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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 @painandpoppies 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:

If you’re going to #SfN24, come check out our minisymposium! The Effects of Food Consumption on the Circuitry of Reward and Decision Making featuring @drstephieb, @LexKravitz, ME Baugh, stephanie Kullmann and Miriam Bocarsly 📅Saturday Oct 5 2pm – 4:30pm 📍MCP room S100A

🎉 Congrats to Dr.ErinCalipari, director of Vanderbilt Center For Addiction Research for winning the 2024 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Jacob P. Waletzky Award! 🏅 The award recognizes early-career scientists whose research will make significant contributions to #addiction research and treatment. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-sciences…

Guess what , my poster on Nac to LH pathway in pain affect is not on your #SfN24 app , but I am still there @ Poster Board L8 (right by Yarimar Carrasquillo poster) until 5pm Also if you are looking for a post doc position on pain circuits you can also come and chat

drop the goal post location. where it at? 📍

Dr.ErinCalipari wins Waletzky and Vanderbilt shocks Alabama in football. I see great things ahead. Congrats!!!