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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:

Baross, J.A., Benner, S.A., Cody, G.D., Copley, S.D., Pace, N.R., Scott, J.H.,  Shapiro, R., Sogin, M.L., Stein, J.L., Summons, R. and Szostak, J.D. (2007) “The Limits of  Organic Life in Planetary Systems”, National Academies Press, Washington, DC.

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

Ding, S.,  Shapiro, R., Cai, Y.,  Geacintov, N. E.and Broyde S. (2008) Conformational Properties of Equilenin-DNA Adducts: Stereoisomer and Base Effects. Chem Res. Toxicol. 21, 1064-1073.

Donny-Clark, K., Shapiro, R. and Broyde, S. (2009) Accommodation of an N-(Deoxyguanosin-8-yl)-2-acetylaminofluorene Adduct in the Active Site of Human DNA Polymerase ι: Hoogsteen or Watson-Crick Base Pairing? Biochemistry, 48, 7-18.

Shapiro, R. (2009) A new rationale for returning to the Moon? Protecting civilization with a sanctuary. Space Policy  25, 1-5.

138. Shapiro, R. and Schulze-Makuch, D.(2009) The Search for Alien Life in Our Solar System: Strategies and Priorities. Astrobiology 9, 335-343.

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