Merav is a molecular microbiologist, with varied experience working with different microorganisms as well as animal cells. She received her M.Sc. from the Weizmann institute working on amoebae gene silencing, and her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University working on Group A Streptococcus virulence. After a postdoc return to Weizmann in which she gained experience with eukaryotes, she worked on designing a CRISPR mutant screen in Toxoplasma parasites at the London based Crick Institute. Since then, she has made AAV viruses in the ELSC EVCF, worked in the biotech industry on asRNA as treatment, and came to run our lab in a return to her bacterial pathogenesis origins. Outside the lab she juggles the demands of 3 very differently aged children and her need to keep sane.