Dr. Sean B. Carroll, an award-winning scientist, writer, educator, and film producer will deliver the next Dialogues of Discovery lecture at Janelia. Carroll’s talk, “The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters,” is on Wednesday, May 3 at 7:00 p.m. All Dialogues of Discovery lectures are free and open to the public, but tickets are required for admission.
Biologist and author of The Serengeti Rules, Carroll will share stories of the pioneering ecologists who discovered the rules that regulate the numbers and kinds of animals and plants in any given place, and how these rules are being applied to restore some of the greatest wildernesses on the planet.
Carroll is an award-winning scientist, writer, educator, and film producer. He is Vice President for Science Education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the largest private supporter of science education activities in the United States, and the Allan Wilson Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.