Bio

David Carroll has been at Florida Tech for fourteen years. Prior to this, he was an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he supervised undergraduates in a lab that had a strong commitment to undergraduate and graduate research. In his current position, Dr. Carroll teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that employ mathematics as an important tool for understanding biological processes. These courses include Genetics, Developmental Biology, Cell Biology, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Carroll also runs a research lab that includes undergraduate scientists as major contributors. Dr. Carroll has published 18 peer-reviewed articles, four of which have included undergraduate authors. Undergraduates from his laboratory have presented talks or posters at multiple meetings, including the Tri-Beta Biological Honor society annual meeting, the Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research fellowship fall meeting, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology annual meeting, the American Society for Cell Biology Annual meeting, and at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society. At Florida Tech, Dr. Carroll has supervised 34 undergraduate researchers in his laboratory. A majority of these students have gone on to attend graduate school in various disciplines. Others are working as research technicians in biological laboratories, or attending medical school. Dr. Carroll is dedicated to running a successful research laboratory that incorporates undergraduates. Four of his publications are cited in the leading Developmental Biology textbook (Gilbert, S., 2013, Developmental Biology, 10th edition, Sinauer Associates) and two of those have undergraduate co-authors. The fact that their work might appear in a 'real' textbook is a great motivating factor for some undergraduates.