Zoë Feder

PhD Student

I attended Oberlin College, where I majored in biochemistry and studied the origins of soil-restricted plants in the Chihuahuan Desert with Mike Moore. After college, I moved to Boston to work as a lab technician: I studied how the heat shock response is activated in yeast (with David Pincus), and the dynamics of red blood cell development (with Harvey Lodish and Hojun Li). I joined the Hochschild lab as a PhD student hoping to combine my interest in genetics and protein homeostasis. Outside of the lab, I spend my time community-organizing and accumulating art supplies that I may one day actually use.