[2] She performed postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Gilad Haran[3] at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel.
While at the Weizmann Institute, Rhoades was involved in revolutionary single-molecule experiments studying the folding and unfolding of immobilized proteins.
[4][5] Rhoades completed her postdoctoral research with Watt W. Webb at Cornell University, one of the co-inventors of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.
These proteins do not form stable structures under physiological conditions; for many, function is dependent upon disorder.
Given the large fraction of the eukaryotic proteome predicted to be disordered, the scope of the problem and the need for new insights are enormous.