New NSF grant to the Shabek Lab!!!
Congratulation on new funded project!!! Together with Natalia Doudareva from Purdue University, Dr. Shabek received $1.5M to study new hormone-like pathway. This would be our third NSF Award in two years!!
Our new paper is out: on the structure of maize BZR1-type β-amylase and noncatalytic adaptation!
Congratulations to Drs. Fuai Sun and Malathy Palayam for the new publication in Journal of Structural Biology. This study takes a leap towards the understanding of the molecular architecture of catalytically inactive plant β-Amylase (BAM) proteins that play an essential role in growth, development, stress response, and hormone regulation.
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.
Dr. Shabek received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergrad Research
Prof. Shabek is the recipient of the 2022 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Katherine Hand received Honorable Mention – Chancellor’s Award
Congratulations Katherine! For receiving Honorable Mention – Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research – in recognition of her excellent work as Undergraduate Researcher.
Vali Engles is awarded Provost’s Undergrad Fellowship
Congratulations Vali, Shabek Lab undergraduate student researcher, has been awarded the UC Davis Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship (PUF, 2022)!
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…
Katherine and Shelly received the Dean’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Katherine Hand and Shelly Lee, Shabek Lab undergraduate researchers, have been awarded the 2022 College of Biological Science Undergraduate Researcher Summer Fellowship!
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
Angelica received the 2021 Elsie Taylor Stocking Memorial Fellowship
Congratulations to Angelica Guercio (our PhD student), for receiving the Stocking Fellowship!!! The Elsie Taylor Stocking Memorial Fellowship supports outstanding graduate students in studies and research in plants.