Our new paper is out – on new structural insights into rice KAI2 receptor and functional implications for perception and signal transduction. Published in Published in Journal of Biological Chemistry: Guercio, AM., Gilio, AK., Pawlak, J., and Shabek, N. (2024). LINK
Congratulations to Katherine Hand, our PhD student, for receiving the 2024 Summer Graduate Student Researcher Award! 🥇 This award supports graduate research in engineering, computer sciences, and disciplines with engineering-related applications and methods. Additionally, Katherine has been selected to receive the NIH eMCB T32 training grant! We are proud of you, Katherine. Well done!…
Congratulations to Darian DeBortoli, Shabek Lab undergraduate researchers, have been awarded the 2024 College of Biological Science Undergraduate Researcher Summer Fellowship! Well deserved!
Congratulations to Katherine Hand (our PhD student), for receiving the 2024 Elsie Taylor Stocking Memorial Fellowship!!! The Stocking Memorial Fellowship supports outstanding graduate students in studies and research in plants. We’re proud of you Katherine!
Our research was highlighted in Nature Plants: A smoke receptor for volatile signalling
Congratulations to the Shabek Lab especially Angelica and Fuai – Our NSF funded research with Dudareva group at Purdue University is now published in Science – more discoveries on KAI2 signaling pathway:Volatile communication in plants relies on a KAI2-mediated signaling pathway.
Hats off to Dr. Angelica Guercio, the latest Ph.D. graduate from our lab! Congratulations on this remarkable well-deserved achievement! Proud of you!
Our new paper on new role of the C-terminal of SCF-D3/MAX2 ubiquitin ligase in KAI2-mediated signaling. Published in New Phytologist: Tal, L., Guercio, AM., Varshney, K., Young, A., Gutjahr, C., and Shabek, N. (2023). LINK
Angelica has been honored with the Best Poster Award at the 2023 Plant Proteolysis – Gordon Research Conference in Rhode Island
Congratulations, Natalie!!! For receiving the prestigious USDA – NIFA predoctoral fellowship that will sponsor her research in the next two years.