Marian Carlson

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]

• Hardie, D. Grahame; Carling, David; Carlson, Marian (1998-06-01). "THE AMP-ACTIVATED/SNF1 PROTEIN KINASE SUBFAMILY: Metabolic Sensors of the Eukaryotic Cell?". Annual Review of Biochemistry. 67 (1): 821–855. doi:10.1146/annurev.biochem.67.1.821. ISSN 0066-4154. PMID 9759505.
• Carlson, Marian; Botstein, David (1982-01-01). "Two differentially regulated mRNAs with different 5′ ends encode secreted and intracellular forms of yeast invertase". Cell. 28 (1): 145–154. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(82)90384-1. ISSN 0092-8674. PMID 7039847. S2CID 7499962.
• Carlson, Marian (1999-04-01). "Glucose repression in yeast". Current Opinion in Microbiology. 2 (2): 202–207. doi:10.1016/S1369-5274(99)80035-6. ISSN 1369-5274. PMID 10322167.

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]