Natalie received the 2022-23 Summer GSR Award!

Congratulations!!! Natalie Hamada has won the 2022-2023 Summer Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) Fellowship Award . Natalie will continue her PhD studies on the function of ubiquitin ligase in plant immunity, and will initiate the development of advanced integrated computational strategy to study protein-small molecule interactions using Virtual Reality tools.

Our new study is published in Nature Plants

New research from the Shabek laboratory at UC Davis unravels a new regulatory function of ubiquitin ligase in plant signalling. We combined structural biology, biochemistry and in planta CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing to show that the conformational switch in ASK1-D3/MAX2 CTH directly regulates the ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation process in strigolactone signaling pathway. We have also uncovered

Our new paper on the structure function of KAI2s

New research led by the Shabek laboratory at UC Davis together with multiple groups from Université Paris-Saclay and Technical University of Munich, revealed how molecular smoke detectors adapted to sense growth hormones in plants. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03085-6 Highlighted in the news: UC Davis News EurekaAlert AAAS NSF Research News