Background
Shapiro was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and grew up in Rome, Georgia, where she served as the local news anchor while still in high school.
Shapiro was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and grew up in Rome, Georgia, where she served as the local news anchor while still in high school.
Bachelor of Science, Master of Science in Ecology, University Georgia, Athens, 1999. Doctor of Philosophy in Biology, Oxford University, England, 2003.
She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Shapiro"s work has centered on the analysis of ancient deoxyribonucleic acid. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009. in ecology. The same year she was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.
In 2003 Shapiro received a Doctorate.Phil. in biology from Oxford University.
Shapiro became a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at Oxford in 2004. The same year she was appointed director of the Henry Wellcome Biomolecules Centre at Oxford.
A position she held until 2007. In 2006 she was awarded a University Research Fellowship by the Royal Society.
While at the Biomolecules Centre Shapiro carried out mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid analysis of the dodo.
Shapiro has written on ecology for a number of journals including Science, Molecular Biology and Evolution and PLoS Biology. In 2007, she was named by Smithsonian Magazine as one of 37 young American innovators under the age of 36. National Geographic Emerging Explorer (2010).
Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Married David Capel, June 3, 1974.