James A. Shapiro | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Churchill College, Cambridge University, England |
Known for | Natural genetic engineering, first isolation of a gene, cooperative behavior in bacteria, pattern formation |
Awards | Marshall Scholarship (1964-1966),[1] Darwin Prize (University of Edinburgh) 1993,[2] AAAS Fellow 1994,[3] Honorary OBE 2001[2] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biochemistry |
Institutions | University of Chicago; Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut Pasteur, France; Harvard Medical School; Brandeis University; Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; Visiting Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University, England |
James Alan Shapiro (born May 18, 1943) is an American biologist, an expert in bacterial genetics and a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago.[4]