We are excited to share two recently published review articles highlighting emerging directions in plant signaling and structural biology. The first, led by Dr. Malathy Palayam and published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology, is titled “Beyond prediction: why experimental structural biology remains essential in plants.” The review discusses the rapidly evolving landscape of structural…
Dr. Nitzan Shabek received the UC Davis Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching, recognizing his commitment to excellence in the classroom and undergraduate mentorship. Dr. Shabek teaches biochemistry to hundreds of students each year, helping them build a strong foundation from atoms and amino acids to protein structure, function, and enzyme kinetics. His…
From IGG PhD (in the Shabek lab) to Faculty: Angelica Guercio Begins Tenure-Track Role at UC Davis We are excited to celebrate Angelica Guercio as she officially begins her tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department at UC Davis this summer. Angelica has been an outstanding colleague,…
Congratulations to the Shabek Lab, and especially to Angelica, for contributing to an exciting new collaborative study led by Caroline Gutjahr’s group (Max Planck). The work, “The GRAS protein RAM1 interacts with WRI transcription factors to regulate plant genes required for arbuscule development and function,” sheds light on key mechanisms driving symbiotic interactions in plants.…
Congratulations to the Shabek Lab especially Malathy – research with the labs of Yanran Li (UCSD), Dave Nelson (UCR) and Xiaonan Xie (Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan) group now published in Science – more discoveries on Strigolactone signaling pathway: Evolution of interorganismal strigolactone biosynthesis in seed plants. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp0779
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.