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Eliot C. Bush

Professor of Biology

F.W. Olin Science Center, Room 1240
301 Platt Blvd.
Claremont, CA 91711
909.607.0653
Eliot_Bush@hmc.edu

Education and Professional Experience

  • AB, Harvard University
  • PhD, California Institute of Technology
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago

Research Interests

Our current work is in the area of microbial genome evolution. We’ve developed a computational approach to reconstructing the history of genomic island insertions in clades of closely related microbes (). We are now improving various aspects of this method, and using it to study patterns of horizontal transfer across the tree of life. Additional information can be found at our .

For a Wider Audience

  • (Scientific American 11/2023)
  • (Scientific American 6/2020)
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Teaching

  • Bio 46: Introduction to biology
  • Bio 23: Biology laboratory
  • Bio 118b: Introduction to computational biology
  • Bio 129: Human evolution
  • Writ 1: Introduction to Academic Writing

Publications

Books

  • Momand J, and Bush E. , 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. 2025.
  • Libeskind-Hadas R, and Bush E. . Cambridge University Press. 2014.

Selected Articles and Chapters

  • *Liu, N., *Gonzalez TA, *Fischer J, *Hong C, *Johnson M, Mawhorter R, *Mugnatto F, *Soh R, *Somji S, Wirth JS, Libeskind-Hadas R, and Bush EC. . BMC Bioinformatics. 24(295). 2023.
  • Wirth JS, Bush EC. . Nucleic Acids Research. 51(7). 2023.
  • *Liu J, Mawhorter R, *Liu N, *Santichaivekin S, Bush E, Libeskind-Hadas R. . BMC Bioinformatics. 22(394). 2021.
  • Bush EC, Adolph SC, Donaldson-Matasci MC, Hur JH, and Schulz D. Journal of College Science Teaching. 50(3). 2021. []
  • Bush EC, *Clark AE, *DeRanek CA, *Eng A, *Forman J, *Heath K, *Lee AB, Stoebel DM, *Wang Z, *Wilber M, *Wu H. . BMC Bioinformatics. 19(32). 2018. []
  • *Wong GT, Bonocora RP, *Schep AN, *Beeler SM, Fong AJ, *Shull LM, Batachari LE, *Dillon M, Evans C, *Becker CJ, Bush EC, Hardin J, Wade JT, and Stoebel DM. Genome-Wide Transcriptional Response to Varying RpoS Levels in Escherichia coli K-12. J Bacteriol. 199:e00755-16. 2017.
  • Drewell, RA, Bush EC, Remnant EJ, *Wong GT, *Beeler SM, *Stringham JL, Lim J, Gouldie F, and Oldroyd BP. The dynamic DNA methylation cycle from egg to sperm in the honey bee Apis mellifera. Development. 141(13):2702-11. 2014.
  • *Beeler, SM, *Wong GT, Zheng JM, Bush EC, Remnant EJ, Oldroyd BP, and Drewell RA. Whole Genome DNA Methylation Profile of the Jewel Wasp (Nasonia vitripennis). G3: Genes Genomes Genetics, g3-113. 2013.
  • Bush EC, Clark AE*, DeBoever CM*, Haynes LE*, Hussain S*, Ma S*, McDermott MM*, Novak AM*, Wentworth JS*. (2012) . PLoS ONE 7(11): e48920.
  • Nevarez PA*, DeBoever CM*, Freeland B*J, Quitt MA* & Bush EC. . BMC Bioinformatics, 11(462). 2010.

* undergraduate author