# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/beth-shapiro
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:56:07.114Z

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name: "Beth Shapiro"
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description: "Beth Alison Shapiro is an American evolutionary molecular biologist, associate director for conservation genomics at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. She also teaches in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In March 2024, Shapiro began a three year sabbatical to become the chief scientific officer of Colossal Biosciences."
tagline: "American evolutionary molecular biologist (born 1976)"
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birthDate: "1976-01-14"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump