Maloof Lab:Susan Bush

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Susan Bush
Post-doctoral researcher
University of California Davis
1 Shields Avenue
Davis, CA, USA
Email: smbush@ucdavis.edu

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Julin Maloof's lab where I am learning about tomato genetics. I am working on a project grounded in the tomato shade avoidance response and also involving the relationship and differences between domesticated varieties and wild species of tomato.

Education

• 2011 Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Advisor: Patrick J. Krysan.
• 2004 B.A. in Biology from Macalester College, St. Paul, MN. Advisor: Paul J. Overvoorde.

Publications

• Palmer CM, Bush SM, Maloof JN. Phenotypic and developmental plasticity in plants. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. (in press)

• Su S, Clark KA, Gibbs NM, Bush SM, Krysan PJ (2011) Ice-Cap: A Method for Growing Arabidopsis and Tomato Plants in 96-well Plates for High-Throughput Genotyping. Journal of Visual Experiments 57: e3280, DOI: 10.3791/3280.

• Bush SM, Krysan PJ (2010) iTILLING: A personalized approach to the identification of mutations in specialized genetic backgrounds. Plant Physiology 154: 25-35.

• Bush SM, Krysan PJ (2007) Mutational evidence that the Arabidopsis MAP kinase MPK6 is involved in anther, inflorescence, and embryo development. Journal of Experimental Botany 58: 2181-2191.