Katherine Hand received the 2025 Simon Chan Fellowship Award
Congratulations to Katherine Hand, our PhD student, for receiving the 2025 Simon Chan Fellowship Award! 🥇
Our paper is published in Nature Communications
Congratulations to Malathy Palayam, our postdoc and the Shabek lab for a wonderful paper! Check out our study on the mechanisms of strigolactone catabolism is now out in Nature Communications. Structural Insights into Strigolactone Catabolism by Carboxylesterases Reveal a Conserved Conformational Regulation. Nature Communications.LINK Palayam, M., Yan, L., Nagalakshmi, U., Gilio, AK., Cornu, D., Boyer,…
Our new study is out in JBC!
Our new paper is out – on new structural insights into rice KAI2 receptor and functional implications for perception and signal transduction. Published in Published in Journal of Biological Chemistry: Guercio, AM., Gilio, AK., Pawlak, J., and Shabek, N. (2024). LINK
Darian DeBortoli received the 2024 CBS Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Darian DeBortoli, Shabek Lab undergraduate researchers, have been awarded the 2024 College of Biological Science Undergraduate Researcher Summer Fellowship! Well deserved!
Katherine received the 2024 Elsie Taylor Stocking Memorial Fellowship
Congratulations to Katherine Hand (our PhD student), for receiving the 2024 Elsie Taylor Stocking Memorial Fellowship!!! The Stocking Memorial Fellowship supports outstanding graduate students in studies and research in plants. We’re proud of you Katherine!
Angelica received the Best Poster Award in 2023 GRC Meeting
Angelica has been honored with the Best Poster Award at the 2023 Plant Proteolysis – Gordon Research Conference in Rhode Island
Natalie received the USDA-NIFA fellowship
Congratulations, Natalie!!! For receiving the prestigious USDA – NIFA predoctoral fellowship that will sponsor her research in the next two years.
Our new paper is out: on the structure of maize BZR1-type β-amylase and noncatalytic adaptation!
Congratulations to Drs. Fuai Sun and Malathy Palayam for the new publication in Journal of Structural Biology. This study takes a leap towards the understanding of the molecular architecture of catalytically inactive plant β-Amylase (BAM) proteins that play an essential role in growth, development, stress response, and hormone regulation.
Dr. Shabek received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergrad Research
Prof. Shabek is the recipient of the 2022 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Katherine Hand received Honorable Mention – Chancellor’s Award
Congratulations Katherine! For receiving Honorable Mention – Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research – in recognition of her excellent work as Undergraduate Researcher.