2018 -Dynamics of Plant Hormone Interactions at Atomic Resolutions 2020 -Nitzan received the UC Davis Innovation & Creativity Award 2021 - National Science Foundation NSF-CAREER Award 2022 - Featuring our publication in Comm Biol (Nature) on KAI2 2022 - Featuring our Nature Plants - Unlocked Enzyme Structure in Plants 2022 - Nitzan received the 2022 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research 2022 - Understanding Growth Regulation by Protein Degradation in Trees for Bioenergy (our DOE Award) 2021 - Uncovering how plants see blue light 2022 -Plant smoke detectors evolve as hormone sensors 2022 - Unlocking Ubiquitin Ligase Enzyme in Plants 2021 - Featuring our Cryptochrome paper in Comms Biol (Nature Portfolio) 2022 - On our new DoE grant 2021 - Featuring our Cryptochrome paper in Comms Biol (Nature Portfolio) 2022 - Featuring our KAI2 paper in Comms Biol (Nature Portfolio) 2022 - Unlocked enzyme structure shows how strigolactone hormone controls plant growth 2021 - Discoveries by NSF - Featuring our KAI2 paper in Comms Biol (Nature Portfolio) 2021 - Blue Light Perception in Plants 2021 - Featuring our KAI2 paper in Comms Biol (Nature Portfolio) 2022- Featuring our Nature Plants 2022 - molecular switches (Advanced Light Source Highlights) 2022 - on our 2022 Nature Plants paper (Biosciences) 2021 - Structure of blue light sensor 2021 - KAI2 smoke detectors evolved to sense hormones 2022 -Unlocking MAX2 in Plants Recent Posts Our collaborative study is published in SCIENCE!!! Congratulations to Angelica Guercio on the successful completion of her Ph.D. Our new paper is out in New Phytologist! Angelica received the Best Poster Award in 2023 GRC Meeting Natalie received the USDA-NIFA fellowship Fuai received the Outstanding Postdoc Award! Angelica receives the Dean’s Grad Students Mentoring Award Congrats to our postdoc Dr. Lior Tal for starting her own lab! JSB – the Journal Cover Page featuring our BAM8 paper. DOE Award to the Shabek lab