Session Type: Plenary Lecture
Number: 60-02
Title: Sean B. Carroll, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
Session Start/End Time: Friday, Feb 13, 2009, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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Room: Fairmont Imperial Ballroom
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Synopsis: Until recently, scientists studying evolution relied on fossil records and animal morphology to painstakingly piece together a picture of how animals evolved. Today, scientists are now using DNA evidence collected from modern animals to find new clues. Molecular biologist Sean Carroll focuses on the way new animal forms have evolved, and his studies of a wide variety of animal species have dramatically changed the face of evolutionary biology. Using genetics and the tools of molecular biology, he is looking back to the dawn of animal life some 600 million to 700 million years ago. Major discoveries from his laboratory have been featured in Time, US News & World Report, The New York Times, Discover, and Natural History. Dr. Carroll is author of The Making of the Fittest (2005) and Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2005). His most recent book, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species, will be published in 2009. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and is a AAAS Fellow. He received his bachelor's degree at Washington University and his Ph.D. degree in immunology from Tufts University.
 

Lecture Speaker--Sean B. Carroll
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Wisconsin