, and S.C.Hill, J. Chem. Phys. 111, 10407-10411(1999)

 

10) Convertible Electrodynamic Levitator-Trap to Quasi-Electrostatic Levitator for Microparticle Nucleation Studies,

S.Arnold, N.L.Goddard and N.Wotherspoon, Rev.Sci.Instrum. 70, 1473-7 (1999)

 

11) Spontaneous Emission Spectra from Microdroplets,

S. Holler, N.L. Goddard and S. Arnold J. Chem. Phys. 108, 6545-7(1998)

 

12) Cavity Mode Selection in Spontaneous Emission from Oriented Molecules in a Microparticle,

S. Arnold, S. Holler and N.L. Goddard Opt. Lett. 22, 1452-1454 (1997); Opt. Lett. 23, 144 (1998)

 

13) Fluorescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy of an Isolated Micro-droplet,

S. Arnold, S. Holler and N.L. Goddard Mat.Sci.and Eng. B B48, 139-146(1997)

also in Quantum Optical Phenomena in Spatially Confined Materials

Proceedings of the 6th NEC Symposium on Fundamental Approaches to New Material Phases,

eds. K. Cho, K. Tajima and H. Kamimura (Elsevier , Amsterdam, 1997) pp 130-138

 

14) Laser-Induced Nucleation in Supersaturated Urea Solutions,

B.A.Garetz, J.E.Aber, N.L.Goddard, R.G.Young, and A.S.Myerson, Optics and Photonic New's Optics in 1997, 32-3 (1997)

 

15) Nonphotochemical, Polarization-Dependent, Laser-Induced Nucleation in Supersaturated Urea Solutions

B.A.Garetz, J.E.Aber, N.L.Goddard, R.G.Young, and A.S.Myerson, Phys.Rev. Lett. 77 3475-6 (1996 )