🌟 We are excited to share that Edgar Cortes, incoming PBGG Master’s student in the Shabek Lab, has been awarded support through the NSF BEST (Bioindustrial Engineering for a Sustainable Tomorrow) training program. As part of this NSF-funded initiative, Edgar will receive fellowship support while pursuing his Master’s research in our lab. Congratulations, Edgar ,…
Congratulations to Katherine Hand, our PhD student, for receiving the 2025 Simon Chan Fellowship Award! 🥇
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 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
Congratulations to Darian DeBortoli, Shabek Lab undergraduate researchers, have been awarded the 2024 College of Biological Science Undergraduate Researcher Summer Fellowship! Well deserved!
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 has been honored with the Best Poster Award at the 2023 Plant Proteolysis – Gordon Research Conference in Rhode Island
Congratulations, Natalie!!! For receiving the prestigious USDA – NIFA predoctoral fellowship that will sponsor her research in the next two years.
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.
Prof. Shabek is the recipient of the 2022 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research