Beth Shapiro
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Shapiro in 2010 | |
| Born | Beth Alison Shapiro January 14, 1976 Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| Known for | How to Clone a Mammoth |
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| Thesis | Inferring evolutionary history and processes using ancient DNA (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alan J. Cooper |
| Website | pgl |
Beth Alison Shapiro (born January 14, 1976) 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. She also teaches in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In March 2024, Shapiro began a three year sabbatical to become the chief scientific officer of Colossal Biosciences.
Shapiro's work has centered on the analysis of ancient DNA. She was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2006 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009. She was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.