John Carlson (biologist)
{{Short description|American biologist and professor}}
John R. Carlson is an American biologist and professor. He currently holds the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University.{{cite web|title=John R Carlson|url=http://bbs.yale.edu/people/john_carlson-1.profile}}
He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Research
The Carlson lab studies insect chemosensation using the model organism Drosophila.{{cite web|title=Chemosensory Perception in Insects|url=http://carlson-lab.sites.yale.edu/}} Significant contributions to the field include discovery of the olfactory receptor genes in insects using the Drosophila genome, called the Odorant Receptor (Or){{Cite journal|last=Clyne|first=P. J.|last2=Warr|first2=C. G.|last3=Freeman|first3=M. R.|last4=Lessing|first4=D.|last5=Kim|first5=J.|last6=Carlson|first6=J. R.|date=February 1999|title=A novel family of divergent seven-transmembrane proteins: candidate odorant receptors in Drosophila|journal=Neuron|volume=22|issue=2|pages=327–338|issn=0896-6273|pmid=10069338|doi=10.1016/S0896-6273(00)81093-4|doi-access=free}} gene family, followed by the discovery of the insect taste receptor genes, called the Gustatory Receptor (Gr) {{Cite journal|last=Clyne|first=P. J.|last2=Warr|first2=C. G.|last3=Carlson|first3=J. R.|date=2000-03-10|title=Candidate taste receptors in Drosophila|journal=Science|volume=287|issue=5459|pages=1830–1834|issn=0036-8075|pmid=10710312|doi=10.1126/science.287.5459.1830}} gene family, a system to deorphanize insect odorant receptors referred to as the "empty neuron" system,{{Cite journal|last=Dobritsa|first=Anna A.|last2=van der Goes van Naters|first2=Wynand|last3=Warr|first3=Coral G.|last4=Steinbrecht|first4=R. Alexander|last5=Carlson|first5=John R.|date=2003-03-06|title=Integrating the molecular and cellular basis of odor coding in the Drosophila antenna|journal=Neuron|volume=37|issue=5|pages=827–841|issn=0896-6273|pmid=12628173|doi=10.1016/S0896-6273(03)00094-1|doi-access=free}} using which a study identified ligands for most of the Drosophila Olfactory Receptor (Or) repertoire{{cite journal|last=Hallem|first=Elissa|author2=Carlson, John|title=Coding of Odors by a Receptor Repertoire|journal=Cell|date=April 2006|volume=125|issue=1|pages=143–160|pmid=16615896|doi=10.1016/j.cell.2006.01.050|doi-access=free}} and a similar study that characterized the Or repertoire of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito.{{cite journal|last=Carey|first=Alison|author2=Wang G |author3=Su CY |author4=Zwiebel LJ |author5=Carlson JR. |title=Odorant reception in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae|journal=Nature|date=March 4, 2010|volume=464|issue=7285|pages=66–71|pmid=20130575|doi=10.1038/nature08834|pmc=2833235}} Carlson lab research has also been featured in Scientific American.{{cite journal|last=Carlson|first=John|author2=Alison Carey|title=Scent of a Human: The Battle against Mosquitoes|journal=Scientific American|date=July 2011|volume=305|issue=1|pages=76–79|pmid=21717963|doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0711-76}}
Biography
Carlson earned his A.B. at Harvard University in 1977 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1982.{{cite web|title=John Carlson|url=http://carlson-lab.sites.yale.edu/john-carlson}}{{cite web|title=John Carlson - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/17173-john-carlson|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507012715/http://www.gf.org/fellows/17173-john-carlson|archivedate=2012-05-07}}
Honors
Carlson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences,{{cite web|title= NAS Members and Foreign Associates Elected|url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2012_05_01_NAS_Election.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504002407/http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2012_05_01_NAS_Election.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 4, 2012|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|accessdate=May 2, 2012}} and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{cite web|title=New 2012 Academy Members by Alphabetical Index|url=http://www.amacad.org/news/alphalist2012.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=May 2, 2012|archive-date=May 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522142114/http://www.amacad.org/news/alphalist2012.pdf|url-status=dead}} Carlson was awarded the 2011 Genetics Society of America Medal.{{cite journal|last=Anholt|first=Robert|title=The 2011 Genetics Society of America Medal: John Carlson|journal=Genetics|date=April 2011|volume=187|issue=4|pages=991|doi=10.1534/genetics.111.127845|url=http://www.genetics.org/content/187/4/991.full|accessdate=May 2, 2012|pmc=3070535}} He is also a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow.
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Category:21st-century American biologists
Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences