Professor Dr. Marina Carlson

Biography

Marina earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from California State University, Fresno in 2019. She worked in Dr. Joy Goto’s lab studying neurodegenerative diseases using human neuroglioma cell culture and Drosophila. During the Harvard Amgen Scholars Program, she conducted research in Dr. Amar Sahay’s lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, focusing on differences in hippocampal neurogenesis between young and aged mice. Currently a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Stefania Nicoli's lab at Yale, her doctoral research involved comprehensive functional analyses of high confidence autism risk genes in zebrafish. Marina served as the graduate coordinator for the Yale STARS program, supporting undergraduates’ independent research projects, and was Secretary of the Yale SACNAS chapter, organizing professional development events. Marina is pursuing a career in science writing while contributing to her research efforts and scientific community.

Research Interests