Sean B. Carroll
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| Born |
17 September 1960 Toledo, Ohio |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Evolutionary developmental biology |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Alma mater | Washington University in St. Louis (B.S.), Tufts University (Ph.D.) |
| Doctoral advisor | B. David Stollar |
| Other academic advisors | Matthew P. Scott |
| Notable awards |
Presidential Young Investigator Award Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science |
Sean B. Carroll (born September 17, 1960) is a professor of molecular biology, genetics, and medical genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He studies 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 Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Since 2010, he has been vice-president for science education of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is known by non-scientists for his book Endless Forms Most Beautiful, an account of evolutionary developmental biology.
Carroll was educated at Washington University in St. Louis. He then received his Ph.D. in immunology from Tufts University.
Carroll is at the forefront of a field known as evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo"). He is a professor of genetics, medical genetics, and molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additionally, he writes a monthly column for the New York Times called "Remarkable Creatures". He is a strong advocate of the primacy of cis-regulatory evolution in the context of morphological evolution. In 2010, he was named vice-president for science education of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2012, he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science from the Franklin Institute. In 2016, he was awarded the Thomas Lewis Prize at the Rockefeller University.
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