1. Erin S Calipari was born on February 18,1987 and is an associate professor of pharmacology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences.
17 Facts About Erin Calipari
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Erin Calipari took part in athletics while attending White Station High School.
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Erin Calipari was part of the first generation in her family to intend to become an academic.
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Erin Calipari attended University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she studied biology and played basketball for the UMass Minutewomen.
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Erin Calipari then used the next two months to double her playing time, successfully playing one minute against Xavier in February of 2006.
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Erin Calipari was a graduate student at Wake Forest University, where she earned a doctorate in neuropharmacology under the supervision of Sara Jones.
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Erin Calipari used analytical chemistry and operant behavior studies to understand how dopamine kinetics are impacted by drug self-administration.
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Erin Calipari was a postdoctoral research associate in a genetics laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Erin Calipari focused on how to understand neural circuit activity and transcriptional programs.
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Erin Calipari joined Vanderbilt University in 2017 as part of the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research.
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In Tennessee, where Erin Calipari grew up, there are more prescriptions for opioids than there are people living in the state.
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Erin Calipari believes that drug addiction is a decision-making disease: people make decisions to choose to invest in drugs over other expenses.
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Erin Calipari looks at which parts of the brain are involved with making decisions, and how to reprogram them to make other choices.
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Erin Calipari's lab uses fibre photometry which monitors neural activity via changes in calcium and neurotransmitter activity, in subpopulations of neurons using an optical fiber.
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Erin Calipari is interested in why women are vulnerable to drug addiction, and how the immune system could be used to fight the opioid epidemic.
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Erin Calipari believes that through the platform of sport it is possible to communicate the dangers of drug addiction.
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Erin Calipari found that when hormones related to fertility are high, women make stronger associations to clues in their environment and more likely to seek rewards, which makes them more prone to drug addiction and relapse.