Hagit studied biology with a focus on molecular biology at the Department of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She went on to do her master’s degree at Shimon Pollack`s lab, at the Department of Immunology in the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Her master’s focused on how Flagellin activation of Toll-Like Receptor 5 directs human monocytes into distinct differentiation towards dendritic cells. Next, she joined Daniel Kornitze`s lab at the Department of Molecular Microbiology in the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion. Her Ph.D. focused on the genetic and pharmacological suppression of fungalmorphogenesis. In her work on Candida albicans, she showed that endocytosis is both essential and highly regulated in hyphal morphogenesis. Since 2017 she is working at the Biology Faculty, Technion. She first worked as head of student labs for bachelor’s studies at the faculty. In October 2019 she joined the lab and is working on co-translational protein folding.
Co-translational protein folding, assembly and quality control, in health and disease
