I received my B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biology from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I then obtained my Maters and Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science. During my Ph.D. in Prof. Deborah Fass’s Lab, I studied the mechanism of the disulfide catalyst QSOX and developed inhibitory antibodies that can reduce tumor and metastatic load in murine cancer models. After graduating, I moved to San Francisco to pursue my postdoctoral studies with Prof. Ron Vale at UCSF. In the Vale lab, I studied the structure and function of radial spokes, which are big, mysterious protein complexes that are found in eukaryotic cilia.
In 2021 I returned to Israel to start my own lab in the Life Sciences Department at Ben-Gurion University. I am interested in how proteins interact with each other and form complex, interesting structures. Specifically, eukaryotic flagella and cilia are great places to find magnificent protein architectures! My goal is to figure out how the structures of protein complexes enable them to carry out their functions and what goes wrong in disease.More about me:
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