Susan I. Fuerstenberg, Ph.D.

President and Chief Operating Officer

Genome Project Solutions, Inc.

1024 Promenade St

Hercules, CA 94547

1-877-867-0146

SIFuerst@GenomeProjectSolutions.com

 

 

General qualifications

 

Scientific Experience in both academia and the corporate world

Scientific Training emphasizing molecular biology and evolution

Team Management Experience by directing several successful production and R & D teams

Communications Experience by writing several successful grants, authoring many papers and meeting presentations, and creating hundreds of slide presentations, protocols, and SOPs

Teaching Experience by providing many years of undergraduate education

Education

 

B.A. Biology St Mary's College, Winona, MN 1980

M.S. Biological Sciences Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 1988

Ph.D. Molecular Biology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 1996

Experience

 

Anawah, Inc. Seattle,  WA and Davis, CA.  2002-2004.  Director of Wheat and Cassava research programs. Project development, team management, grant writing, industry presentations.

 

Anawah, Inc. Seattle,  WA and Davis, CA.  2001-2002.  Director of DNA Preparation and Analysis Team.  QA/QC, product development, team management.

 

University of California, Berkeley, CA, and USDA Plant Gene Expression Center 2000-2001.

The Evolution of Floral Homeotic Gene Expression.  USDA funded research project.

 

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1996-2000.  Molecular Evolution of Plant Homeotic Gene Expression.  NSF/Sloan Funded research project.

 

University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.  1989-1996. Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Evolution.  Anther Specific Gene Expression in Tomato and Tobacco.  Regulation of Sucrose Synthase During Early Tomato Fruit Development.

 

Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 1988-1989.  Isolation of Paralogous Genes by Hybridization.

 

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL.  1986-1988.  Masters Degree in Biology.  Distribution of retrotransposons in maize and its wild relatives, the teosintes.

 

Selected Publications

 

Fuerstenberg, SI and MA Johns.  1990.  Distribution of Bs1 Retrotransposons in Zea and Related Genera.  Theoretical and Applied Genetics 80: 680-686.

 

Johns, MA, MS Babcock, SM Fuerstenberg, SI Fuerstenberg, M Freeling and RB Simpson.  1989.  An Unusually Compact Retrotransposon in Maize.  Plant Molecular Biology 12:  633-642.

 

Johns, MA, SI Fuerstenberg and CA Hennelly.  1990.  Non-random Chromosomal Distribution of Ac-like Sequences in Maize.  Genetical Research, Cambridge 55: 71-78.

 

Hanson, MA, BS Gaut, AO Stec, SI Fuerstenberg, MM Goodman, EH Coe and JF Doebley.  1996.  Molecular and phenotypic evolution of c1, a regulator of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Zea.  Genetics 143:  1395-1407.

 

Boore, JL and SI Fuerstenberg. 1999. Entamoeba histolytica:  A derived, mitochondriate eukaryote? Trends in Microbiology 7:  426-428.

 

Fuerstenberg, SI, PA Bucciaglia and AG Smith.  2000.  Molecular characterization of an anther-specific gene from tobacco shows sequence similarity to a tapetum-specific gene from tomato. Sexual Plant Reproduction 12: 250-252.

 

Slade AJ, SI Fuerstenberg, D Loeffler, MN Steine and D Facciotti.  2005.  A reverse genetic, nontransgenic approach to wheat crop improvement by TILLING.  Nature Biotechnology 23: 75-81.

 

Selected Presentations

 

Homeotic Genes and the Origins of Angiosperms, 1997.  MW Frohlich, M Booker and SI Fuerstenberg.  Keystone Conference on Evolution of Plant Development.  Taos, NM.

 

MADS-box Genes in Welwitschia:  Flower Origins and Phylogenetics, 1998.  SI Fuerstenberg and WM Brown.  Sixth International Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.  Vancouver, British Columbia.

 

Data, Post-Genomics, 1998.  SI Fuerstenberg.  Symposium on Biodiversity. International Institute for Advanced Studies.  Kyoto, Japan.

 

TILLING:  Targeted Induced Local Lesions in Genomes, 2002.  SI Fuerstenberg.  Molecular Evolution, Genomics, Bioinformatics.  Sorrento, Italy.

 

Detection of an Alleleic Series in Soy and Wheat through TILLING,  2003.  A Slade, D Facciotti, S Fuerstenberg, M Steine, D Loeffler,  P Jones, C McCallum and V Knauf.  American Society of Plant Biologists Annual Meeting.  Honolulu, HI.

 

Grants

 

Happy Cows:  Low Lignin Wheat for Increased Digestibility and for Increased Revenue Opportunity.  DOE/USDA Biomass Research and Development Initiative. 2004.

 

The Evolution of Floral Homeotic Gene Expression-  USDAÕs NRI Program in Plant Developmental Mechanisms.  2000-2001.

 

Molecular Evolution of Plant Homeotic Gene Expression.  NSF/Sloan Grant in Molecular Evolution.  1996-1998.