Contact Information
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 874501
Tempe, AZ 85287-4501
Phone: (480) 965-1578
Fax: (480) 965-6899
msr@asu.edu
Education
- Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Ecology and Evolution, 2000.
- B.A., Northwestern University, Majors in Biology, Geology, & Anthropology, 1994.
Professional Experience
- Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 2008-present.
- Member, Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University,
2003-present.
- Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 2003-2008.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Arizona State University, 2003.
- Faculty Research Associate to Sudhir Kumar, Department of Biology, Arizona State University, 2000-2002.
- Graduate Research Assistant to Robert R. Sokal, Department of Ecology & Evolution, State University of New
York at Stony Brook, 1995-1999.
- Graduate Research Assistant to Manuel Lerdau, Department of Ecology & Evolution, State University of New York
at Stony Brook, 1998.
- Short Term Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 1997.
- Intern, Vertebrate Fossils Department, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1991.
Working Groups/Workshops
- SEED: Proposal to develop a novel journal concept for evolutionary meta-analyses, Working Group,
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC, 2006-2007.
- Meta-analysis in ecology: Lessons, challenges and future, Working Group,
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, 2006-2007.
- MARC Winter Institute, National Academies Summer Institutes on Undergraduate Education in Biology,
Santa Cruz, CA, 2005.
- Meta-Analysis: Synthesis across studies in plant pathology,
Workshop, American Phytopathological Society annual meeting, Milwaukee, WI, 2002.
- Integrating the statistical modeling of
spatial data in ecology, Working Group, National Center for Ecological
Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, 1999-2000.
Current Membership in Scientific and Professional Societies
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Sigma Xi
- Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
- Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
- Society for the Study of Evolution
- Society of Systematic Biologists