Daniel R. Bush at Café Sci2

Dr. Daniel R. Bush is a professor of plant biology at Colorado State University. He is the former Chair of the Department of Biology at CSU and is now the Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs. His research focuses on how plants allocate organic nutrients between organs, how changes in nutrient availability alters gene expression, and the discovery of genes that control biomass production. Dr. Bush's research is currently funded by the USDA-AFRI and the US Department of Energy. He is also Co-PI of a NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program. He is an editor for three professional journals and has served on a variety of federal grant panels and private advisory boards. He is a past president of the American Society of Plant Biologists and past Chair of Section O, Agriculture, Food and Renewable Resources for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He earned his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley, and was a professor of plant biology and an USDA-ARS scientist at the University of Illinois from 1988 until 2003 before accepting the Chair position at CSU.