Kobe Koren

Kobe Koren grew up in the Greater Philadelphia Area and graduated with Honors from Johns Hopkins University in 2024 with a B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology and a minor in Philosophy. His interest in research began from a young age when he interned at the Sbarro Health Research Organization at Temple University in high school, researching cellular senescence and inducible apoptosis in neuroblastomas and small-cell carcinomas.  While at university, he worked in the Farber Lab at the Carnegie Institution for Science and Johns Hopkins University for most of his undergraduate tenure, researching pharmacological effects on apolipoprotein metabolism in zebrafish via high-throughput screening.  For his independent research project, he explored doxycycline-mediated Apolipoprotein B regulation in larval zebrafish.  Additionally, he worked at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences in Bremen, Germany, attempting to develop a macroalgae-based peroxidase for western blot and ELISA. Kobe joined the Zanders Lab in June 2024 and is excited to explore wtf protein-protein interactions.

 

Outside the lab, you can find Kobe reading philosophy, cooking, brewing beer (with yeast not from the lab), or at the cinema.