Check out some of our latest work featured in #eNeuro! Day length has female-specific effects on dopamine synapses in the nucleus accumbens. Congrats Alexis Jameson, PhD Dr.ErinCalipari Grueter Lab James Melchior and team! ☀️🕙🧠

🚨We are thrilled for the Dissertation Defense of Veronika Kondev, PhD !!! 🐭🧠 Please join us for the joyous occasion! Thurs March 2nd at 2pm in 512LH

OFFICIALLY PH DONE. Thank you to my amazing mentors Sachin Patel and Grueter Lab; my committee: Dr.ErinCalipari and (twitterless) Danny Winder. And all my friends and family that have been such sources of support over the last 5+ years. WE DID IT. 🥳🥳

My 1st ever first-author paper is live! 👀 at BNST PKCd cells in stress/threat/anxiety. Some highlights: they are hard to activate, activity scales w/ anxiety-like behavior, and they dont desensitize to homotypic stressors. And so much more—check it out! nature.com/articles/s4138…

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To everyone heading to RSA (RSoA) this week: I have a talk on Monday afternoon and would love ya’ll to join! The symposium focuses around exercise and alcohol use disorder. Thanks for Drs. Kolter Grisby and Angela Renee Ozburn for putting this together!

This afternoon at #RSA2023, Kristine Yoon will be presenting her work titled “Defining the cell-type specific control of alcohol drinking” at poster 40-495! Go check it out!

Join us for our next Lab-to-Table on "Beyond Addiction: Therapeutic Developments and Societal Impact"! This is a free virtual event, and the link to register is below. Dr.ErinCalipari William Stoops Lindsley Lab @ VU Jan Hoffman 🗓️Jan. 24 ⏲️11:30 am CDT vanderbilt.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

PAPER ALERT Thread! "Dorsal Hippocampus to Nucleus Accumbens Projections to Drive Reinforcement Via Activation Of Accumbal Dynorphin Neurons" Excited to see my work with Niko Massaly in Jose Moron-Concepcion Lab published in Nature Communications! rdcu.be/dxcni

I always love talking with Dr.ErinCalipari but this conversation was made even better by having Jan Hoffman, Kristine Yoon and Lindsley Lab @ VU with us! We probably could do 2 or 3 more and still not cover everything. Check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=kUFxgv…

Our conversation about substance use disorder research and approaches for drug development is posted! The conversation was hosted by Kristine Yoon with William Stoops Jan Hoffman Lindsley Lab @ VU and Dr.ErinCalipari Check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=kUFxgv…

Great paper from Dr Tamara Markovic, Ph.D. in Jose Moron-Concepcion team assessing LC->dHPC in opioid reinstatement. Happy to have participated slightly in this nice work Kudos to friends and co-authors Jessica Higginbotham Kristine Yoon Jiwon Yi, PhD (!) Jordan McCall and all twitterless folks

It was a big day in the Calipari Lab celebrating Kim's successful defense! The incredible quality of work she has done during graduate school was on display and she passed with flying colors.

It's official! Check out the incredible speaker line-up for the VCAR Science Day next Thursday! Don't forget to mark your calendars for April 18th and stay tuned throughout the week as we highlight each of our speakers in more detail.

Starting to plan your RSA schedule as you travel to Minneapolis? Come see the Vanderbilt AUD Research and Education Center (vanderbilt.edu/varec) at RSoA this week. Our faculty, students, and postdocs are speaking in several sessions on Monday and Tuesday!

Come see us at the posters RSoA. Our students and postdocs are presenting every day of the meeting!

If you have any interest in a preclinical perspective on salience encoding and alcohol use disorder, be sure to come by our session at RSoA tomorrow (Tues, June 24, 9:15-10:30, Nicollet D) featuring Karina Possa Abrahao Nathan Marchant Kristine Yoon & woody hopf

Check and RT this beautiful Nature Communications paper from Erika Harding, PhD Nicole Burma, MD PhD and Charlie Kwok in Tuan Trang lab! Tamara Markovic, Ph.D. Kristine Yoon and I participated a little to this story when we were all in Jose Moron-Concepcion Lab. Congrats friends 😊 nature.com/articles/s4146…

We are excited to share Kim Thibeault's paper Biological Psychiatry. We show that repeated cocaine exposure decreases the number of cocaine-activated neurons in the nucleus accumbens. This smaller ensemble of neurons controls behavior more robustly. doi.org/10.1016/j.biop… A thread: