Congratulations!!! The Shabek lab just received a huge grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) – Biological and Environmental Research (BER) division. This funds will support our lab in collaboration with Justin Walley group (Iowa State U) and Andrew Groover (USDA Forest Services) to investigate the ubiquitin system in trees and drought response using multiomics…
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.
Congratulation on new funded project!!! Together with Natalia Doudareva from Purdue University, Dr. Shabek received $1.5M to study new hormone-like pathway. This would be our third NSF Award in 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.
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.
Prof. Shabek is the recipient of the 2022 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Congratulations Katherine! For receiving Honorable Mention – Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research – in recognition of her excellent work as Undergraduate Researcher.
Congratulations Vali, Shabek Lab undergraduate student researcher, has been awarded the UC Davis Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship (PUF, 2022)!
New research from the Shabek laboratory at UC Davis unravels a new regulatory function of ubiquitin ligase in plant signalling. We combined structural biology, biochemistry and in planta CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing to show that the conformational switch in ASK1-D3/MAX2 CTH directly regulates the ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation process in strigolactone signaling pathway. We have also uncovered…
Congratulations to Katherine Hand and Shelly Lee, Shabek Lab undergraduate researchers, have been awarded the 2022 College of Biological Science Undergraduate Researcher Summer Fellowship!