Cinematic artwork as a singularity: interviews with Noel Carroll

Artwork as Interface

QnAs with Sean B. Carroll.

D evelopmental biologist Sean B. Carroll, a professor of molecular biology and genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studies how animal diversity is generated. Carroll, who serves on the PNAS Editorial Board, counts among today’s prominent researchers in a subspecialty of developmental biology dubbed “evo-devo.” He is the author of a...

artwork as an ideological response

august of 1941 coincided with the reza shah’s exile and opening of the cultural and political environment in iran. the tudeh party gained more power, albeit it owed its power to the presence of former soviet :union:s troops in iran during world war ii. after withdrawal of soviet troops from iran, members and supporters of the party wondered what would happen to the party and its members and sup...

From chromatin to splicing: RNA-processing as a total artwork.

RNA plays a central role in the determination of the phenotype of the cell. The molecular mechanisms involved in primary RNA synthesis and subsequent post-processing are not completely understood, but there is increasing evidence that they are more tightly coupled than previously expected. The analyses by a number of groups of recently published genome wide maps of chromatin structure have furt...

Curling Up with a Story: An Interview with Sean Carroll

To meet Sean Carroll on his home turf in the early spring of Wisconsin is like encountering a bear cuddled up in his lair, waiting out the cold winter. I burrowed into the softly lit cave of small offices, with stalactites of yellow post-its dripping from every imaginable surface. Tiptoeing over misaligned stacks of books and reprints, I had to resist the urge to pick up one of the worn works, ...