James A. Shapiro

James A. Shapiro
NationalityAmerican
Alma materChurchill College, Cambridge University, England
Known forNatural genetic engineering, first isolation of a gene, cooperative behavior in bacteria, pattern formation
AwardsMarshall Scholarship (1964-1966), Darwin Prize (University of Edinburgh) 1993, AAAS Fellow 1994, Honorary OBE 2001
Scientific career
FieldsMicrobiology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biochemistry
InstitutionsUniversity 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.

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