- Sean B. Carroll
Sean B. Carroll (born September 17th, 1960) is a
Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison . He studies the evolution of cis-regulation in the context ofbiological development , using "Drosophila " as a model system. He is Professor of Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Medical Genetics at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison .Biography
Carroll is at the forefront of a field known as
evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo"). He is also the author of "Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom" (ISBN 0-393-06016-0), one of the first popular summary narratives of the field. He is a professor of genetics, medical genetics, and molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madsion, and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is a strong advocate of the primacy of cis-regulatory evolution in the context of morphological evolution.He is also the author of "The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution" (ISBN 0-393-06163-9), in which he argues for the irrefutable existence of natural selection by detailing numerous examples of DNA which has recently been traced from current species to long extinct ones.
Education
Carroll received his bachelors at
Washington University . He then received his Ph.D. in immunology fromTufts University . ["Who's Who in America", 2008 Edition, Vol. 1 p. 728]References
External links
* [http://seanbcarroll.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/carroll_bio.html Howard Hughes Medical Institute biography for Sean B. Carroll]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_6_29/ai_n15893076/print An excerpt from "Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo"]
* [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=regulating-evolution&page=2 Scientific American article "Regulating Evolution: How Gene Switches Make Life"]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/science/26devo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times article "From a Few Genes, Life’s Myriad Shapes"]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6353991 NPR:Talk of the Nation, October 20, 2006 podcast "Author Uses DNA Record to Argue Evolution"]
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