Positions:

1998-Present	Associate Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, UC Santa Barbara
1998-Present	Adjunct Associate Professor,  Dept. Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara
1990-1997	Assistant/Associate Professor, Rutgers University, Dept. of Biological Sciences
1989-1990	Assistant Research Botanist, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Botany
1984-1989	Postdoctoral Associate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Botany
1979-1983	Research Associate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Plant and Soil Biology
1977-1979	Statistician, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Plant and Soil Biology

Awards:

• Henry Rutgers Fellow, 1990

• EMBO Workshop Fellowship, Patch Clamp Techniques, Göttingen, West Germany, 1987

• Presidents Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1980-1981

Selected Publications:

• Rodriguez MT and DS Bush. 1999. Gibberellin-induced cell death in the wheat aleurone. Plant Physiology. (submitted).

• Subbaiah C, DS Bush, and M Sachs. 1998. Mitochondria contribution to the anoxic Ca²⁺ signal in maize suspension-cultured sells. Plant Physiology 118: 759-771.

• Silverman P, A Assiahmah, and DS Bush. 1997. Cytokinin action in root hairs of Medicago sativa. Planta 205: 25-31.

• Kuo A, S Cappellutti, M Cervantes-Cervantes, M Rodriquez, and DS Bush. 1996. Okadaic acid, a protein phosphatase inhibitor, blocks calcium changes, gene expression and cell death induced by gibberellin in wheat aleurone. The Plant Cell 8:259-269.

• Bush DS. 1996. Effects of gibberellic acid and environmental factors on cytosolic calcium in wheat aleurone cells. Planta. 199:89-99.

• Bush DS. 1995. Calcium regulation in plant cells and its role in signaling. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiology. Plant Molecular Biology 46:95-122.

• Bush DS and T Wang. 1995. Diversity of calcium efflux transporters in wheat aleurone cells. Planta. 197:19-30.

• Subbaiah C, DS Bush, and M Sachs. 1994. Elevation of cytosolic calcium precedes anoxic gene expression in maize suspension-cultured cells. The Plant Cell 6:1747-1762.

• Bush DS. 1993. Regulation of cytosolic calcium in plants. Plant Physiology 103:7-13.

• Bush DS, AK Biswas, and RL Jones. 1993. Hormonal regulation of Ca²⁺-transport in the endomembrane system of the barley aleurone. Planta 189:507-515.

• Bush DS. 1992. The role of Ca²⁺ in the action of GA in the barley aleurone. In: CM Karssen, LC Van Loon, and D Vreugdenhil, eds. “Progress in plant growth regulation: Proceedings of the 14^th International conference on plant growth substances, Amsterdam, 21-26 July, 1991.” pp. 96-104. Kluwer Academic Pub., Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

• Drøbak BK, DS Bush, RL Jones, AP Dawson, and IB Ferguson. 1992. Analysis of calcium involvement in host-pathogen interactions. In: Gurr, SJ, MJ McPherson, and DJ Bowles eds. “Molecular Plant Pathology: A Practical Approach”. Vol. II, pp. 159-194. IRL Press at Oxford University Press, Cambridge.

• Jones RL, L Sticher and DS Bush. 1991. Secretion of hydrolases from cereal aleurone cells. In: Hawes, C, J Coleman and D Evans, eds. “Endocytosis, Exocytosis and Vesicle Traffic in Plants”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

• Arnalte ME, MJ Cornejo, DS Bush, and RL Jones. 1991. The effect of gibberellic acid on the lipid composition of barley aleurone protoplasts. Plant Science 77:223-232.

• Bush DS, L Sticher, and RL Jones. 1991. Gibberellic acid-regulated a-amylase synthesis and calcium transport in the endoplasmic reticulum of barley aleurone cells. In: “Gibberellins: Tokyo 1989”. pp. 106-113.

• Jones RL and DS Bush. 1991. Gibberellic acid and abscisic acid regulate the level of a BiP cognate in the endoplasmic reticulum of barely aleurone cells. Plant Physiology 97: 456-459.

• Bush DS and RL Jones. 1990. Measuring intracellular Ca²⁺ levels in plant cells using the fluorescent probes, indo-1 and fura-2: progress and prospects. Plant Physiology 93:841-845.

• Bush DS and RL Jones. 1990. Hormonal Regulation of Ca²⁺ transport in microsomal vesicles isolated from barley aleurone layers. Calcium in plant growth and development. Leonard and Hepler eds. American Society of Plant Physiologists 4:60-65.

• DuPont FM, DS Bush, JJ Windle, and RL Jones. 1990. Calcium and proton transport in membrane vesicles from barley roots. Plant Physiol. 94:179-188.

• Sticher L, AK Biswas, DS Bush, and RL Jones. 1990. Heat shock inhibits a-amylase synthesis in barley aleurone without inhibiting the activity of endoplasmic reticulum marker enzymes. Plant Physiol. 92:506-513.

• Hillmer S, DS Bush, DG Robinson, I Zingen-Sell, and RL Jones. 1990. Endomembrane structure and function in barley aleurone protoplasts. Eur. J. Cell Biol. 52:169-173.

• Jones RL and DS Bush. 1990. Regulation of calcium flux and steady state levels by plant growth regulators. In: D. Randall, ed. “Current Topics in Plant Biochemistry and Physiology”. V. 9, pp. 10-19.

• Bush DS, AK Biswas, and RL Jones. 1989. Gibberellic-acid-stimulated Ca²⁺ accumulation in endoplasmic reticulum of barley aleurone: Ca²⁺ transport and steady-state levels. Planta. 178:411-420.

• Bush DS, AK Biswas, and RL Jones. 1989. Calcium transport into the endoplasmic reticulum of barely aleurone is regulated by gibberellic acid. In: Dainty I, MI DeMichelis, E Marre, and F Rasi-Caldogno, eds. “Plant Membrane Transport: The Current Position”. Elsevier, Amsterdam. pp. 237-242.

• Bush DS L Sticher, RV Huystee, D Wagner, and RL Jones. 1989. The calcium requirement for stability and enzymatic activity of two isoforms of barley aleurone a-amylase. J Biol. Chem. 264:19392-19398.