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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

James A. Shapiro is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their body of work spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Surgery, and Cancer Research.

The main topics addressed in Shapiro's research include:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes

Frequent publication venues for Shapiro's research are:

  • Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
  • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • Cancers
  • Biosystems
  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Recent academic papers authored by Shapiro include:

  • All living cells are cognitive (2020), published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • What prevents mainstream evolutionists teaching the whole truth about how genomes evolve? (2021), published in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
  • What can evolutionary biology learn from cancer biology? (2021), published in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
  • Engines of innovation: biological origins of genome evolution (2022), published in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • How Chaotic Is Genome Chaos? (2021), published in Cancers

Shapiro has collaborated frequently with these coauthors:

  • David L. Bigam
  • Denis Noble
  • Maryam Ebadi
  • Vera C. Mazurak
  • Vickie E. Baracos

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1994.

Best Publications

  • THINKING ABOUT BACTERIAL POPULATIONS AS MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS

    James A. Shapiro

  • Mobile Genetic Elements

    James Allen Shapiro

  • DNA: Insertion Elements, Plasmids, and Episomes.

    A. I. Bukhari;James Allen Shapiro;Sankar Lal Adhya

  • BACTERIA AS MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS

    James A. Shapiro

  • Molecular model for the transposition and replication of bacteriophage Mu and other transposable elements.

    James A. Shapiro

  • Why repetitive DNA is essential to genome function.

    James A. Shapiro;Richard von Sternberg;Richard von Sternberg

  • Evolution: A View from the 21st Century

    James A. Shapiro

  • Periodic phenomena in Proteus mirabilis swarm colony development.

    Oliver Rauprich;Mitsugu Matsushita;Cornelis J. Weijer;Florian Siegert

  • Mutations caused by the insertion of genetic material into the galactose operon of Escherichia coli.

    J.A. Shapiro

  • Observations on the formation of clones containing araB-lacZ cistron fusions.

    James A. Shapiro

  • The significances of bacterial colony patterns

    James A. Shapiro

  • Isolation of pure lac operon DNA.

    Jim Shapiro;Lorne Machattie;Lorne Machattie;Larry Eron;Garret Ihler;Garret Ihler

  • Regulation of alkane oxidation in Pseudomonas putida.

    A Grund;J Shapiro;M Fennewald;P Bacha

  • Revisiting the central dogma in the 21st century.

    James A. Shapiro

  • Bacteria are small but not stupid: cognition, natural genetic engineering and socio-bacteriology.

    James A. Shapiro

  • The galactose operon of E. coli K-12. II. A deletion analysis of operon structure and polarity.

    James A. Shapiro;Sankar L. Adhya

  • Natural genetic engineering in evolution

    J. A. Shapiro

  • The galactose operon of E. coli K-12. I. Structural and pleiotropic mutations of the operon

    Sankar L. Adhya;James A. Shapiro

  • A 21st century view of evolution: genome system architecture, repetitive DNA, and natural genetic engineering

    James A. Shapiro

  • How life changes itself: the Read-Write (RW) genome.

    James A. Shapiro

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon Beckwith
Jon Beckwith Harvard University
Sankar Adhya
Sankar Adhya National Institutes of Health
Jerrold R. Turner
Jerrold R. Turner Brigham and Women's Hospital
Bruce E. Rittmann
Bruce E. Rittmann Arizona State University
Eugene B. Chang
Eugene B. Chang University of Chicago
Stanley N. Cohen
Stanley N. Cohen Stanford University
Mark W. Musch
Mark W. Musch University of Chicago
Cornelis J. Weijer
Cornelis J. Weijer University of Dundee
Florian Siegert
Florian Siegert Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ka Yee C. Lee
Ka Yee C. Lee University of Chicago

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