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 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    

Dr. Nitzan Shabek received the NSF CAREER Award

Congratulations!!! Our lab PI, Prof. Nitzan Shabek, has just awarded with the NSF most prestigious award, The NSF CAREER. This will help to fund our research for the next 5 years including innovative initiative in promoting STEM education. The NSF CAREER is described by the NSF as supporting those with the “potential to serve as

Structure basis of CRY2 is published

In a new study, published in Communications Biology (Nature press), the Shabek lab determined the molecular structure of light activated sensory domain of cryptochrome-2. This work was discussed in the press – UC Davis News & Aggie News & Eureka (AAAS) Science Times & Science Daily