Sean B. Carroll

Who is this?

Sean Brendan 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 Lewis Thomas Prize at Rockefeller University. He has produced Emmy-winning films The Farthest and The Serengeti Rules, as well as the Oscar-nominated film All That Breathes.

Career

1. 1960
   Born
2. 2007
   Member of National Academy of Sciences
3. 2008
   Won A.O. Kovalevsky Medal
4. 2009
   Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
5. 2012
   Won Benjamin Franklin Medal
6. Won Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
7. Won Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
8. Won Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Toledo
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: university teacher, biologist, molecular biologist, geneticist