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= Susan Mary Rosenberg (Scientist) =

Susan Mary Rosenberg ( - present) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and microbiologist. Rosenberg is currently teaching at Baylor College of Medicine.

Rosenberg's most significant contribution to her field was the the understanding of how mutations in DNA happen. The theory proposes that mutation is not random, but is triggered by stress responses within the organism. This also increases the rate of evolution of phenotypes within these organisms.

Biography
Susan Rosenberg was born and raised in Massapequa, a town on Long Island in the state of New York.

She received a PhD in Biology (Molecular Genetics) at the University of Oregon's Institute of Molecular Biology in l986, under advisor:  Franklin W. Stahl.

She received a MS in Biology from the University of Oregon in 1981

She also received a BA, High Honors, in Biology (Chemistry, Art) at the State University of New York College at Potsdam, in 1980.

Marriage and family
Rosenberg married Philip John Hastings on April 9th, 2000. They met at a scientific conference at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. They have one daughter, Helen Hastings and have been married for almost 17 years.

Scientific Career
Rosenberg is a molecular biologist whose PhD with Frank Stahl (at the University of Oregon) and postdoctoral work with Miroslav Radman (in Paris) were focused on DNA recombination.

Her first independent position was on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. She later moving to Houston, Texas to work at Baylor College of Medicine, where is a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, with secondary appointments in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the Department of Molecular Virology.

Since 2013, Rosenberg founded and leads the Cancer Evolvability Program in the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine.

She currently resides in Houston, working in E. coli bacteria.

Her lab discovered molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis activated by stress responses that increase genetic diversity, potentially accelerating evolution, when cells are poorly adapted to their environments.

Her work has changed the scientific understanding of genomic plasticity, host-pathogen adaptation, antibiotic resistance, cancer development and evolution.

Rosenberg founded the Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution. She also holds the Ben F Love Chair in Cancer Research at Baylor College of Medicine, leads the Cancer Evolvability Program in the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, serves as a Council Delegate to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been a member of the Senior Editorial Boards of Science magazine and PLoS Genetics.

Honors and Awards
- elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, 2013

- American Society for Microbiology Distinguished Lecturer, 2012-2014

- The Michael E. DeBakey Award for Excellence in Research in both 2001 & 2014

- elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010

- the Biosphere and Humanity Medal from the Russian Academies of Medicine and Science, 2010

- the NIH Director's Pioneer Award, 2009

- Baylor College of Medicine Graduate Student Awards for Teaching Excellence in 2015, 2008, 2006, 2001 & 2000

- The Eli Lilly National Cancer Institute of Canada William Rawls Prize, 1995

- the Young Scientist Award of the Genetics Society of Canada, 1996

-Medical Research Council of Canada Scientist 1997-2002 (declined 9/1997 onward)

- Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Scholar, 1992-1997, and Senior Scholar 1997-2002 (declined 9/1997 onward)

Articles
Rosenberg has published over 135 scholarly articles to date, most of which can be found through google scholar at this address:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=p2QOV-oAAAAJ&pagesize=100&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Notes and references
[1] http://profiles.viictr.org/display/BCM/susan-rosenberg

[2] https://www.bcm.edu/people/view/susan-rosenberg-ph-d/yeast-amoebae-plants-and-mammalian-cell-culture-genetics-faculty-yeast-amoebae-plants-and-mammalian-cell-culture/b25dda3d-ffed-11e2-be68-080027880ca6/1bb1da26-c429-11e3-a42d-005056b104be

[3] http://astrobiology.illinois.edu/faculty/susan-m-rosenberg

[4] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=p2QOV-oAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate&cstart=100&pagesize=20