Dr. Derrick Phillips, BSc, MS, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Phillips served as the first postdoctoral fellow in the Zanos lab.

His research focused on understanding the effects of different drugs of abuse on sleep architecture during chronic administration, as well as following protracted abstinence.

Following his postdoctoral training in the Zanos lab, he secured a faculty position at the University of Idaho, USA, as an Assistant Professor of Circadian Biology.

Selected Publications

 

• Phillips DJ., Powels C., Zanos P. Protracted abstinence from chronic opioid administration induces REM-specific sleep disturbances in mice. In Preparation.
• Smith PC, Phillips DJ, Pocivavsek A, Byrd CA, Viechweg SS, Hampton B et al. Estradiol influences adenosinergic signaling and nonrapid eye movement sleep need in adult female rats. Sleep 2022; 45(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab225.