Susan Bustos

Susan Bustos is a graduate student in biochemistry at the University of Toronto where she researches the structure and misfunction of mutant red blood cell proteins. She writes and publishes ladyscientist, a zine about career anxiety, crafty experiments and other things of concern to women in science. Susan’s a card-carrying member of the Stitch’n’Brunch knitting guild which has inspired such projects as knitted protein models. She’s come to the realization that she must learn crochet if she really wants to recreate the 3D world of cellular nanostructures into yarn macromodels. When not experimenting in the lab or on the knitting needles, she’s playing bass in the indie/glam/pop band Tomboyfriend. She lives in Toronto with her sci-fi writer husband where they like to make strange little movie shorts about dreams and video games.