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
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. 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!!!
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, 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.
We are proud to announce that Ryan Buchner, a Shabek Lab undergraduate student researcher, was awarded the Spring 2020 Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship (PUF) from the UC Davis Undergraduate Research Center!
Natalie Hamada is awarded with the NIH T32 MCB training grant (with Dr. Nitzan Shabek) . This award will fund Natalie’s PhD program and research in the lab focusing on plant ubiquitin system.
Angelica Guercio has won a 2020-2021 Summer GSR Award – Integrative Genetics & Genomics Graduate Group’s. Angelica will continue her PhD studies on plant receptors sensing mechanisms; and will initiate the development of advanced integrated computational strategy to using Virtual Reality tools.
Isabella Glenn (Izzy), our undergrad researcher, has been selected to be a Kevin Gardner Research Scholar as part of the College of Biological Science Dean’s Circle Summer Undergraduate Research Program. This fellowship will help Izzy to continue her research in the Shabek Lab during the summer.
Prof. Shabek receives the 2020 UC Davis Early Career Faculty Award for Innovation and Creativity. The award was established to honor and support the advances of outstanding tenure-track faculty members early in their careers. Read more about it: www.ucdavis.edu/news/innovation-award