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Education:

1983	Chemistry	Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Second major: German Language
1989	M.A.T. in Biology	Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
1997	Ph.D. in Plant Biology	University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Academic appointments:

1997-98	Postdoctoral Fellow in Evolution and Symbiosis	Lynn Margulis Laboratory University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1998-99	Visiting Scholar in Biology	Clark University
1999-2000	Postdoctoral Fellow in Developmental Genetics	Woodard Laboratory, Mount Holyoke College
1999-2000	Lecturer in Biology	Holy Cross College
2000-2003	Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology	Holy Cross College
2002	Visiting Research Assistant Professor	Lynn Margulis Laboratory University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2003-2005	Postdoctoral Fellow	Witman Laboratory University of Massachusetts Medical School
2005-present	Scientific Associate	Lynn Margulis Laboratory University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Professional memberships:

American Society for Cell Biology
Sigma Xi
International Symbiosis Society

Distinctions and awards:

1991, 1994	Woods Hole Travel Fellowships, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1995	Bigelow Fellowship in Plant Systematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1995
1998	Lounsbery Foundation Grant for authorship
1999	Hughes Educational Grant, Mount Holyoke College
2001	Templeton Foundation Grant in Evolution and Ethics
2004	Kirchstein-NRSA Postdoctoral Training Grant

Publications:

Teal,T.H., M. Chapman and L. Margulis. 1996. Free-Living Spirochetes from Cape Cod Microbial Mats Detected by Electron Microscopy. Microbiologia SEM 12:571-584.

Chapman, M. and D. L. Mulcahy. 1997. Confocal Optical Sectioning for Meiotic Analysis in Oenothera Species and Hybrids. Biotechnic and Histochem. 72:105-110.

Chapman, M. and D. L. Mulcahy. 1997. Effect of Genome-Plastome Interaction on Meiosis and Pollen Development in Oenothera Species and Hybrids. Sexual Plant Reprod. 10:288-292.

Chapman, M. 1998. Meeting Report: 100 Years of Centrioles; Re-Evaluation of Henneguy-Lenhossek Theory. Int. J. of Microbiol. 1:233-236.

Margulis, L. and M. Chapman. 1998. Endosymbioses: Cyclical and Permanent in Evolution. Trends Microbiol. 6: 342-345.

Margulis, L., M. Chapman and D. Sagan. 1998. Superkingdom Prokarya in The Diversity of Living Organisms, edited by R. S. K. Barnes. (Cambridge, U.K.: Blackwell Science), 3-28.

Margulis, L., M. Chapman and D. Sagan. 1998. Kingdom Protoctista in The Diversity of Living Organisms, edited by R. S. K. Barnes (Cambridge, U.K.: Blackwell Science), 31-109.

Teal, T.H., T. Guillemette, M. Chapman and L. Margulis. 1998. Acronema sippewissettensis gen. nov. sp. nov., Microbial Mat Bicosoecid (Bicosoecales = Bicosoecida). Eur. J. Protistol. 32:402-414.

Margulis, L. and M. Chapman. 1998. Gaia and Biospheres. Columbia Earth Institute Earth Matters Spring 7-23.

Chapman, M. and L. Margulis. 1999. Morphogenesis by Symbiogenesis. Int. J. Microbiol. 1:319-326. Invited paper.

Chapman, M., D.L. Mulcahy and D.B. Stein. 1999. Identification of Plastid Genotypes in Oenothera subs. Munzia by Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLPs). Theor. and Applied Genetics 98:47-53.

Chapman, M., M. Dolan and L. Margulis. 2000. Centrioles and Kinetosomes: Form, Function and Evolution. Quart. Rev. Biol. 75: 409-429.

Chapman, M. 2004. Spendthrifts, Gluttons and Cheats: Evolutionary Traps in Individuals and Corporations. In Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective, Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss, eds. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Press.

Margulis, L., M. Chapman, R. Guerrero and J. Hall. 2006. The last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA): acquisition of cytoskeletal motility from aerotolerant spirochetes in the Proterozoic eon. Proc. Nat’l Acad. Sci. USA 103: 13080-13085.

Chapman, M. and M.C. Alliegro. 2007. A symbiotic basis for the centrosome? Symbiosis 44:23-32.

Margulis, L., M. Chapman and M. Dolan. 2007. Semes for analysis of evolution: de Duve’s peroxisomes and Meyer’s hydrogenases in the sulfurous Proterozoic eon. Nature Genet. Rev., 10:2071-2072.

Chapman, M., Y. Hou, G. Pazour, W. Dentler, S. Nakamura, G. Witman. IFT20 is required for organization of the transition zone and ciliary assembly in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. J. Cell Biol., in preparation.

Margulis, L. and M. Chapman. Kingdoms and Domains: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth. Cambridge, UK: Elsevier Academic Press. In press.

Margulis, L. and M. Chapman. Handbook of Protoctista 2nd Edition (in preparation). New York: Jones and Bartlett. In press.

Alliegro, M.C. and M. Chapman. The karyomastigont seme. In preparation.

Supported by NIH, NSF, NASA, The Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, W.M. Keck Foundation, G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation, and Ellison Medical Foundation.
Unless otherwise stated, all material © 2004 Bay Paul Center, MBL.