Sean B. Carroll is an internationally recognized biologist, award-winning author, and Emmy-winning executive producer. Carroll was the architect of HHMI’s filmmaking initiative to bring great stories about scientists and science to broad audiences, and Head of Tangled Bank Studios until late 2023. The studio’s recent film, All That Breathes, was the first to win best documentary at both Sundance and Cannes and went on to earn an Academy Award nomination. Other notable films include Emmy-nominated My Garden of a Thousand Bees, which won the top award at Wildscreen, and Emmy Award-winning films The Farthest and The Serengeti Rules. Carroll has written many stories about pioneering scientists and explorers, several of which have been adapted to film. His own pioneering scientific research has centered on the genes and processes that play major roles in the evolution of animal diversity. For his scientific contributions, he has received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Sciences, and been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the European Molecular Biology Organization, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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