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Dr. BOŠTJAN KOBE, University of QUEENSLAND

Boštjan Kobe

Boštjan Kobe
is Professor of Structural Biology and Australian Laureate Fellow at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He received his BSc in chemistry at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and his PhD in biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA. His laboratory uses methods of structural biology (in particular crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy) to understand the molecular basis of function of proteins involved in the processes of infection and immunity. Between 2012 in 2014, he was President of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand (SCANZ) . He was awarded the Minister's Prize for Achievement in Life Sciences in 2001, Australian Research Council (ARC) Federation Fellowship in 2005, ASBMB (Australian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Roche Medal in 2009 and Beckman Coulter Discovery Award in 2018, and the ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2018. In 2018, he also was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2020, he was names Slovenian Ambassador of Science. He has published over 250 scientific articles, including in Nature in Science.