Contact Information

School of Life Sciences and Sustainability
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

Phone: (804) 827-0026
msrosenberg@vcu.edu

Education

• Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Ecology & Evolution, 2000.
• B.A., Northwestern University, Majors in Biology, Geology, and Anthropology, 1994

Research Positions and Employment

• Professor, School of Life Sciences and Sustainability, Virginia Commonwealth University (2025–present).
• Director and Professor, Center for Biological Data Science, Virginia Commonwealth University (2022–2025).
• Director and Associate Professor, Center for Biological Data Science, Virginia Commonwealth University (2021–2022).
• Director and Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University (2018–2021).
• Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University (2008–2018).
• Member, Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University (2010–2015).
• Sabbatical Fellow, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC (2009–2010).
• Member, Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University (2003–2010).
• Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University (2003–2008).
• Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Arizona State University (2003).
• Faculty Research Associate (to Dr. Sudhir Kumar), Department of Biology, Arizona State University (2000–2002).
• Graduate Research Assistant (to Dr. Robert R. Sokal), Department of Ecology & Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1995–1999).
• Graduate Research Assistant (to Dr. Manuel Lerdau), Department of Ecology & Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1998).
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Ecology & Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1994–1995, 1998–2000).
• Short Term Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (1997).
• Intern, Vertebrate Fossils Department, Carnegie Museum of Natural History (1991).
• Computing Consultant, Northwestern University Information Technology (1991–1994).

Professional Service

• Society
  • Council Member, Society of Systematic Biologists (2014–2016)
  • Principal co-organizer, Annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (2006)
• Associate Editor
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution (2014–2023)
  • Evolution (2012–2014)

Working Groups/Workshops

• Urban Evolutionary and Ecological 'Omics (Co-Organizer), SMBE Satellite Meeting, Washington, DC (2022).
• Hackathons, interoperability, and phylogenetics (Leadership team), National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC (2011–2014).
• Developing a Roadmap for The Future of Landscape Genomics (Invited Working Group Member), National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC (2013).
• An interdisciplinary approach to advancing landscape genetics (Lead PI), National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA (2009–2011).
• SEED: Proposal to develop a novel journal concept for evolutionary meta-analyses (Invited Working Group Member), National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC (2006–2007).
• Meta-analysis in ecology: Lessons, challenges and future (Invited Working Group Member), National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA (2006–2007).
• MARC Winter Institute (Participant), National Academies Summer Institutes on Undergraduate Education in Biology, Santa Cruz, CA (2005).
• Meta-Analysis: Synthesis across studies in plant pathology (Invited Workshop Instructor), American Phytopathological Society annual meeting, Milwaukee, WI (2002).
• Integrating the statistical modeling of spatial data in ecology (Invited Working Group Member), National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA (1999–2000).

Professional Societies

• Academic Data Science Alliance (2023–present)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (1999–present)
• American Society of Naturalists (1995–2004, 2017–present)
• Animal Behavior Society (1997)
• Citizen Science Association (2014–present)
• International Association for Landscape Ecology (2009)
• International Society for Computational Biology (2018–present)
• Scientific Research Society of North America (Sigma Xi) (1998–present)
• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (2007)
• Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (2003–present)
• Society of Systematic Biologists (1995–present)
• Society for the Study of Evolution (1995–present)
• The Crustacean Society (2017–present)