Lucy Shapiro
Lucille "Lucy" Shapiro (* July 16, 1940 in New York City ) is an American developmental biologist and professor at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
Life
Shapiro earned a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, both in New York City, New York. In 1967 she became a member of the faculty of the Albert Einstein College and received in 1977 appointed professor of molecular biology. In 1986, she received a call to Columbia University, also in New York City, and in 1989 at Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she (2011 version) is now professor of developmental biology.
Work
Shapiro is considered a pioneer of cell biology of prokaryotes. She has dealt with questions of the cell cycle and could help to clarify how cells spatially and temporally regulate the construction of their substructures ( cell polarity ) and how it succeeds cells to generate different differentiated daughter cells. They showed that bacterial cells function as integrated systems of transcriptional regulation, which are bound to the three-dimensional arrangement of their functional proteins.