Marian Carlson

Education and career Carlson received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University. There, she spent a summer working in the laboratory of David Hubel after taking a neurobiology course and decided to become a biologist. She then became a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working in the laboratory of David Botstein, where she began to work on yeast genetics and gene regulation.

Carlson became a faculty member at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1981, and was promoted to a professor of genetics and development. In 2008, she took a position at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute before moving to the Simons Foundation in 2010.

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Awards and honors In 1993, Carlson was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2004, Carlson was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2009, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and received the Genetics Society of America Medal. In 2012, Carlson was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology.