Bostjan Kobe is a structural biologist with a multi-disciplinary approach combining crystallography and electron microscopy with a range of biophysical techniques and functional assays in animal and plant cells. Kobe has made sustained contributions with ground-breaking significance in understanding innate immunity pathways in both plants and mammals and in identifying common models of signalling based on the SCAF (signalling by cooperative assembly formation) mechanism. This work builds on a body of advances relevant to signal transduction, protein regulation, protein: protein interactions, and protein structure method development in structural biology.
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Dr. Boštjan Kobe je biokemik, ki živi v Queenslandu, zaposlen pa je na Univerzi Queensland na Šoli za kemijo in molekularno bioznanost. Pot ga je iz Slovenije ponesla v ZDA, kjer je doktoriral, sedaj pa že 25 let živi v deželi pod južnim križem. Pogovarjala sva se o njegovem raziskovalnem delu v laboratoriju in o tem, kdaj bo cepivo proti novemu koronavirusu ugledalo luč sveta.