James A Shapiro

My current research deals with understanding how cells regulate the natural genetic engineering systems that produce DNA rearrangements and formulating a new conceptual basis for genome evolution consistent with molecular genetics. I also collaborate with colleagues who study multicellular pattern formation in bacterial colonies.

My current research deals with understanding how cells regulate the natural genetic engineering systems that produce DNA rearrangements and formulating a new conceptual basis for genome evolution consistent with molecular genetics. I also collaborate with colleagues who study multicellular pattern formation in bacterial colonies.

Shapiro JA 2009. Mobile DNA and evolution in the 21st Century. Mobile DNA (in press).  Mobile DNA and evolution in the 21st Century.

Shapiro JA. 2009. Letting E. coli teach me about genome engineering. Genetics 183: 1205–1214.  Letting E. coli teach me about genome engineering

Shapiro JA. 2009. Revisiting the central dogma in the 21st Century. Annal. NY Acad. Sci. 1178: 6-28.   Revisiting the central dogma in the 21st Century.

Shapiro JA. 2007. Bacteria are small but not stupid: cognition, natural genetic engineering and socio-bacteriology. Stud. Hist. Phil. Biol. & Biomed. Sci. 38 (2007) 807–819.  Bacteria are small but not stupid

Shapiro JA. 2006. Genome informatics: The role of DNA in cellular computations. Biological Theory 1(3): 288-301  Genome informatics.

Shapiro, JA. 2005 .A 21st Century View Of Evolution: Genome System Architecture, Repetitive DNA, And Natural Genetic Engineering. Gene 345: 91-100 (special issue on "Structural approaches to sequence evolution: Molecules, networks, populations").  A 21st Century View Of Evolution.

Shapiro JA and Sternberg Rv. 2005. Why repetitive DNA is essential to genome function. Biol. Revs. 80, 227-50.  Why repetitive DNA is essential to genome functio

Shapiro, J.A. 2002. Genome Organization and Reorganization in Evolution: Formatting for Computation and Function. In From Epigenesis to Epigenetics: The Genome in Context, Linda Van Speybroeck, Gertrudis Van de Vijver, and Dani De Waele (eds.), Ann. NY Acad Sci 981, 111-134.   Genome Organization and Reorganization in Evolutio

Shapiro, J.A. 1999. Genome system architecture and natural genetic engineering in evolution. In Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution, L. Caporale, ed., Annal. NY Acad. Sci. 870:23-35 

Shapiro, J.A. 1998. Thinking about bacterial populations as multicellular organisms. Ann. Rev. Microbiol 52:81-104.   Thinking about bacterial populations as multicellu

Shapiro JA 2009. Mobile DNA and evolution in the 21st Century. Mobile DNA (in press).  Mobile DNA and evolution in the 21st Century.

Shapiro JA. 2009. Letting E. coli teach me about genome engineering. Genetics 183: 1205–1214.  Letting E. coli teach me about genome engineering

Shapiro JA. 2009. Revisiting the central dogma in the 21st Century. Annal. NY Acad. Sci. 1178: 6-28.   Revisiting the central dogma in the 21st Century.

Shapiro JA. 2007. Bacteria are small but not stupid: cognition, natural genetic engineering and socio-bacteriology. Stud. Hist. Phil. Biol. & Biomed. Sci. 38 (2007) 807–819.  Bacteria are small but not stupid

Shapiro JA. 2006. Genome informatics: The role of DNA in cellular computations. Biological Theory 1(3): 288-301  Genome informatics.