The Calipari Lab

We are excited to share Kim Thibeault's paper @BiologicalPsyc1. 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:

Join us tomorrow Wednesday 1/7 at 1:30pm in PRB 206 for Stephanie Cajigas Gabriel's Dissertation Defense! She will present "The role of accumbal dopamine in shaping adaptive and maladaptive aversive learning strategies" completed in the @TheCalipariLab through @VanderbiltBrain!

Thrilled our panel was accepted for #ACNP2026 @ACNPorg 🎉 Excited to join the whole group @bic_ismms & @_AnnaKonova_ & @TheErinCalipari & Dr. Nicola Grissom for what’s sure to be a fantastic panel! @MountSinaiPsych

@VanderbiltU Giving Day is coming up this Thursday. You can make a huge impact on addiction through giving to @VCARScience. If we get 100 donors this week, a $30,000 gift will be unlocked! Learn more here: vu.edu/vcar

🎉 Congratulations to @TheErinCalipari of @VCARScience and Steven Townsend @Townsend_Lab for receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers! 🏆 Read on about their incredible basic science-related research 👉 news.vanderbilt.edu/2025/01/23/fac…

Cannot believe I’m on this list (thanks @TheCalipariLab for the heads up😂)! What an honor, thank you @WhiteHouse! whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

🎉 Congrats to @TheErinCalipari, director of @VCARScience for winning the 2024 @SfNtweets 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…

Over the moon to accept the presidency for @PavlovSociety! I owe a lot to this community and can’t wait to host #Pavlovian2025 in SYDNEY 🇦🇺. We already have 50% of our speakers confirmed with another 50% to be selected from abstracts as well as an ECR data blitz and posters!!

Continuing our celebration of #PeerReivewWeek, we want to highlight the top reviewers of 2023. Want to know more about some of them? Stay tuned!

It's #PeerReivewWeek, so we want to thank all of our @NPP_Journal reviewers! Do you see your name in our word cloud? Please tag yourself!

Yesterday when I was looking for something in by bag I found... a bunch of ducks? @TheCalipariLab is saying it wasn't them... so it had to be someone from the @VanderbiltBrain retreat the day before just putting ducks in unattended bags?🤣😂

#NIDA-@NIAAAnews #FrontiersinAddictionResearch Mini-Convention proudly announces the 2024 Early Career Investigator Showcase Award. 🎉 On Oct. 4, six researchers will present on their exciting contributions to addiction science! #SfN24 See details here: loom.ly/tm5IC8s

Congratulations to these @ACNPorg members for their @SfNtweets awards🎉 Erin Calipari (@TheErinCalipari): Jacob P Waletzky Award Nora Volkow: Ralph W Gerard Prize in Neuroscience Cate Pena (@Cate_cholamine): Young Investigator Award Marina Wolf: Award for Outstanding Mentoring

We are hiring! In partnership with @VanderbiltMPB, we invite applications for a senior or mid-career faculty position in areas related to substance use disorder. This is an excellent opportunity to do science in an amazing environment. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/662480/fac…

I am delighted to see @TheErinCalipari receiving this year's Waletsky Award. Congratulations, Erin. I am so happy for you!

Congrats to our very own @TheErinCalipari on the Jacob P. Waletzky Award from @SfNtweets recognizing her work on addiction! Find out more about the award here: sfn.org/initiatives/aw…

Great article with quotes from lots of leaders in the field, and plenty of @NatureNeuro papers mentioned 🙂

The neuroscience field is grappling with whether to modify the long-standing theory of reward prediction error—or abandon it entirely. By @avaskham thetransmitter.org/dopamine/recon…

This article does a fantastic job of outlining what we know about dopamine and how it controls behavior in an accessible way. thetransmitter.org/dopamine/recon…

Check out our incredible lineup of speakers for the @HBMRC_ACU @enigmabrains & @AddictionEnigma online Sex Differences in Addiction: An International Consensus Workshop! WHEN: Fri 27th Sept 13:00-16:30 PDT Register for FREE by Mon 23rd Sept: forms.gle/8P8qAvWhdWedFk… More info⬇️

🎉 Congratulations to the faculty members recently appointed and promoted within Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences! Their hard work and dedication to advancing #research and #education are inspiring. 🌟 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-sciences…