Academic Education:

B.A. in Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

M.A. in Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA
Ph.D. in Biology (Vertebrate Paleontology), Boston University, Boston, MA


Appointments:

Associate Professor, Northeastern University (1971-1989)

Professor, Northeastern University (1989-Present)

Research Interests:

My research work in paleontology is focused on the fossil record of snakes, amphibians, and lizards. I am involved in two faunal studies, one from the Late Eocene of the Isle of Wight, England, and the other from the Late Pleistocene of Hungary. In addition to identifying and classifying the faunal elements, I am also assessing the relative abundance of each species. In the past I studied the systematics of cryptobranchid salamanders and anguid and varanoid lizards. I have a good collection of fossil vertebrates from the Isle of Wight and a collection of recent comparative material.

Teaching Interests:

I teach five courses: Parasitology, Vertebrate Zoology, Herpetology, Paleontology, and Comparative Anatomy.

Selected Publications:

Meszoely, C.A.M., Marton, M.V., and Gasparik, M. 2005. Fossil snakes from the Late Pleistocene of Tokod (Gerecse Montains, Hungary) Frogmenta Palaentologica 23, Budabest Hungary.

Meszoely, C.A.M. and Gasparik, M. 2002. First record of an agamid lizard from the Pleistocene of Hungary. Frag. Paleo. Hung. 20, 1-2.

Meszoely, C.A.M., E.F. Erbe, W.P. Wergin and S.L. Hoffman. 1995. Plasmodium vivax: Freeze-fracture studies on the ultrastructure of the sporozoites within the salivary gland of the mosquito Anopheles stephensi. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 52 (5): 443-449.

Meszoely, C.A.M.., E.F. Erbe, L.M. Beaudoin and R.L. Beaudoin. 1989. Freeze-fracture studies on the sporzblast and sporozoite development in the early oocyst. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 41 (5): 499-503.

Meszoely, C.A.M., Z. V. Spinar and R. E. Ford. 1984. A new Eocene frog (Palaeobatrachidae) from the British Islands. J. Vert. Paleont. 3:143-147.

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