Dr. Goley’s research focuses on bacterial cell biology, with an emphasis on cytoskeletal function during growth and division.Dr. Goley received her undergraduate degree in biochemistry and mathematics from Hood College. She earned her Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from the University of California at Berkeley. She completed postdoctoral training in bacterial cell biology at Stanford University in 2011. Dr. Goley joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2011.She is a member of the American Society for Cell Biology, the American Society for Microbiology, and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dr. Goley received an Innovation Award from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Discovery Fund. She was a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.