Beth Shapiro

Beth Shapiro

Beth Shapiro is an evolutionary molecular biologist in the department of biology at the Pennsylvania State University. She was formerly a researcher in the department of zoology at Oxford University.

Shapiro is notable for a number of publications in ecology in journals including "Science", and has carried out mitochondrial DNA analysis of the dodo.

She was born in the United States and grew up in Rome, Georgia, where she served as the local news anchor while still in high school. She was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1999. [ [http://www.uga.edu/columns/990111/front2.html The Rhodes to Oxford: Ecology student, Foundation Fellow Beth Shapiro becomes UGA’s third Rhodes Scholar in four years ] ]

In 2008, she was named by Smithsonian Magazine as one of 37 young American innovators under the age of 36. [ [http://images.smithsonianmag.com/content/innovators 37 under 36: America's Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences] ]

ummary CV

;2007-present:Penn State University, Dept. of Biology, Assistant Professor;2006-2007:Royal Society University Research Fellow;2004-2007:Oxford University, Balliol College, Junior Research Fellow;2002:Oxford University, DPhil Biology "Inferring Evolutionary History and Processes Using Ancient DNA" ;1999:University of Georgia, M.S. Ecology;1999:University of Georgia, B.S. Ecology

elected publications

cite journal
last = Shapiro
first = B
coauthors = Sibthorpe D, Rambaut A, Austin J, Wragg GM, Bininda-Emonds OR, Lee PL, Cooper A
year = 2002
issue = 295
title = Flight of the Dodo
journal = Science
url = http://evolve.zoo.ox.ac.uk/papers/Shapiro%20et%20al%20(2002)%20Science.pdf
doi = 10.1126/science.295.5560.1683
volume = 295
pages = 1683
pmid = 11872833

Honors and Awards

*Smithsonian Magazine Young American Innovator in the Arts and Sciences, 2008
*Royal Society University Research Fellowship, 2006
*Rhodes Scholarship, 1999
*Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, 1998
*Morris K. Udall Scholarship for Excellence in Environmental Public Policy, 1997
*Foundation Fellowship, University of Georgia, 1994-1998
*Phi Kappa Phi Scholar, 1995

References

External links

* [http://www.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/bshapiro/ Molecular Evolution Group, Penn State University]
* [http://evolve.zoo.ox.ac.uk/ Evolutionary Biology Group, Oxford University]


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