Angelica receives the Dean’s Grad Students Mentoring Award
Congratulations, Angelica!!! The recipient of the 2023 Dean’s Grad Students Mentoring Award. For her outstanding devotion to train & mentor undergrads and junior researchers in the lab.
Congrats to our postdoc Dr. Lior Tal for starting her own lab!
Congratulations to Dr. Lior Tal, one of our lab’s first postoctoral fellows (since 2019), for landing a PI/Assistant Professor position and will start the Tal Lab at Tel Aviv University (Plant Sciences) in Israel! Proud of you, well done and good luck, Lior!
JSB – the Journal Cover Page featuring our BAM8 paper.
Congratulations to the Shabek lab (Fuai and Malathy) recent publication – our Cover Page (credits to Dr. Shabek:-) has been selected as the cover page for September 2022 Volume of Journal of Structural Biology.
DOE Award to the Shabek lab
Congratulations!!! The Shabek lab just received a huge grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) – Biological and Environmental Research (BER) division. This funds will support our lab in collaboration with Justin Walley group (Iowa State U) and Andrew Groover (USDA Forest Services) to investigate the ubiquitin system in trees and drought response using multiomics…
Our new paper is out – Role of E3 Ligases in Chloroplasts
Katherine Hand and Dr. Nitzan Shabek’s new paper is now published in International Journal of molecular Sciences. We highlighted recent studies that reveal new function of E3 ubiquitin ligases and their roles in chloroplast function.
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.