Associate Professor, Integrated Engineering
- PhD, University of California, San Diego
- MS, University of California, San Diego
- BS, University of Minnesota
Mark A. Chapman, PhD, is an associate professor of integrated engineering at the University of San Diego. He joined the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering in 2019 to define, develop and teach the biomedical engineering concentration area within the integrated engineering major. Dr. Chapman received his MS and PhD from the University of California, San Diego in bioengineering where his research focused on skeletal muscle biomechanics and disease. From 2015 - 2018, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Karolinska Institute (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden where his research examined how human skeletal muscle gene expression is altered with life-long exercise. Dr. Chapman maintains an affiliated researcher position at KI where he continues to conduct research and supervise students. His current research interests lie in bioinformatics, exercise physiology and understanding skeletal muscle disease.
In 2020, Dr. Chapman was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), entitled IRES Track I: US-Sweden Clinical Bioinformatics Research Training Program. This NSF grant from the Office of International Science and Engineering has allowed him to create a summer bioinformatics research program for U.S. students at the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Stockholm, Sweden. Specifically, this grant has funded a total of 20 students over three years from primarily undergraduate institutions in Southern California to conduct 10 weeks of bioinformatics research at SciLifeLab. This program helped Dr. Chapman strengthen his existing research collaborations in Sweden and provided an exciting international research experience for students. Read more about the program here. In 2024, Dr. Chapman was awarded another NSF grant, entitled IRES: Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for the Understanding, Prediction and Prevention of Disease (AI-UPP) which builds on the successes from his previous grant. This program will fund eight undergraduate students per year over three years from institutions in the U.S., including USD, to conduct biomedical engineering research in Stockholm, Sweden. Read more about the program here.
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Areas of Expertise
biomedical engineering, bioengineering, excercise physiology, muscle disease, biomaterials, bioinformatics, DNA sequencing
Scholarly Work
- With Emanuelsson, EB, Arif, M, Reitzner, SM, Perez, S, and Lindholm, ME, "Remodeling of the human skeletal muscle proteome found after long-term endurance training but not after strength training.," Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2024.
- With Mejia, JA and Chen, DA, "Engineering as a challenging vocation: How students align personal values to the dominant engineering discourse.," American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Montréal, Quebec, 2020.
- With Cornwall, GB, "Work in Progress: Direct incorporation of research articles into undergraduate biomedical engineering courses to contextualize complex topics.," American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Montréal, Quebec, 2020.
- With Arif M, Emanuelsson EB, Reitzner SM, Lindholm ME, Mardinoglu A, and Sundberg CJ, "Skeletal muscle transcriptomic comparison between long-term trained and untrained men and women.," Cell Reports, vol. 31, 2020.
- With Arif, M, Emanuelsson, E, Reitzner, SM, Lindholm, ME, Mardinoglu, A, and Sundberg, CJ, "Skeletal muscle transcriptomic comparison between long-term trained and untrained men and women.." Keystone Symposia Conference: New Insights into the Biology of Exercise, Keystone, CO, 2020.
- With Hoople, GD and Cornwall, GB , "Work in Progress: Development of a Biomedical Engineering Concentration Area within an Integrated Engineering Major Emphasizing Sociotechnical Thinking.," American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Tampa, FL, 2019.
- With Sundberg CJ, Exercise, Gene Regulation and Cardiometabolic Disease.. Editors: P. Kokkinos and P. Narayan, Cham, Switzerland, : Springer Nature Switzerland, 2019.
- With Arif, M, Emanuelsson, E, Reitzner, SM, Lindholm, ME, Mardinoglu, A, and Sundberg, CJ, "Genome-scale mechanisms of metabolic adaptation in long-term exercise trained humans.." Cell Symposium: Exercise Metabolism, Sitges, Spain, 2019.
- With Emanuelsson, E and Sundberg, CJ, "Genome-scale mechanisms of adaptation in long-term exercise trained humans.," Whitaker Enrichment Seminar, Budapest, Hungary, 2018.
- With Mijwel S, Cardinale DA, Norrbom J, Ivarsson N, Wengström Y, Sundberg CJ, and Rundqvist H, "Exercise training during chemotherapy preserves skeletal muscle fiber area, capillarization, and mitochondrial content in patients with breast cancer.," The FASEB Journal, vol. 32, pp. 5495-5505, 2018.