Carol Ann Mason is a Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.
[7] Mason studies the role of transcriptional regulators and guidance mechanisms in the mammalian visual system.
[8] In particular, she studies the retinal ganglion cell, which connects the eye to the thalamus, which act as sensory relay stations.
[9] To understand how this happens, Mason used a camera lucida to trace out the axons at the root of retinal ganglion cells.
[10][11] Visual impairments occur due to misrouting of retinal fibres at the optical chiasm, connecting them to contralateral not ipsilateral targets.
Mason serves as an editor of the journals eLife, Current Opinion in Neurology and Neural Development.