Lucy Shapiro
| Lucy Shapiro | |
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July 16, 1940 New York City, New York |
| Residence | California, United States |
| Citizenship | U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Developmental biology; microbial genetics; bacterial cell biology |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | Brooklyn College; Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| Known for | Identification of the molecular mechanisms of cell cycle regulation and asymmetric cell division, and characterization of the systems biology of bacterial development. |
| Notable awards |
Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology (2005) Gairdner Foundation International Award (2009) National Medal of Science (2011) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2012) Pearl Meister Greengard Prize (2014) |
| Spouse | Harley McAdams |
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Website http://shapirolab.stanford.edu |
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 Lucy Shapiro - 2011 National Medal of Science
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Part 1: Dynamics of the Bacterial Chromosome, Lucy Shapiro (Stanford University) |
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Part 2: Escalating Infectious Disease Threat, Lucy Shapiro (Stanford University) |
Lucy Shapiro (born July 16, 1940, New York City) is an American developmental biologist. She is a professor of Developmental Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research and the director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine. She founded a new field in developmental biology, using microorganisms to examine fundamental questions in developmental biology. Her work has furthered understanding of the basis of stem cell function and the generation of biological diversity. Her ideas have revolutionized understanding of bacterial genetic networks and helped researchers to develop novel drugs to fight antibiotic resistance and emerging infectious diseases. In 2013, Dr. Shapiro was presented with the 2011 National Medal of Science. for "her pioneering discovery that the bacterial cell is controlled by an integrated genetic circuit functioning in time and space that serves as a systems engineering paradigm underlying cell differentiation and ultimately the generation of diversity in all organisms."
Lucy Shapiro was born in New York City and grew up in Brooklyn, where she attended primary school in New York Public School 169. She then attended New York City's High School of Music and Arts (the precursor school to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts) with a major in Fine Arts.
She went on to major in both fine arts and biology, earning her A.B. in Fine Arts and Biology from Brooklyn College in 1962. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on the Florentine poet Dante, exploring on why he chose to write in the vernacular rather than in Latin. After professor Theodore Shedlovsky at Rockefeller University convinced her to take an organic chemistry course, she became interested in both the visual aspects and the intellectual rigor of organic chemistry, and changed her course of study. She received her PhD in Molecular Biology in 1966 from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she worked with J. Thomas August and Jerard Hurwitz on the first RNA-dependent RNA polymerase.
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