Julie A. Law

Julie Law (born c. ) is an American molecular and cellular biologist. Law's pioneering work on DNA methylation patterns led to the discovery of the role of the CLASSY protein family in DNA methylation. Law is currently an associate professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Early life and education Law began her scientific career at the Oregon State University where she completed a B.S. in biochemistry and biophysics. She completed her undergraduate research in the laboratory of Dr. Walt Ream. She moved to the east coast to complete her doctoral work in biochemistry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Barbara Sollner-Webb Following her doctoral work, Law moved back to the west coast to pursue postdoctoral training at the University of California, Los Angeles in the lab of Dr. Steven Jacobsen,

Career and research Law's postdoctoral work, studying DNA methylation at UC Los Angeles, was followed by her recruitment for a faculty position at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in 2012. Law is currently working with several other Salk scientists as a part of the Harnessing Plants Initiative to engineer plants to store more carbon dioxide as a means to harness more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to combat climate change.

Publications Selected publications: Wu, S., Turner, K.M., Nguyen, N., Raviram, R., Erb, M., Santini, J., Luebeck, J., Rajkumar, U., Diao, Y., Li, B., Zhang, W., Jameson, N., Corces, M.R., Granja, J.M., Chen, X., Coruh, C., Abnousi, A., Houston, J., Ye, Z., Hu, R., Yu, M., Kim, H., Law, J.A., Verhaak, R.G.W., Hu, M., Furnari, F.B., Chang, H.Y., Ren, B., Bafna, V., Mischel, P.S. Circular ecDNA promotes accessible chromatin and high oncogene expression. (2019) Nature. 575(7784):699-703. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1763-5 Argueso, C.T., Assmann, S.M., Birnbaum, K.D., Chen, S., Dinneny, J.R., Doherty, C.J., Eveland, A.L., Friesner, J., Greenlee, V.R., Law, J.A., Marshall-Colón, A., Mason, G.A., O'Lexy, R., Peck, S.C., Schmitz, R.J., Song, L., Stern, D., Varagona, M.J., Walley, J.W., Williams, C.M. Directions for research and training in plant omics: Big Questions and Big Data. (2019) Plant Direct. 3(4):e00133. DOI: 10.1002/pld3.133 Bourbousse, C., Vegesna, N., Law, J.A. SOG1 activator and MYB3R repressors regulate a complex DNA damage network in . (2018) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1810582115 Zhou, M., Palanca, A.M.S., Law, J.A. Locus-specific control of the de novo DNA methylation pathway in Arabidopsis by the CLASSY family. (2018) Nature Genetics. 50(6). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0115-y Li, D., Palanca, A.M.S., Won, S.Y., Gao, L., Feng, Y., Vashisht, A.A., Liu, L., Zhao, Y., Liu, X., Wu, X., Li, S., Le, B., Kim, Y.J., Yang, G., Li, S., Liu, J., Wohlschlegel, J.A., Guo, H., Mo, B., Chen, X., Law, J.A. The MBD7 complex promotes expression of methylated transgenes without significantly altering their methylation status. (2017) Elife. 6. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.19893 Zhou, M., Law, J.A. RNA Pol IV and V in gene silencing: Rebel polymerases evolving away from Pol II's rules. (2015) Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 27:154-64. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2015.07.005 Law, J.A., Du, J., Hale, C.J., Feng, S., Krajewski, K., Palanca, A.M., Strahl, B.D., Patel, D.J., Jacobsen, S.E. Polymerase IV occupancy at RNA-directed DNA methylation sites requires SHH1. (2013) Nature. 498(7454):385-9. DOI: 10.1038/nature12178 Zhong, X., Hale, C.J., Law, J.A., Johnson, L.M., Feng, S., Tu, A., Jacobsen, S.E. DDR complex facilitates global association of RNA polymerase V to promoters and evolutionarily young transposons. (2012) Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 19(9):870-5. DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2354 Law, J.A., Vashisht, A.A., Wohlschlegel, J.A., Jacobsen, S.E. SHH1, a homeodomain protein required for DNA methylation, as well as RDR2, RDM4, and chromatin remodeling factors, associate with RNA polymerase IV. (2011) PLOS Genetics. 7(7):e1002195. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002195 Greenberg, M.V., Ausin, I., Chan, S.W., Cokus, S.J., Cuperus, J.T., Feng, S., Law, J.A., Chu, C., Pellegrini, M., Carrington, J.C., Jacobsen, S.E. Identification of genes required for de novo DNA methylation in Arabidopsis. (2011) Epigenetics. 6(3):344-54. Rajakumara, E., Law, J.A., Simanshu, D.K., Voigt, P., Johnson, L.M., Reinberg, D., Patel, D.J., Jacobsen, S.E. A dual flip-out mechanism for 5mC recognition by the Arabidopsis SUVH5 SRA domain and its impact on DNA methylation and H3K9 dimethylation in vivo. (2011) Genes & Development. 25(2):137-52. DOI: 10.1101/gad.1980311 Guo, L., Yu, Y., Law, J.A., Zhang, X. SET DOMAIN GROUP2 is the major histone H3 lysine [corrected] 4 trimethyltransferase in Arabidopsis. (2010) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107(43):18557-62. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010478107 Law, J.A., Ausin, I., Johnson, L.M., Vashisht, A.A., Zhu, J.K., Wohlschlegel, J.A., Jacobsen, S.E. A protein complex required for polymerase V transcripts and RNA- directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis. (2010) Current Biology. 20(10):951-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.062 Law, J.A., Jacobsen, S.E. Establishing, maintaining and modifying DNA methylation patterns in plants and animals. (2010) Nature Reviews. Genetics. 11(3):204-20. DOI: 10.1038/nrg2719 Law, J.A., Jacobsen, S.E. Molecular biology. Dynamic DNA methylation. (2009) Science. 323(5921):1568-9. DOI: 10.1126/science.1172782 Johnson, L.M., Law, J.A., Khattar, A., Henderson, I.R., Jacobsen, S.E. SRA-domain proteins required for DRM2-mediated de novo DNA methylation. (2008) PLOS Genetics. 4(11):e1000280. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000280

Awards Law has received the following awards:

2015 Rita Allen Scholar Award 2007 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health 2000 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Fellowship, Oregon State University