Biography:Beth Shapiro

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Short description: American evolutionary molecular biologist (born 1976)
Beth Shapiro
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Shapiro in 2010
Born
Beth Alison Shapiro

1976 (age 47–48)
Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater
Known forHow to Clone a Mammoth[1]
Awards
Rhodes Scholarship
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisInferring evolutionary history and processes using ancient DNA (2003)
Doctoral advisorAlan J. Cooper[4]
Websitepgl.soe.ucsc.edu

Beth Alison Shapiro (born 1976[5]) is an American evolutionary molecular biologist. She is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.[6] Shapiro's work has centered on the analysis of ancient DNA.[7][3] She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009[5][8] and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2006.[2]

Early life and education

Shapiro was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on January 14, 1976.[9][10] She grew up in Rome, Georgia, where she served as a local news presenter while attending Rome High School.[11]

She graduated from Rome High School with a GPA of 4.0, and entered the University of Georgia in 1994.[12] She studied Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English literature, and geology prior to choosing ecology as her major.[10] She graduated summa cum laude in 1999 with BA and MA degrees in ecology.[10][5] The same year, she was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship[11] followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford for research on inferring evolutionary history and processes using ancient DNA supervised by Alan J. Cooper.[4]

Career

Shapiro was appointed a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Oxford in 2004.[13] The same year she was appointed director of the Henry Wellcome Biomolecules Centre at Oxford, a position she held until 2007. In 2006, she was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.[2] While at the Biomolecules Centre, Shapiro carried out mitochondrial DNA analysis of the dodo.[14][15]

Shapiro's research on ecology has been published in leading journals[3] including Molecular Biology and Evolution,[16] PLOS Biology,[17] Science[14][18][19] and Nature.[20][21][22] In 2007, she was named by Smithsonian Magazine as one of 37 young American innovators under the age of 36.[23]

Publications

Her peer reviewed publications in scientific journals[3] and books include:

  • Life as We Made It: How 50,000 years of human innovation refined – and redefined – nature[24]
  • Bayesian coalescent inference of past population dynamics from molecular sequences[16]
  • Rise and fall of the Beringian steppe bison[19]
  • Ancient DNA: Methods and Protocols[25]
  • How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction[1]
  • Flight of the Dodo[14]
  • A late Pleistocene steppe bison (Bison priscus) partial carcass from Tsiigehtchic, Northwest Territories, Canada[26]

Honors and awards


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shapiro, Beth (2015). How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691157054. https://archive.org/details/howtoclonemammot0000shap. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Anon (2006). "Dr Beth Shapiro, Research Fellow". London: Royal Society. https://royalsociety.org/people/beth-shapiro-8154/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Shapiro, Beth Alison (2003). Inferring evolutionary history and processes using ancient DNA. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). Oxford: University of Oxford. OCLC 56923402.[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Anon (2011). "2009 MacArthur Fellows: Beth Shapiro". MacArthur Foundation. http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.5458039/k.8CB8/Beth_Shapiro.htm. 
  6. ↑ "Beth Shapiro, DPhil | Investigator Profile | 2018-Present" (in en). https://www.hhmi.org/scientists/beth-shapiro. 
  7. ↑ Ancient DNA -- What It Is and What It Could Be: Beth Shapiro at TEDxDeExtinction on YouTube TEDx talk
  8. ↑ Shapiro, Beth (2012). "Beth Shapiro Curriculum Vitae at Penn State University". https://homes.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/bshapiro/ShapiroCV_101018.pdf. 
  9. ↑ Beattie-Moss, Melissa. "Evolution of a Scientist: An Interview with Beth Shapiro". Research Penn State. http://www.rps.psu.edu/profiles/shapiro.html. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Contemporary Biographies in Environment & Conservation. Salem Press. 2014. pp. 117–118. ISBN 978-1-61925-539-5. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Williams, Phil; Hannon, Sharron. "The Rhodes to Oxford: Ecology student, Foundation Fellow Beth Shapiro becomes UGA's third Rhodes Scholar in four years". University of Georgia. http://www.uga.edu/columns/990111/front2.html. 
  12. ↑ Brice, Plott (21 December 1998). "Rhodes scholar from UGA awed by what awaits". The Atlanta Constitution: p. 23. 
  13. ↑ "'Beth Shapiro page on the MacArthur Foundation website.". https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2009/beth-shapiro. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Shapiro, Beth; Sibthorpe, Dean; Rambaut, Andrew; Austin, Jeremy; Wragg, Graham M.; Bininda-Emonds, Olaf R.P.; Lee, Patricia L.M.; Cooper, Alan (2002). "Flight of the Dodo". Science 295 (5560): 1683. doi:10.1126/science.295.5560.1683. PMID 11872833.  (Subscription content?)
  15. ↑ Curry, Andrew. "How to Make a Dodo: Biologist Beth Shapiro has figured out a recipe for success in the field of ancient DNA research". Smithsonian Magazine. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/innovators/shapiro.html. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Drummond, A. J.; Rambaut, A; Shapiro, B.; Pybus, O. G. (2005). "Bayesian Coalescent Inference of Past Population Dynamics from Molecular Sequences". Molecular Biology and Evolution 22 (5): 1185–1192. doi:10.1093/molbev/msi103. ISSN 0737-4038. PMID 15703244. 
  17. ↑ Penny, David; Bunce, Michael; Szulkin, Marta; Lerner, Heather R L; Barnes, Ian; Shapiro, Beth; Cooper, Alan; Holdaway, Richard N (2005). "Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into the Evolutionary History of New Zealand's Extinct Giant Eagle". PLOS Biology 3 (1): e9. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030009. ISSN 1545-7885. PMID 15660162.  open access
  18. ↑ Poinar, H. N. (2006). "Metagenomics to Paleogenomics: Large-Scale Sequencing of Mammoth DNA". Science 311 (5759): 392–394. doi:10.1126/science.1123360. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16368896. Bibcode: 2006Sci...311..392P.  (Subscription content?)
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Shapiro, B. (2004). "Rise and Fall of the Beringian Steppe Bison". Science 306 (5701): 1561–1565. doi:10.1126/science.1101074. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 15567864. Bibcode: 2004Sci...306.1561S. http://summit.sfu.ca/item/15088.  (Subscription content?)
  20. ↑ Lorenzen, Eline D.; Nogués-Bravo, David; Orlando, Ludovic; Weinstock, Jaco; Binladen, Jonas; Marske, Katharine A.; Ugan, Andrew; Borregaard, Michael K. et al. (2011). "Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans". Nature 479 (7373): 359–364. doi:10.1038/nature10574. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 22048313. Bibcode: 2011Natur.479..359L.  (Subscription content?)
  21. ↑ Orlando, Ludovic; Ginolhac, Aurélien; Zhang, Guojie; Froese, Duane; Albrechtsen, Anders; Stiller, Mathias; Schubert, Mikkel; Cappellini, Enrico et al. (2013). "Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse". Nature 499 (7456): 74–78. doi:10.1038/nature12323. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 23803765. Bibcode: 2013Natur.499...74O.  (Subscription content?)
  22. ↑ Higham, Tom; Compton, Tim; Stringer, Chris; Jacobi, Roger; Shapiro, Beth; Trinkaus, Erik; Chandler, Barry; Gröning, Flora et al. (2011). "The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe". Nature 479 (7374): 521–524. doi:10.1038/nature10484. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 22048314. Bibcode: 2011Natur.479..521H.  (Subscription content?)
  23. ↑ "37 under 36: America's Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences". http://images.smithsonianmag.com/content/innovators. 
  24. ↑ Shapiro, Beth (2023). Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined--and Redefined--Nature. Oneworld Publications. ISBN 9781541644182. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57007977. 
  25. ↑ Shapiro, Beth; Hofreiter, Michael, eds (2012). Ancient DNA: Methods and Protocols. New York: Humana Press. ISBN 978-1-61779-515-2. 
  26. ↑ Zazula, Grant D.; MacKay, Glen; Andrews, Thomas D.; Shapiro, Beth; Letts, Brandon; Broc, Fiona (2009). "A late Pleistocene steppe bison (Bison priscus) partial carcass from Tsiigehtchic, Northwest Territories, Canada". Quaternary Science Reviews 28 (25–26): 2734–2742. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.06.012. Bibcode: 2009QSRv...28.2734Z. https://homes.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/bshapiro/zazula2009.pdf. Retrieved 2011-03-19. 
  27. ↑ Stephens, Tim (19 April 2023). "Biologist Beth Shapiro elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences". University of California Santa Cruz. https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/04/shapiro-american-academy.html. 
  28. ↑ "Beth Shapiro selected as National Geographic Emerging Explorer". Penn State Live. http://live.psu.edu/story/46815. 
  29. ↑ "Beth A. Shapiro (BS '99, MS '99) receives Young Alumnus Award". Odom School of Ecology, The University of Georgia. http://www.ecology.uga.edu/alumni.php?Beth_A._Shapiro_BS_99_MS_99_receives_Young_Alumnus_Award-12/. 

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