Dr. Sophie Lev studied for her Master’s and PhD degrees in the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, researching signal transduction in a fungal pathogen of corn. After completion of her PhD in 2003, she proceeded with post-doctoral training in the same University, and then in the University of California, Berkeley. She joined Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology in 2010, to work with Dr. Julie Djordjevic and Prof. Tania Sorrell to study signal transduction and pathogenesis of the medically important fungal pathogen, Cryptococcus neoformans.