Marx Structural Biology Group
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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Shlomit Dor
Lab manager​
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​Shlomit holds a Master of Science in Microbiology from Tel-Hai Academic College, specializing in fungal and microbial interactions in plant diseases. A recipient of the Israeli Society for Plant Protection's excellence scholarship, she brings extensive expertise in molecular biology, microbiology, and experimental design. Her current work focuses on exploring trapping local protein conformations in domain swapped proteins.
Nadav Sellam
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Nadav is Masters student in The Technion working on developing generative models to capture the multimodal nature of protein structures and improve structural ensemble prediction.
Yael Gluskinos
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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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Adi Amar
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Adi is a third year undergraduate student in Biotechnology and Agriculture at Tel-Hai Academic College. Adi is looking for evidence of dual conformations in nascent protein chains during translation, using Cryo-EM
Shira Shalev​
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Shira is a third year undergraduate student in Food Science at Tel-Hai Academic College. Shira is working on engineering protein stability using the amino-domino model that suggests amino acid pairs have intrinsic structural preferences
Former Lab Members​
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Dr. Tareq Tarabeih
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Ofir Berel
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Nitsan YehiShalom
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Einar Alhassid Gutkin​
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Einar is a third year undergraduate student in Biotechnology and Data Science at Tel-Hai Academic College. Einar is using molecular dynamics to probe the stability and behaviour of dual conformation proteins.