Trisha “Tris” Nicole Sabay Yasay, a promising UC Davis Plant Sciences student, tragically passed away in a car collision on May 25. Known for her passion for plants, sustainability, and writing, she leaves a lasting impact on her peers and faculty.
Philip Day, Steven Theg, and the late Kentaro Inoue, all UC Davis, determined how β-barrel proteins are sorted in plant chloroplast envelopes. Chloroplasts, which are responsible for photosynthesis in plants, evolved about a billion years ago from an ancient endosymbiotic relationship between a cyanobacteria species and a eukaryotic cell.
