Microscan Movie of Microcirculation (Needs Windows Media Player)

Publications Full list in reverse chronological order

Kim-Shapiro Lab Music video (by Ryan Vest)

I am a Biophysicist. To find out more about biophysics: Biophysical Society

Main Goal: My research focuses on understanding how blood flow is regulated, particularloy by nitric oxide, nitrite and other nitrogen oxides. I rely on various forms of spectroscopy so I use light (including polarized light) to learn about biological structure and function.

Current interest: Study the effects of Nitric Oxide and Aggregation in biological systems, especially as it relates to diseases such as Sickle Cell Disease and other cardiovascular diseases.

• Study how nitrite can be concerted to nitric oxide in normal physiology and in therapeutics
  
  
• Investigate the Blood Storage Lesion, how stored red blood cells deteriorate during storage which could lead to deleterious effects of transfusion of older stored blood.
  
  
  
  
• Here are some pictures from the group's trip to San Francisco:

  Annual meeting of the Biophysical Society 2002

• Here are some pictures from the group's trip to San Antonio:

  Annual meeting of the Biophysical Society 2003

• Here are some pictures from the group's trip to Baltimore:

  Annual meeting of the Biophysical Society 2004

• Here are some pictures from the group's trip to St. Thomas:

  Annual meeting of the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine 2004

• Here is a picture from the group's trip to the NIH in Bethesda:

  Role of Nitrite in Physiology, Pathophysiology, and Therapeutics Meeting, 2005

• Here is a picture from the "extended" group's trip to the NO meeting in Monterey:

  Fourth International Conference Biology, Chemistry and Therapeutic Applications of Nitric Oxide, 2006

• Here is a picture from the group's trip to the Free radical meeting in Orlando:

  Ninetenth International meeting of the Society for Free radical Biology and Medicine, 2012

• Here is a picture from the group's trip to the Free radical meeting in San Antonio:

  Twentyith International meeting of the Society for Free radical Biology and Medicine, 2013

• Here is a picture from the group's trip to the Society for Redox Biology and Medicine meeting in Las Vegas:

  Twenty sixth International meeting, 2019