JUDY CALLIS

 

PROFESSOR and Vice-Chair for Academic Personnel

Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Division of Biological Sciences, UC-Davis

1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616

(530)-752-1015 office; (530)725-3085 Fax,  E-mail: jcallis@ucdavis.edu

 

EDUCATION

1973-1977     A.B.                 Biology                       Washington University, St. Louis, MO

1981               M.S.                Botany                       University of Illinois- Champaign-Urbana         

1987               Ph.D.              Biology                       Stanford University, Stanford, CA                       

1987-1989     Postdoc          Plant Biochemistry University of WI-Madison                                                              

 

ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

1977-1980         Research Technician, UW-Madison, Department of Plant Pathology,

    Professors  J. Kemp and R. Durbin, supervisors

1989-1993         Assistant Professor, UC-Davis, Department of Bioch. & Biophysics

1993-2001         Associate Professor, UC-Davis, Section of Mol. and Cellular Biology

2001-present                Professor, UC-Davis, Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

McKnight Foundation Predoctoral Trainee (1983-1986)

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Plant Biology (1987-1989)

National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Faculty Award (1991-1996)

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002)

Awarded, Ruth R. and Paul K. Stumpf Chair in Plant Biochemistry (7/2005-7/2010)

 

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

Lecturer, Davis High School- to two Biotechnology Classes on Plant Transformation and developed two laboratory exercises; one in plant genetics and one in Arabidopsis bioinformatics with Anne Moriarty, Davis High School Science Teacher.  2001-2003

Member Curriculum Committee (2002-2004) to redesign the UC-Davis Biological Sciences core courses (completely redesigned both lower and upper division core courses).

Member, UC-Davis Graduate Council, Governing Committee for graduate affairs 1994-2000) and Chair of an Ad hoc Committee that drafted graduate mentoring guidelines (adopted).

Member of Editorial Boards, Journal  of Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology, and Faculty of 1000.

Member of Executive Committees, NIH Molecular and Cellular Biology Pre-doctoral Training Grant, NIH-NIGMS training grant- the Initiative for Minority Student Development. (B. Horowitz, PI), training grant for underrepresented minorities; and Member of Execommittee of  NIH Training Grant in Molecular and Cellular Biology (C. Erickson, PI).

 

BIBLIOGRAHPY OF PUBLICATIONS  (total of 49)

Five Relevant Publications:

 

1. Stone, S., H. Hauksdottir, A. Troy, J. Herschleb, E. Kraft, and J. Callis (2005) Functional analysis of the RING type ubiquitin ligase family of Arabidopsis thaliana L. Plant Physiol. 137: 13-30

2. Pablo Figueroa, Giuliana Gusmaroli, Giovanna Serino, Jessica Habashi, Ligeng Ma, Yunping Shen, Suhua Feng, Magnolia Bostick, Judy Callis, Hanjo Hellmann, and Xing Wang Deng 2005  Arabidopsis Has Two Redundant Cullin3 Proteins That Are Essential for Embryo Development and that Interact with RBX1 and BTB Proteins to Form Multisubunit E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Complexes in Vivo.  Plant Cell 17, 1180-1195.

3. Callis, J and Ling, R 2005 Preparation, Characterization, and Use of Tagged Ubiquitins. Methods in Enzymol. Vol 399, 51-63, in press.

4.  Callis, J. and R.D. Vierstra (2000) Protein degradation in signaling. Current Opin. Plant Biol. 3: 381-386.

5.  Schwechheimer C., G. Serino, J. Callis, W.L. Crosby, S. Lyapina, R. Deshaies, W.L. Gray, M. Estelle, and X.-W. Deng (2001) Interactions of the COP9 signalosome with the E3 ubiquitin ligase SCFTIR in mediating auxin response. Science 292: 1379-1382.

 

 

            Five Other Publications:

 

1.  Ramos, J., N. Zenser, O. Leyser, and J. Callis (2001) Rapid degradation of auxin/Indoleacetic acid proteins requires conserved amino acids of domain II and is proteasome dependent. Plant Cell 13: 2349-2360.

2.  Zenser, N., A. Ellsmore, C. Leasure, and J. Callis (2001) Auxin modulates the degradation rate of Aux/IAA proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad, Sci. USA  98: 11795-11800.

3.  Zenser, N., K.A. Dreher, S.R. Edwards, and J. Callis (2003) Acceleration of Aux/IAA proteolysis is specific for auxin and independent of AXR1. Plant J.  35: 285-294.

4.  Laplaza, J.M., M. Bostick, D.T. Scholes, M.J. Curcio, and J. Callis (2004) Saccharomyces cerevisiae ubiquitin-like protein Rub1 conjugates to cullin proteins Rtt101 and Cul3 in vivo. Biochem. J. 377: 459-467. 

5.  Bostick, M. S. Lochhead, A. Honda, S. Palmer, and J. Callis (2004) RUB1 and RUB2 (Related to Ubiquitin) are redundant, essential, and regulate vegetative growth, auxin signaling, and ethylene production in Arabidopsis.  Plant Cell 16: 2418-2432.

 

COLLABORATORS

Crosby,W.L. Windsor University Canada                Curcio, M.J  Wadsworth Center

Deng, X-W. Yale University                                        Deshaies, R. Caltech

Estelle, E. Indiana University                                     Goebl, M. Ind. Sch. of Medicine

Gray, W. University of Minnesota                              Ito, M. University of Tokyo

Leyser, O. University of York                          Linghu, B. Indiana School of Medicine

Lyapina, S.  Caltech                                        McClinton,R,  Grand Valley State Univ.

Nishida, I. Unive  rsity of Tokyo                     Scholes, D.T.  Wadsworth Center

Schwechheimer C. Max Planck                    Serino, G.  unknown

Somerville, S. Carnegie Institution               Vierstra, R. University of WI-Madison

Yoshida, S.  John Innes Institute                             

 

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL ADVISORS

Dr. David Ho                  Washington University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Dr. Virginia Walbot       Stanford University

Dr. Richard Vierstra     University of WI-Madison

 

PAST GRADUATE (total of 12 including 4 current) AND POSTDOCTORAL ADVISEES (4 total) since 2000.

Ph.D:

Dr. Jose Laplaza, Post-doctoral Scholar, University of Wisconsin

Dr. Nathan Zenser, Sigma Chemical Company, St. Louis, MO

Dr. Jason Ramos, Pharmacyclics, Inc, Sunnyvale CA

Dr. Jennifer Chandler, none

Post-Doctoral:

Dr. Chetana Rao-Naik,  Medarix, South San Francisco, CA