Ailie Marx - Principal Investigator
After completing a BSc at the Australian National University I joined the group of Noam Adir at the Technion and dedicated my MSc and PhD to studying the structure of the enormous light harvesting complex, the Phycobilisome. I continued using structural biology approaches to study virus-host interactions in the group of Akram Alian and later used single molecule biophysics tools in the group of Ariel Kaplan to explore the mechanisms these proteins. Most recently I collaborated with Alex Bronstein, using computational tools to uncover mechanisms governing the formation of local protein structure and the implications this has for protein function and disease. I currently lead the TWIST research group at the Migal - Galilee Research Institute where we are investigating variability in local protein structure and the role of the translation machinery in shaping those conformations.
Dr. Tareq Tarabeih - Postdoc
Tareq is using cryo-electron microscopy to map the path of the nascent protein chain through the ribosome and understand if and how genetic coding can affect this process.
Yael Gluskinos
Yael is a third year undergraduate student in Biotechnology - Agriculture at Tel Hai Academic College. She is investigating protein structures harboring local segments of dual, stable, conformations.
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Ofir Beral
Ofir is a second year undergraduate student in Biotechnology at Tel-Hai Academic College. Ofir is working on controlling protein stability via Amino-Domino mutations.