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
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