Hello! Im Mark Chapman. I did not shoot John Lennon when I was two years old, that was a different Mark Chapman!
I was born in Bedford, England in 1978. My home town was the comically named Biggleswade, a hugely exciting (!) place close to London and Cambridge.
I graduated from the University of Leicester in 2000 with a BSc in Biology and swiftly moved to Scotland for my PhD at St. Andrews University. My supervisor was Prof. Richard Abbott and I investigated some case studies of hybridization and speciation in the genus Senecio (Asteraceae).
In 2004 I crossed to 'the other side' (of the Northern Hemisphere) and began a postdoc with John Burke at Vanderbilt University, Nashville working on the domestication of sunflowers. Our lab has recently moved to the the University of Georgia and this is where you can contact me
To find out what I do/did/want to do please click on the links on the left.