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.

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