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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 364 1559
Email
christoph.goebl@otago.ac.nz
Position
Senior Research Fellow
Department
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine (Christchurch)
Qualifications
PhD (Graz)

Research

Dr Christoph Goebl obtained his Bachelor and Master's degrees in Chemistry from the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz in Austria, and then his PhD in molecular biology from the same institute with Prof Klaus Zangger. During his PhD, he was a recipient of a DOC-fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and performed a one-year research stay with Dr Nico Tjandra at the NIH in Bethesda, USA, focusing on NMR spectroscopy of proteins. After his PhD, Dr Goebl joined Prof Tobias Madl as a PFP Helmholtz Fellow at the Technical University of Munich and the Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany where he became interested in the molecular basis of reactive oxygen species in biology. He then carried out a cell-biology focused post-doctoral position with Prof Tak W. Mak and Dr Chiara Gorrini at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, Canada, working on cancer-pathways and redox signalling.

Dr Goebl combines expertise in structural biology (using NMR spectroscopy, small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and X-ray crystallography) with experience in biochemical methods in oxidative stress signalling. He is exploring oxidative stress pathways of the Aryl hydrcarbon receptor (AhR) with focus on its metabolomic signalling in cancers. He also discovered redox-mediated amyloid formation of the tumour suppressor protein p16, and is currently investigating its role in melanoma.

Dr Goebl’s work is currently supported by a Sir Charles Hercus Fellowship from the Health Research Council and a Marsden project grant.

Publications

Reddington, C. J., Walsh, A. R., Kleffmann, T., Göbl, C., & Mace, P. D. (2025). Unconventional structure and function of PHD domains from additional sex combs-like proteins. FEBS Journal. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/febs.70206 Journal - Research Article

Sethi, A., de Cordovez, P., Mohanty, B., Morris, V. K., & Göbl, C. (2025). 1H, 13C, 15N backbone chemical shift assignment of P18ink4c from Danio rerio (zebrafish) using solution-state NMR spectroscopy. Biomolecular NMR Assignments. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s12104-025-10245-2 Journal - Research Article

Heath, S. G., Gray, S. G., Hamzah, E. M., O'Connor, K. M., Bozonet, S. M., Botha, A. D., de Cordovez, P., Sethi, A., … Goebl, C. (2024, November). Amyloid formation and depolymerization of tumour suppressor p16INK4a are regulated by a thiol-dependent redox mechanism. Verbal presentation at the 32nd Meeting of The Society for Redox Research Australasia (SFRRA) and 11th Joint Meeting with The Society for Free Radical Research Japan (SFRRJ), Canberra, Australia. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Goebl, C., & Morris, V. K. (2024, September). High-throughput compound screening at the Biomolecular Interaction Centre. Verbal presentation at the Queenstown Research Week (QRW) Biomolecular Interactions Meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Gray, S. G., Heath, S. G., Hamzah, E. M., Botha, A. D., O'Connor, K. M., Bozonet, S. M., … Göbl, C. (2024, September). Cancer-associated mutations of tumour suppressor p16INK4a increase the propensity for amyloid fibril formation. Verbal presentation at the Queenstown Research Week (QRW) Biomolecular Interactions Meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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