Robert Shapiro

Robert Shapiro

Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
B.S., City College of New York; Ph.D., Harvard University; Postdoctoral training, Cambridge University

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Personal Homepage: http://www.robertshapiro.org

Research Interests:

Organic and bioorganic chemistry: effects of mutagens on the structure and function of nucleic acids; origins of life

Affiliations:

American Chemical Society American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology New York Academy of Sciences American Association for the Advancement of Science International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life Author's League Phi Beta Kappa American Association of University Professors

Fellowships/Honors:

2004 Trotter Prize in Information, Complexity and Inference, National Institutes of Health Career Development Award

Selected Works:

Shapiro, R (2006) “Small Molecule Interactions Were Central to the Origin of Life” Quarterly Review of Biology, 81, 105-125.

Jia, L., Shafirovich, V., Shapiro, R, Geacintov, N. E. and Broyde, S. (2006) Flexible 5-Guanidino-4-nitroimidazole DNA Lesions: Structures and Thermodynamics. Biochemistry 45,6644-6655.

Ding, S., Shapiro, R., Geacintov, N. E. and Broyde, S. (2007) 4-Hydroxyequilenin-Adenine Lesions in DNA Duplexes: Stereochemistry, Damage Site, and Structure. Biochemistry 46, 182-191.

Shapiro, R. (2007) “A Simpler Origin for Life”, Scientific American, 296, June, 46-53.

Shapiro, R (2007). “The Origin of Life: Crucial Issues” in Baross, J.A and Sullivan, W.T, eds, “Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology” Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 132-153.

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