Geneticist
Marian Bille Carlson is a geneticist and the Director of Life Sciences at the Simons Foundation. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a past president of the Genetics Society of America.
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.[1] She then attended Stanford University where she received a Ph.D. working on satellite DNA in Drosophila melanogaster[2][1] under the supervision of Douglas Brutlag.[3] 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.[1][4]
Carlson became a faculty member at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1981, and was promoted to a professor of genetics and development.[5] In 2008, she took a position at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute before moving to the Simons Foundation in 2010.[5]
Carlson was elected to the Board of the Genetics Society of America in 1994 alongside Eric Lander. In 2001, she became president of the Genetics Society of America.[6]
Selected publications
Awards and honors
In 1993, Carlson was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[7] In 2004, Carlson was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[8] In 2009, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences[9] and received the Genetics Society of America Medal.[1] In 2012, Carlson was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology.[10]
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