Courses:  Biological Science I (BIOL 121), Fundamentals of Genetics (BIOL 350), Advanced Genetics (BIOL 442)

Research Interests: I am interested in the factors associated with maintaining diversity in plants that reproduce asexually. I also study the mating systems, gene flow, and diversity found in temperate and tropical epiphytic plants

• Genetics of temperate and tropical plants
• Mating and Breeding systems of tropical epiphytes
• Clonal diversity
• Genotoxicity

Selected Publications:

Bush, S.P. and J.E. Guilbeau. 2009. Early autonomous selfing in the hummingbird-pollinated epiphyte Pitcairnia brittoniana (Bromeliaceae). Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 136: 313-321.

Bush, S.P. 2009. Prior autonomous selfing in the hummingbird-pollinated epiphyte Tillandsia multicaulis (Bromeliaceae). Selbyana 30: 114-121.

Bush, S.P. and M.E. Stelato. 2007. Clonal diversity in differently aged patches of the dune grass Uniola paniculata. Southeastern Naturalist 6: 359-364.

Bush, S.P. and W.E. Kutz. 2006. Geographical variation in the widespread temperate epiphyte, Epidendrum magnoliae (Muhlenberg). Selbyana 27: 22-28.

Bush, S.P., P.E. Hart, and E.M. Russell. 2006. Investigating DNA damage. American Biology Teacher 68: 267-271.