Principal Investigator
Prof. Raz Zarivach
zarivach@bgu.ac.il
I am the head of the Zarivach Laboratory for Structural Biology, as well as chair of the Macromolecular Crystallography Research Centre (MCRC) at BGU.
I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia, Canada, on the E. coli Type III secretion system. Prior to this, I finished my PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, under the supervision of Prof. Ada Yonath (2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) on the subject of ribosome structures.
Scientific interests: Structural biology, molecular machines, biomineralization, biochemistry, magnetotactic bacteria…
Raz`s podcast – https://radiopublic.com/-60Z5kN/s1!cf030
Non-scientific interests: Family, Mediterranean music, reading, nature (the outdoors as well as the journal).
Lab manager
Geula Davidov
geulad@bgu.ac.il
M.Sc Medicinal Sciences (Neurobiology & Biochemistry), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2008
Scientific interests: Structural studies of magnetotactic bacterial proteins and pathogenic bacteria, neuroscience and pain relief, transporters, Transformers.
Non-scientific interests: Scientific education, ice skating, knitting, TV, reading, alternative medicine.
PhD students
Titus Baskaran
btitus@post.bgu.ac.il
M.Sc. Biophysics, University of Madras, 2018
B.Sc. Physics, Madras Christian College, 2015
Scientific interests: Structure and function of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins involved in Biomineralization.
Non-scientific interests: Sports and Travel.
Polina Dudina
dudina@post.bgu.ac.il
M.Sc. in Medical Biochemistry, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, 2023
Scientific interests: Biochemistry, Structural biology, neurodegeneration, Plant physiology.
Non-scientific interests: History, cooking and Charity.
MSc students
Noa Fishov
fishovn@post.bgu.ac.il
B.Sc. Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Expected 2026.
Scientific interests: Biochemistry, Structural biology, Protein Engineering.
Non-scientific interests: Cooking and fitness
Undergraduate Project Students
Hila Mizrahi
hilamiz@post.bgu.ac.il
B.Sc. Life Sciences, B.Sc. Earth and Environmental Science,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Expected 2027.
Scientific interests: Biochemistry, Structural biology, Molecular biology, Environmental Science, Mineralogy.
Non-scientific interests: Travelling, Horses and Books.