Melissa Erickson, PhD, joins the TRI as a Faculty Investigator with a research focus on exercise and lifestyle interventions to mitigate metabolic disease. She will pursue investigations to discover how exercise and dietary interventions impact circadian rhythms and chronobiology to improve metabolism and reduce metabolic disease risk and burden, with an emphasis on skeletal muscle.
Dr. Erickson earned a B.S. in Biology from the University of Georgia (Athens, GA). For her graduate training, she moved to the Kinesiology Department and earned a M.S. in Exercise Physiology. Her work focused on skeletal muscle health, after spinal cord injury in humans. Subsequently, Dr. Erickson earned a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Georgia; her work focused on exercise timing, and exercise-drug interactions. Her work has been published in journals including Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight, Journal of Applied Physiology, and Exercise Science and Sports Medicine.
Prior to joining the TRI, Dr. Erickson completed postdoctoral training in metabolism and obesity at both the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH) and Pennington Biomedical Research Center (Baton Rouge, LA).
