Lucy Shapiro
Lucille "Lucy" Shapiro (born July 16, 1940 in New York City ) is an American developmental biologist and professor at Stanford University in Stanford , California .
Life
Shapiro earned a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. in 1966. in molecular biology from Albert Einstein College of Medicine , both in New York City , New York . In 1967 she became a member of the faculty at Albert Einstein College , where she was appointed professor of molecular biology in 1977. In 1986 she was appointed to Columbia University , also in New York City, and in 1989 to Stanford University in Stanford , California , where she is now (as of 2019) Professor of Developmental Biology.
Act
Shapiro is considered a pioneer in the cell biology of prokaryotes . She dealt with questions of the cell cycle and was able to contribute to the elucidation of how cells regulate the structure of their substructures spatially and temporally ( cell polarity ) and how cells succeed in generating differently differentiated daughter cells. She was able to show that bacterial cells function as integrated systems of transcription regulation that are linked to the three-dimensional arrangement of their functional proteins.
Awards (selection)
- 1988 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1992 membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1994 membership in the National Academy of Sciences
- 2003 membership in the American Philosophical Society
- 2005 Selman A. Waksman Award for Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Keith R. Porter Lecture
- 2009 Canada Gairdner International Award
- 2011 National Medal of Science
- 2012 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
- 2014 Pearl Master Greengard Prize
literature
- Who's Who in America. 66th Edition, Volume 2: M – Z. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights 2011, ISBN 978-0-8379-7032-5 (Volume 2), ISBN 978-0-8379-7035-6 (complete work), ISSN 0083-9396 , p. 4055
Web links
- Lucy Shapiro, profile and curriculum vitae (PDF, 278 kB) at Stanford University (stanford.edu); accessed on February 5, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ aaas.org ( Memento from January 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed April 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Dr. Lucy Shapiro at the American Philosophical Society (amphilsoc.org); Retrieved September 24, 2012
- ↑ nasonline.org, accessed on January 14, 2016
- ↑ Lucy Shapiro, PhD. at the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org); Retrieved September 24, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shapiro, Lucy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shapiro, Lucille |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American developmental biologist and professor at Stanford University |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |