Stanford University
Palo Alto, United States
Dr. Erin Gibson, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of medicine. Dr. Gibson received her Bachelors of Science from Duke University majoring in Psychology/Neuroscience and a minor in Biology. She received her PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley studying the role of the circadian system in homeostatic processes, including neuroendocrine, immune and neural stem cell regulation. As a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, Dr. Gibson studied the effect of neuronal activity on myelin microstructure in health and disease. The research in Dr. Gibson’s lab focuses on understanding how glial cells modulate neural circuits throughout development and in diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis, with a focus on the intersection between circadian and sleep biology and glial biology. Additionally, Dr. Gibson is a advocate for groups who have been historically excluded from the STEMM fields, including mothers, women, black, indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ, and disabled individuals. She is a committed and effective advocate for working mothers, early career researchers, and broad diversity in science and has multiple published commentaries on this topic including 3 in the last 2 years in Cell, Science, and PNAS.