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 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!
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!
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.
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.
Congratulations Vali, Shabek Lab undergraduate student researcher, has been awarded the UC Davis Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship (PUF, 2022)!
Congratulations to Katherine Hand and Shelly Lee, Shabek Lab undergraduate researchers, have been awarded the 2022 College of Biological Science Undergraduate Researcher Summer Fellowship!
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.