Sean B. Carroll

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Sean B. Carroll

Sean Brendan Carroll (born September 17, 1960 in Toledo , Ohio ) is an American molecular biologist , geneticist , developmental biologist and evolutionary biologist .

Life

Carroll received his bachelor's degree from the University of Washington and his PhD from Tufts University . His dissertation topic from 1983 was entitled Immunological Analysis of Eukaryotic RNA Polymeraes II: Structure, Function and Evolution . He is Professor of Molecular Biology, Medical Genetics, and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been researching at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1990 .

Carroll conducts research on the genes that control the structure of animals' bodies in developmental biology (using Drosophila as a model ) and how they change during evolution. The area is known as evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo). He's also authored popular science books and has a Remarkable Creatures column for the New York Times. In 2010 he became Vice President for Science Education at the HHMI. He also wrote a double biography of Jacques Monod and Albert Camus (Brave Genius).

In 2012 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal and he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . For his contributions to popular science, he received the Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers, and the Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Award from the Society for Developmental Biology. In 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Minnesota. In 2016 he received the Lewis Thomas Prize .

Fonts

  • with Jennifer Grenier, Scott Weatherbee: From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design, 2nd edition, Blackwell Scientific 2005
  • with Anthony Griffiths, Susan Wessler, John Doebley: Introduction to Genetic Analysis, 10th edition, Freeman 2011
  • Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom, Norton 2005
    • German edition: Evo-Devo - The new picture of evolution , Berlin 2008
  • The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution, Norton 2006
  • Into the Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution, Pearson, Benjamin Cummings 2008
  • Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
  • Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize, Crown 2013

Some essays:

  • N. Gompel, B. Prud'homme, PJ Wittkopp, VA Kassner: Chance caught on the wing: cis-regulatory evolution and the origin of pigment patterns in Drosophila. Nature, Volume 433, 2005, pp. 481-487.
  • Evolution at two levels: on genes and form, PLoS Biology, 3, 2005, p. 1159
  • with CT Hittinger, A. Rokas: Parallel inactivation of multiple GAL pathway genes and ecological diversification in yeasts, Proc. Nat. Acad. USA, Vol 101, 2004, pp. 14144-14149.
  • with N. Gompel: Genetic mechanisms and constraints governing the evolution of correlated traits in drosophilid flies, Nature, Volume 424, 2003, pp. 931-935.

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personal data
SURNAME Carroll, Sean B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carroll, Sean Brendan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American molecular biologist, geneticist, developmental biologist, and evolutionary biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Toledo , Ohio