Meet Our Team

Li-av Segev Zarko received her Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she studied antimicrobial peptides in bacterial biofilms. She completed her postdoctoral training in John Boothroyd’s lab at Stanford University, focusing on host–parasite interactions in Toxoplasma gondii. In 2024, she joined UTMB as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a member of the Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics. Her lab uses cryo-electron tomography and molecular tools to study the invasion machinery of apicomplexan parasites.