Assistant Professor of  Biology   Olin, Room 2341 301 Platt Blvd. Claremont, CA 91711 (909) 607-0653 Eliot_Bush at hmc dot edu Link to schedule/calendar   (viewable with g.hmc.edu account)

Education & professional experience

• A.B., Harvard University
• Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago

Teaching

• Bio 52: Introduction to biology
• CS5 Green: a biology themed introduction to computer science
• Bio 111: Molecular biology laboratory
• Bio 118: Introduction to mathematical and computational biology
• Bio 188: Computational biology
• Bio 155: Human evolution

Research Interests

Professor Bush's research group uses computational approaches to study evolution. This includes some more traditional computational biology projects, developing algorithms to analyze sequence data. And some more theoretical projects that involve modeling both molecular processes and evolution. Additional information can be found at their lab web site.

Selected Publications

Bush EC, Clark AE*, DeBoever CM*, Haynes LE*, Hussain S*, Ma S*, McDermott MM*, Novak AM*, Wentworth JS*. (2012) Modeling the Role of Negative Cooperativity in Metabolic Regulation and Homeostasis. PLoS ONE 7(11): e48920. (article)

Nevarez PA*, DeBoever CM*, Freeland B*J, Quitt MA* & Bush EC. Context dependent substitution biases vary within the human genome. BMC Bioinformatics, 11(462), 2010. (article)

Bush EC & Lahn BT. A genome-wide screen for noncoding elements important in primate evolution. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8:17, 2008. (article)

Bush EC & Lahn BT. The evolution of word composition in metazoan promoter sequence. PLoS Computational Biology, 2(11):e150, 2006. (article)

* undergraduate author