BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250805T182012EDT-4535WNlEn8@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250805T222012Z DESCRIPTION:The Killam Seminar Series presents Neural Representations of So cial Homeostasis.\n\nRegistration available here.\n\nSpeaker: Kay M. Tye\, PhD\n\nProfessor\, HHMI Investigator\, and Wylie Vale Chair\, The Salk In stitute for Biological Studies\, SNL-KT\n\nAbstract: How does our brain ra pidly determine if something is good or bad? How do we know our place with in a social group? How do we know how to behave appropriately in dynamic e nvironments with ever-changing conditions?\n\nThe Tye Lab is interested in understanding how neural circuits important for driving positive and nega tive motivational valence (seeking pleasure or avoiding punishment) are an atomically\, genetically and functionally arranged. We study the neural me chanisms that underlie a wide range of behaviors ranging from learned to i nnate\, including social\, feeding\, reward-seeking and anxiety-related be haviors. We have also become interested in “social homeostasis” -- how our brains establish a preferred set-point for social contact\, and how this maintains stability within a social group. How are these circuits intercon nected with one another\, and how are competing mechanisms orchestrated on a neural population level? We employ optogenetic\, electrophysiological\, electrochemical\, pharmacological and imaging approaches to probe these c ircuits during behavior.\n\nBio: Kay M. Tye is a Professor and Wylie Vale Chair of the Systems Neuroscience Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Bio logical Sciences\, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Cali fornia\, San Diego (UCSD). Her research program is focused on understandin g the neurobiological mechanisms underlying social and emotional processes at the circuit\, cellular and synaptic levels\, particularly those releva nt to psychiatric disease.\n\nProfessor Tye was born in Ithaca\, New York on July 27\, 1981 and graduated from Ithaca High School in 1999.\n\nHer pr ofessional training began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MI T) where she graduated with a major in Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 200 3. After taking a year off to travel\, she earned her PhD at the Universit y of California\, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2008\, and trained as a postdoct oral fellow at Stanford University from 2009-2011. She then became an Assi stant Professor at MIT in 2012 and was promoted to Associate Professor wit h Tenure in 2018. She then moved her laboratory to the Salk Institute in 2 019 and became an HHMI Investigator in 2021.\n\nProfessor Tye has been rec ognized with numerous prestigious research awards including the NIH Direct or's New Innovator Award\, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scienti sts and Engineers\, the Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award\ , Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators under 35\, and the NIH Director's Pioneer Award. She has also been recognized with several awards for mentor ing at the undergraduate\, graduate and postdoctoral level. Further\, she is committed to outreach\, promoting diversity and inclusion in science.\n \n\nSupported by the generosity of the Killam Trusts \, The Neuro’s Killam Seminar series hosts outstanding guest speakers.\n DTSTART:20220517T200000Z DTEND:20220517T210000Z SUMMARY:Killam Seminar Series: Neural Representations of Social Homeostasis URL:/neuro/channels/event/killam-seminar-series-neural -representations-social-homeostasis-339279 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR