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Benjamin Shapiro

ResearcherHistory and philosophy of specific fieldsMcGill University

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Benjamin Shapiro

Researcher

History and philosophy of specific fields

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
56 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 25 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 SSHRC), most recently in 2022.

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2,710

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Research

evolution multicellularity major transitions microbiome cyanobacteria philosophy of science microfluidics experimental evolution

Latest papers

Phosphorothioate DNA modification by BREX type 4 systems in the human gut microbiome.
Nature communications · 2026
Linking Cyanobacterial Genomes to Toxin Dynamics Through Genome-Resolved Metagenomics
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026
Dibenzocyclooctyne-modified PCR primers enable direct enzyme-free click chemistry ligation for custom nanopore amplicon sequencing
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026 · senior author

All 64 publications

Latest funding

Multispecies origins of multicellularity in cyanobacteria
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$125,000
Multispecies origins of multicellularity in cyanobacteria
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$125,000
CANMOD: Canadian Network for Modelling Infectious Disease
NSERC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$2,500,000

All 3 grants and awards

64 publications.

Phosphorothioate DNA modification by BREX type 4 systems in the human gut microbiome.

Yuan Y, DeMott MS, Byrne SR, Flores K, Poyet M, Groussin M, Berdy B, Bahunde JR, Girard C, Lehtimäki J, Mabulla AZP, Mwikarago IE, Nartey YA, Nguyen LTT, Onyekwere CA, Roberts LR, Shapiro BJ, Vatanen T, Comstock LE, Alm EJ, Dedon PC

Nature communications20263 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-68412-5 PMID: 41571653

Linking Cyanobacterial Genomes to Toxin Dynamics Through Genome-Resolved Metagenomics

A. C. Pereira, Fernando Martínez-Jerónimo, David Peter Fewer, Dana F. Simon, Miriam A. Hernández-Zamora, Laura Martínez-Jerónimo, Paloma Antuna-González, Gabriel Munoz, Sébastien Sauvé, B. Jesse Shapiro, Nicolas Tromas

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)20261 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.64898/2026.02.24.707707

Dibenzocyclooctyne-modified PCR primers enable direct enzyme-free click chemistry ligation for custom nanopore amplicon sequencing

Patrick Lypaczewski, B. Jesse Shapiro

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.18.719403

Species-specific prophage induction by ciprofloxacin in human gut metagenomes

Ben Sakdinan, Anshul Sinha, Firdausi Qadri, Ashraful Islam Khan, Eric Jorge Nelson, B. Jesse Shapiro

mSystems2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00303-26 PMID: 41959308

Pre-exposure to stress reduces loss of community and genetic diversity following severe environmental disturbance.

Xu CCY, Fugère V, Barbosa da Costa N, Beisner BE, Bell G, Cristescu ME, Fussmann GF, Gonzalez A, Shapiro BJ, Barrett RDH

Current biology : CB20257 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.037 PMID: 39933522

Environmental RNA-Based Metatranscriptomics as a Novel Biomonitoring Tool: A Case Study of Glyphosate-Based Herbicide Effects on Freshwater Eukaryotic Communities.

He X, Maruki T, Morgado-Gamero WB, Barrett RDH, Fugère V, Fussmann GF, Gonzalez A, Shapiro BJ, Cristescu ME

Molecular ecology20256 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/mec.70164 PMID: 41163411

Industrialization drives convergent microbial and physiological shifts in the human metaorganism

Mathilde Poyet, Malte Christoph Rühlemann, Ana Paula Schaan, Yue Ma, Lucas Moitinho‐Silva, Eike Matthias Wacker, Hannah Jebens, Lucas Patel, Le Thanh Tu Nguyen, Alexis Zimmer, Damian Rafal Plichta, Daniel McDonald, Christine R. Stevens, Adwoa Agyei, Mary Afihene, Shadrack Osei Asibey, Yaw Asante Awuku, Aïda Sadikh Badiane, Lee S. Ching, Chris Corzett, Awa Bineta DEME, Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo, Amoako Duah, Alain Fezeu, Alain Froment, Sean M. Gibbons, Catherine Girard, Jeff Hooker, Fatimah Alibrahim, Deborah Iqaluk, et al. (66 authors)

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)20254 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.20.683358 PMID: 41280098

An experimental test of cyanotoxins as a potential driver of microbial community structure

Uzma Batool, Linda A. Lawton, B. Jesse Shapiro, Nicolas Tromas

Chemosphere20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2025.144518 PMID: 40505476

Prevalent chromosome fusion in Vibrio cholerae O1

Aline Cuénod, Denise Chac, Ashraful Islam Khan, Fahima Chowdhury, Randy W. Hyppa, Susan M. Markiewicz, Amelia Rice, Akhil Kholwadwala, Stephen B. Calderwood, Edward Thomas Ryan, Jason B. Harris, Regina C. LaRocque, Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan, Gerald R. Smith, Firdausi Qadri, Patrick Lypaczewski, Ana A. Weil, B. Jesse Shapiro

Nature Communications20253 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60699-0 PMID: 40593602

Co-occurrence is associated with horizontal gene transfer across marine bacteria independent of phylogeny

Gavin M. Douglas, Nicolas Tromas, Marinna Gaudin, Patrick Lypaczewski, Louis‐Marie Bobay, B. Jesse Shapiro, Samuel Chaffron

The ISME Journal20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wraf275 PMID: 41378915

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Benjamin Shapiro

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Phosphorothioate DNA modification by BREX type 4 systems in the human gut microbiome.

Linking Cyanobacterial Genomes to Toxin Dynamics Through Genome-Resolved Metagenomics

Dibenzocyclooctyne-modified PCR primers enable direct enzyme-free click chemistry ligation for custom nanopore amplicon sequencing

Species-specific prophage induction by ciprofloxacin in human gut metagenomes

Pre-exposure to stress reduces loss of community and genetic diversity following severe environmental disturbance.

Environmental RNA-Based Metatranscriptomics as a Novel Biomonitoring Tool: A Case Study of Glyphosate-Based Herbicide Effects on Freshwater Eukaryotic Communities.

Industrialization drives convergent microbial and physiological shifts in the human metaorganism

An experimental test of cyanotoxins as a potential driver of microbial community structure

Prevalent chromosome fusion in Vibrio cholerae O1

Co-occurrence is associated with horizontal gene transfer across marine bacteria independent of phylogeny

Multispecies origins of multicellularity in cyanobacteria

Multispecies origins of multicellularity in cyanobacteria

CANMOD: Canadian Network for Modelling Infectious Disease

Frequent collaborators

Sébastien Sauvé

Selena Sagan

Sarah Dorner

Rowan Barrett

Andrew Gonzalez

Julie Hussin

Dominic Frigon

Peter Vanrolleghem

Guillaume Bourque

Melania Cristescu

Gregor Fussmann

Vincent Fugère

Brad Pickering

Terrance Snutch

Bradley Pickering

Art Poon

Stephanie Loeb

Beatrix Beisner

Terry Snutch

Graham Bell

Arthur Poon

Trevor Charles

Catherine Girard

Jozef Nissimov

Devan Becker

Robert Delatolla

Corinne Maurice

Ciriaco Piccirillo

Roger Levesque

Dao Nguyen

Martin Smith

Natalie Knox

Gordon Chua

David Walsh

Guy Wolf

Timothée Poisot