Beth Shapiro
Beth Alison Shapiro (born January 14, 1976[5]) is an American evolutionary molecular biologist, associate director for conservation genomics at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.[6][7] In March 2024, Shapiro became chief scientific officer of Colossal Biosciences.[7] She also taught in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[7]
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Born | Beth Alison Shapiro January 14, 1976 Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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Known for | How to Clone a Mammoth[4] |
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Thesis | Inferring evolutionary history and processes using ancient DNA (2003) |
Doctoral advisor | Alan J. Cooper[3] |
Website | pgl |
Shapiro's work has centered on the analysis of ancient DNA.[8][2] She was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2006[1] and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009.[5][9]
Early life and education edit
Shapiro was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on January 14, 1976.[10][11] She grew up in Rome, Georgia, where she served as a local news presenter while attending Rome High School.[12]
She graduated from Rome High School with a GPA of 4.0, and entered the University of Georgia in 1994.[13] She studied Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English literature, and geology prior to choosing ecology as her major.[11] She graduated summa cum laude in 1999 with BA and MA degrees in ecology.[11][5] The same year, she was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship[12] 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.[3]
Career edit
In 2004, Shapiro was appointed a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Oxford[14] and 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.[1] While at the Biomolecules Centre, Shapiro carried out mitochondrial DNA analysis of the dodo.[15][16]
Shapiro's research on ecology has been published in journals[2] including Molecular Biology and Evolution,[17] PLOS Biology,[18] Science,[15][19][20] and Nature.[21][22][23] In 2007, she was named by Smithsonian magazine as one of 37 young American innovators under the age of 36.[24]
In 2024, Shapiro was appointed as chief science officer of Colossal Biosciences to help the company meet its de-extinction and species preservation goals.[25]
Publications edit
Her peer reviewed publications in scientific journals[2] and books include:
- Life as We Made It: How 50,000 years of human innovation refined – and redefined – nature[7][26]
- Bayesian coalescent inference of past population dynamics from molecular sequences[17]
- Rise and fall of the Beringian steppe bison[20]
- Ancient DNA: Methods and Protocols[27]
- How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction[7][4]
- Flight of the Dodo[15]
- A late Pleistocene steppe bison (Bison priscus) partial carcass from Tsiigehtchic, Northwest Territories, Canada[28]
Honors and awards edit
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2023)[29]
- National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer (2010)[30]
- University of Georgia Young Alumnus Award (2010)[31]
- MacArthur Fellowship (2009)[5]
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2006)[1]
- Rhodes Scholarship (1999)
References edit
- ^ a b c d Anon (2006). . royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2017-03-01.
- ^ a b c d Beth Shapiro publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b Shapiro, Beth Alison (2003). Inferring evolutionary history and processes using ancient DNA. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). Oxford: University of Oxford. OCLC 56923402.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Shapiro, Beth (2015). How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691157054.
- ^ a b c d Anon (2011). . macfound.org. MacArthur Foundation. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
- ^ "Beth Shapiro, DPhil | Investigator Profile | 2018-Present". www.hhmi.org. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
- ^ a b c d e "Ancient DNA expert Beth Shapiro named CSO of Colossal". UC Santa Cruz.
- ^ Ancient DNA -- What It Is and What It Could Be: Beth Shapiro at TEDxDeExtinction on YouTube TEDx talk
- ^ Shapiro, Beth (2012). (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-14.
- ^ Beattie-Moss, Melissa. . Research Penn State. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
- ^ a b c Contemporary Biographies in Environment & Conservation. Salem Press. 2014. pp. 117–118. ISBN 978-1-61925-539-5.
- ^ a b 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. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
- ^ Brice, Plott (21 December 1998). "Rhodes scholar from UGA awed by what awaits". The Atlanta Constitution. p. 23.
- ^ "'Beth Shapiro page on the MacArthur Foundation website".
- ^ a b c 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 required)
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 14 October 2009. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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. PMC 539324. PMID 15660162.
- ^ Poinar, H. N. (2006). "Metagenomics to Paleogenomics: Large-Scale Sequencing of Mammoth DNA". Science. 311 (5759): 392–394. Bibcode:2006Sci...311..392P. doi:10.1126/science.1123360. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16368896. S2CID 11238470. (subscription required)
- ^ a b Shapiro, B. (2004). "Rise and Fall of the Beringian Steppe Bison". Science. 306 (5701): 1561–1565. Bibcode:2004Sci...306.1561S. doi:10.1126/science.1101074. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 15567864. S2CID 27134675. (subscription required)
- ^ Lorenzen, Eline D.; Nogués-Bravo, David; Orlando, Ludovic; Weinstock, Jaco; Binladen, Jonas; Marske, Katharine A.; Ugan, Andrew; Borregaard, Michael K.; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Nielsen, Rasmus; Ho, Simon Y. W.; Goebel, Ted; Graf, Kelly E.; Byers, David; Stenderup, Jesper T.; Rasmussen, Morten; Campos, Paula F.; Leonard, Jennifer A.; Koepfli, Klaus-Peter; Froese, Duane; Zazula, Grant; Stafford, Thomas W.; Aaris-Sørensen, Kim; Batra, Persaram; Haywood, Alan M.; Singarayer, Joy S.; Valdes, Paul J.; Boeskorov, Gennady; Burns, James A.; Davydov, Sergey P.; Haile, James; Jenkins, Dennis L.; Kosintsev, Pavel; Kuznetsova, Tatyana; Lai, Xulong; Martin, Larry D.; McDonald, H. Gregory; Mol, Dick; Meldgaard, Morten; Munch, Kasper; Stephan, Elisabeth; Sablin, Mikhail; Sommer, Robert S.; Sipko, Taras; Scott, Eric; Suchard, Marc A.; Tikhonov, Alexei; Willerslev, Rane; Wayne, Robert K.; Cooper, Alan; Hofreiter, Michael; Sher, Andrei; Shapiro, Beth; Rahbek, Carsten; Willerslev, Eske (2011). "Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans". Nature. 479 (7373): 359–364. Bibcode:2011Natur.479..359L. doi:10.1038/nature10574. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 4070744. PMID 22048313. (subscription required)
- ^ Orlando, Ludovic; Ginolhac, Aurélien; Zhang, Guojie; Froese, Duane; Albrechtsen, Anders; Stiller, Mathias; Schubert, Mikkel; Cappellini, Enrico; Petersen, Bent; Moltke, Ida; Johnson, Philip L. F.; Fumagalli, Matteo; Vilstrup, Julia T.; Raghavan, Maanasa; Korneliussen, Thorfinn; Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo; Vogt, Josef; Szklarczyk, Damian; Kelstrup, Christian D.; Vinther, Jakob; Dolocan, Andrei; Stenderup, Jesper; Velazquez, Amhed M. V.; Cahill, James; Rasmussen, Morten; Wang, Xiaoli; Min, Jiumeng; Zazula, Grant D.; Seguin-Orlando, Andaine; Mortensen, Cecilie; Magnussen, Kim; Thompson, John F.; Weinstock, Jacobo; Gregersen, Kristian; Røed, Knut H.; Eisenmann, Véra; Rubin, Carl J.; Miller, Donald C.; Antczak, Douglas F.; Bertelsen, Mads F.; Brunak, Søren; Al-Rasheid, Khaled A. S.; Ryder, Oliver; Andersson, Leif; Mundy, John; Krogh, Anders; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Kjær, Kurt; Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas; Jensen, Lars Juhl; Olsen, Jesper V.; Hofreiter, Michael; Nielsen, Rasmus; Shapiro, Beth; Wang, Jun; Willerslev, Eske (2013). "Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse". Nature. 499 (7456): 74–78. Bibcode:2013Natur.499...74O. doi:10.1038/nature12323. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 23803765. S2CID 4318227. (subscription required)
- ^ Higham, Tom; Compton, Tim; Stringer, Chris; Jacobi, Roger; Shapiro, Beth; Trinkaus, Erik; Chandler, Barry; Gröning, Flora; Collins, Chris; Hillson, Simon; O’Higgins, Paul; FitzGerald, Charles; Fagan, Michael (2011). "The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe". Nature. 479 (7374): 521–524. Bibcode:2011Natur.479..521H. doi:10.1038/nature10484. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 22048314. S2CID 4374023. (subscription required)
- ^ . smithsonianmag.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11.
- ^ Laura Lorek (March 19, 2024). "Colossal Hires Ancient DNA Expert Beth Shapiro as Chief Science Officer". Silicon Hills News.
- ^ Shapiro, Beth (2023). Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined--and Redefined--Nature. Oneworld Publications. ISBN 9781541644182.
- ^ Shapiro, Beth; Hofreiter, Michael, eds. (2012). Ancient DNA: Methods and Protocols. New York: Humana Press. ISBN 978-1-61779-515-2.
- ^ Zazula, Grant D.; MacKay, Glen; Andrews, Thomas D.; Shapiro, Beth; Letts, Brandon; Broc, Fiona (2009). (PDF). Quaternary Science Reviews. 28 (25–26): 2734–2742. Bibcode:2009QSRv...28.2734Z. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.06.012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2011-03-19.
- ^ Stephens, Tim (19 April 2023). "Biologist Beth Shapiro elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences". University of California Santa Cruz.
- ^ . Penn State Live. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
- ^ . Odom School of Ecology, The University of Georgia. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
External links edit
- Beth Shapiro on Twitter