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Speaker
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Carol Mason, PhD
Carol Mason is professor of pathology and cell biology, neuroscience, and ophthalmology, and a member of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University. She is also co-director of the doctoral program in neurobiology and behavior, director of the vision sciences training program, and chair of interschool planning. Mason is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute of Medicine, and a past president of SfN. Mason earned her BS in biology from Chatham College and PhD in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley.