Epernicus: Magnolia Bostick, Ph.D.

Magnolia Bostick, Ph.D.

Position:
Post Doctoral Fellow

Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Advisor:
Steve Jacobsen
Degrees:

Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)

B.Sc., Biochemistry, Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA)
Past Advisors:

Judy Callis (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Stephen Quirk (as Undergraduate Student)

Robert Bateman (as Undergraduate Student)
Research:
I study the role of the VIM/ORTH proteins in maintaining DNA methylation in plants.
Honors:
2008-present National Institutes of Health, NRSA

2006-2008 American Heart Association, Postdoctoral Fellowship

2003 Cold Spring Harbor Travel Award

2002 NAASC (North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee) Travel Award

2001 Jastro-Shields Graduate Research Scholarship

2001-2003 NIH, Molecular and Cellular Biology Training Grant

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Magnolia Bostick's Publications (7)

The SRA domain of UHRF1 flips 5-methylcytosine out of the DNA helix.
Hashimoto H, Horton JR, Zhang X, Bostick M, Jacobsen SE, Cheng X

Nature. 2008 Oct 9;455(7214):826-9
ORTH/VIM proteins that regulate DNA methylation are functional ubiquitin E3 ligases.
Kraft E, Bostick M, Jacobsen SE, Callis J

The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology. 2008 Jul 16
UHRF1 plays a role in maintaining DNA methylation in mammalian cells.
Bostick M, Kim JK, Estève PO, Clark A, Pradhan S, Jacobsen SE

Science (New York, N.Y.). 2007 Sep 21;317(5845):1760-4
The SRA methyl-cytosine-binding domain links DNA and histone methylation.
Johnson LM, Bostick M, Zhang X, Kraft E, Henderson I, Callis J, Jacobsen SE

Current biology : CB. 2007 Feb 20;17(4):379-84
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.
Figueroa P, Gusmaroli G, Serino G, Habashi J, Ma L, Shen Y, Feng S, Bostick M, Callis J, Hellmann H, Deng XW

The Plant cell. 2005 Apr;17(4):1180-95
Related to ubiquitin 1 and 2 are redundant and essential and regulate vegetative growth, auxin signaling, and ethylene production in Arabidopsis.
Bostick M, Lochhead SR, Honda A, Palmer S, Callis J

The Plant cell. 2004 Sep;16(9):2418-32
Saccharomyces cerevisiae ubiquitin-like protein Rub1 conjugates to cullin proteins Rtt101 and Cul3 in vivo.
Laplaza JM, Bostick M, Scholes DT, Curcio MJ, Callis J

The Biochemical journal. 2004 Jan 15;377(Pt 2):459-67

Magnolia Bostick's Posters and Presentations (3)

A new component in DNA methylation maintenance (presentation)
Magnolia Bostick

Nucleic Acids Gordon Conference; 06/2008
RUB1 family members function in multiple hormone response pathways and regulate ethylene production in dark-grown seedlings. (presentation)
Magnolia Bostick

14th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research; 07/2003
Do the Cysteines in Human Glutaminyl Cyclase Play a Catalytic Role? (presentation)
Magnolia Bostick

Mississippi Academy of Sciences; 01/1997

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