Seth Shipman

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Seth Shipman (born 1983) is an American scientist. Shipman is an assistant professor at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco, where he researches synthetic biology, genetics, and neuroscience. [1]

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Education

He holds a B.A. in neuroscience from Wesleyan University, [2] and a PhD in neuroscience from UCSF. [3] After receiving his PhD, Shipman branched out from neuroscience to learn techniques from the fields of genetics and biotechnology, completing his postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School in the lab of geneticist George Church. [4]

Career

Shipman opened his lab at UCSF and the Gladstone Institutes in 2019 with a focus on building new molecular technology to help study and treat human disease. [5] Shipman is affiliated with the Bioengineering graduate program at UCSF and UC Berkeley, [6] as well as the Neuroscience [7] and Biomedical Sciences [8] graduate programs at UCSF.

Research

Shipman is best known for his work on the "molecular recorder," a system that he created along with colleague Jeff Nivala that uses CRISPR integrases inside cells to record the timing of molecular events by writing data onto DNA, which can then be read out through sequencing. In an article published in Nature, Shipman and Nivala demonstrated the fidelity of this system to record chronological events over time by encoding within a cell a GIF of one of the first movies ever created, Eadweard Muybridge's 1878 The Horse in Motion . [9] After sequencing, Shipman and Nivala were able to play the GIF of the horse back. This work was featured in The New York Times, [10] The Los Angeles Times, [11] The Guardian, [12] and The Atlantic. [13] The New York Times described this work as "perhaps [the] most astonishing example of the genome’s potential as a vast storage device." [10] The molecular recording work has also been featured as part of an art gallery installation and in a film about Muybridge.[ citation needed ]

In a pre-print published in 2021, Shipman built on the molecular recording technology work and showed that by incorporating a biological element known as a retron, the system can be used to record the timing of transcriptional events. [14] His lab also uses retrons to precisely edit bacterial, fungal, and mammalian genomes. [15]

Shipman's neuroscience work focused primarily on neuroligin, a cell adhesion protein that plays a role in synaptic formation. [16]

Most cited articles

Awards

Shipman received the NIH Director's New Innovator Award in 2020, [18] the Pew Scholars award in 2020, [19] and the SFARI Bridge to Independence Award in 2017. [20] As a postdoc, Shipman was a Shurl and Kay Curci Fellow of the Life Science Research Foundation. [21]

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References

  1. ↑ "seth.shipman@gladstone.ucsf.edu". gladstone.org.
  2. ↑ @wesleyan_u (7 October 2019). "Congratulations to Seth Shipman '05, named among this year's top 10 Scientists to Watch by @ScienceNews #SN10" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ↑ "SFARI | Seth Shipman". SFARI. December 1, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Previous Lab Members | Church Lab Members". physiogn.hms.harvard.edu.
  5. ↑ "Seth Shipman Joins Gladstone Institutes". gladstone.org.
  6. ↑ "Faculty | UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering". bioegrad.berkeley.edu.
  7. ↑ "Faculty". Neuroscience Graduate Program.
  8. ↑ "Faculty | Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program". bms.ucsf.edu.
  9. ↑ Shipman, Seth L.; Nivala, Jeff; Macklis, Jeffrey D.; Church, George M. (July 3, 2017). "CRISPR–Cas encoding of a digital movie into the genomes of a population of living bacteria". Nature. 547 (7663): 345–349. Bibcode:2017Natur.547..345S. doi:10.1038/nature23017. PMC   5842791 . PMID   28700573.
  10. 1 2 Kolata, Gina (July 12, 2017). "Who Needs Hard Drives? Scientists Store Film Clip in DNA". The New York Times.
  11. ↑ "Who needs film when you can store a movie in bacteria DNA?". Los Angeles Times. July 13, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Harvard scientists pioneer storage of video inside DNA". the Guardian. July 13, 2017.
  13. ↑ Yong, Ed (July 12, 2017). "Scientists Can Use CRISPR to Store Images and Movies in Bacteria". The Atlantic.
  14. ↑ Bhattarai-Kline, Santi; Lockshin, Elana; Schubert, Max G.; Nivala, Jeff; Church, George; Shipman, Seth L. (August 12, 2021). "Reconstructing transcriptional histories by CRISPR acquisition of retron-based genetic barcodes": 2021.08.11.455990. doi:10.1101/2021.08.11.455990. S2CID   237003124 – via bioRxiv.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. ↑ Lopez, Santiago C.; Crawford, Kate D.; Bhattarai-Kline, Santi; Shipman, Seth L. (March 26, 2021). "Improved architectures for flexible DNA production using retrons across kingdoms of life": 2021.03.26.437017. doi:10.1101/2021.03.26.437017. S2CID   232412238 – via bioRxiv.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  16. ↑ Shipman, Seth L.; Schnell, Eric; Hirai, Takaaki; Chen, Bo-Shiun; Roche, Katherine W.; Nicoll, Roger A. (June 3, 2011). "Functional dependence of neuroligin on a new non-PDZ intracellular domain". Nature Neuroscience. 14 (6): 718–726. doi:10.1038/nn.2825. PMC   3171182 . PMID   21532576.
  17. 1 2 3 4 Google Scholar Author page, Accessed Dec. 27 2021
  18. ↑ "NIH Director's New Innovator Award Program - Award Recipients". commonfund.nih.gov. September 8, 2021.
  19. ↑ "Seth Shipman Named a 2020 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences". gladstone.org.
  20. ↑ "SFARI | Bridge to Independence Award Program". SFARI. January 11, 2021.
  21. ↑ "Alumni".
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