Sean b carroll biography
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Carroll, Sean B. 1960-
PERSONAL:
Born September 17, 1960; married; wife's name Jamie; children: four (including two stepchildren). Education: Washington University, St. Louis, B.A.; Tufts University School of Medicine, Ph.D., 1983; post-doctoral research at University of Colorado, Boulder.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Madison, WI. Office—Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 425-G Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Geneticist, biologist, educator, researcher, and writer. University of Wisconsin—Madison, professor of molecular biology, genetics, and medical genetics, 1987—; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, investigator, beginning 1990. Previously postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
MEMBER:
National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science (fellow).
AWARDS, HONORS:
Presidential Young Investigator award, National Science Foundation; Shaw award, Milwa
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Carroll, Sean B. 1961(?)–
PERSONAL: Born c. 1961. Education:Tufts University School of medicin, Ph.D., 1983; postdoctoral research at University of Colorado, Boulder.
ADDRESSES: Office—Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 425-G Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706.
CAREER:University of Wisconsin—Madison, professor of molecular biology, genetics, and medical genetics; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy jaga, MD, investigator.
WRITINGS:
(With Jennifer K. Grenier and Scott D. Weatherbee) From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of djur Design, Blackwell Science (Malden, MA), 2001, 2nd edition, 2005.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the djur Kingdom, Norton (New York, NY), 2005.
Contributor to scientific journals.
SIDELIGHTS: Sean B. Carroll is a leader in the use of DNA evidence to deepen the understanding of evolution, which has traditionally relied on fossil and other morpholo
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Sean B. Carroll
American evolutionary developmental biologist
For the physicist, see Sean M. Carroll.
Sean B. Carroll (born September 17, 1960) is an American evolutionary developmental biologist, author, educator and executive producer. He is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland and professor emeritus of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His studies focus on the evolution of cis-regulatory elements in the regulation of gene expression in the context of biological development, using Drosophila as a model system. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, of the American Philosophical Society (2007), of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for Advancement of Science. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
Carroll has received the Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, and the