Congratulations to the Shabek Lab, and especially to our collaborators with Katie Dehesh’s group (UC Riverside), for contributing to an exciting new study!The work, “Bimodal retrograde signaling disrupts a suppressor network and activates a key transcriptional activator to direct stress responses,” uncovers how the plastidial metabolite MEcPP orchestrates stress-responsive gene expression. By dismantling suppressors (HAT1,…
From IGG PhD to Faculty: Angelica Guercio Begins Tenure-Track Role at UC Davis We are excited to celebrate Angelica Guercio as she officially begins her tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department at UC Davis this summer. Angelica has been an outstanding colleague, student, and member of…
🌟 We are excited to share that Edgar Cortes, incoming PBGG Master’s student in the Shabek Lab, has been awarded support through the NSF BEST (Bioindustrial Engineering for a Sustainable Tomorrow) training program. As part of this NSF-funded initiative, Edgar will receive fellowship support while pursuing his Master’s research in our lab. Congratulations, Edgar ,…
🎓✨ Hats off to Dr. Natalie Hamada, the latest Ph.D. graduate from the Shabek Lab! She delivered a fantastic exit seminar, and this milestone is a true reflection of her hard work and dedication. Congratulations on this well-deserved achievement, we’re so proud of you, Natalie! 🌟👏
Congratulations to the Shabek Lab, and especially to Angelica, for contributing to an exciting new collaborative study led by Caroline Gutjahr’s group (Max Planck). The work, “The GRAS protein RAM1 interacts with WRI transcription factors to regulate plant genes required for arbuscule development and function,” sheds light on key mechanisms driving symbiotic interactions in plants.…
Congratulations to Katherine Hand, our PhD student, for receiving the 2025 Simon Chan Fellowship Award! 🥇
Congratulations to the Shabek Lab especially Malathy – research with the labs of Yanran Li (UCSD), Dave Nelson (UCR) and Xiaonan Xie (Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan) group now published in Science – more discoveries on Strigolactone signaling pathway: Evolution of interorganismal strigolactone biosynthesis in seed plants. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp0779
Congratulations Brian, Shabek Lab undergraduate student researcher, has been awarded the UC Davis Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship (PUF, 2025)!
Our research on the SCF E3 ubiquitin ligase interactome in plants is now published in New Phytologist and featured as the cover of December (2024) issue!
Congratulations to Malathy Palayam, our postdoc and the Shabek lab for a wonderful paper! Check out our study on the mechanisms of strigolactone catabolism is now out in Nature Communications. Structural Insights into Strigolactone Catabolism by Carboxylesterases Reveal a Conserved Conformational Regulation. Nature Communications.LINK Palayam, M., Yan, L., Nagalakshmi, U., Gilio, AK., Cornu, D., Boyer,…