Christie Dawn Fowler received her B.S. from Baldwin-Wallace College (1998), her M.A. from Florida State University (2001), and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Florida State University (2004). After graduation, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Dr. Bruce Trapp, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation (2004–2005). Before her current role, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Staff Scientist at the Laboratory of Dr. Paul Kenny, Molecular Therapeutics, The Scripps Research Institute (2008–2014). She is now a Professor and Chancellor's Fellow in Neurobiology and Behavior at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California Irvine. She is also the Co-director of the UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience (ICAN), a Member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), and a Fellow of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM). Her research interests include Addiction, Aversion, Behavior, Brain, Extracellular Vesicles, RNA, Genetics, Nicotine, Motivation, Neuroscience, Neurobiology, and Reward.