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!!
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.
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)!
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.
Dr. Nitzan Shabek received the 2021 Neish Award
Dr. Shabek has been nominated and selected to receive the 2021 Arthur C. Neish Young Investigator Award from the Phytochemical Society of North America. The Neish Awards are given each year by the PSNA to outstanding early career scientists. Congratulations, Nitzan!!!
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
Dr. Nitzan Shabek Receives NSF EAGER Award
Dr. Nitzan Shabek, UC Davis, received the NSF EAGER award ($300,000). Together with Dr. Dinesh-Kumar’s lab, they will study the molecular interactome of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in planta.