Getting What You Want Through Mentorship, Self-Reflection, and Hobbies
Apr 11, 2017
Kay Tye’s pioneering work with projection-specific optogenetics has built a strong foundation for future insights into healthy and addiction-related behaviors. By understanding the neural circuitry that interprets pleasure and pain, she was able to alter the activity of certain connection bundles in mice and change their anxiety levels. For this work, she was awarded the Young Investigator Award in 2016. Here, in part two of her interview, she discusses mentorship and offers advice to trainees.
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Kay Tye, PhD
Kay Tye is an assistant professor at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. Her overall interest is in the synaptic, cellular, and circuit mechanisms involved in emotion and reward processing that have functional relevance to healthy and addiction-related behaviors. Beyond her scientific work, Tye is involved in outreach with the Boston Brain Bee and Science Club for Girls. In addition to receiving the Young Investigator Award in 2016, she also received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Tye earned her PhD from the University of California, San Francisco and completed her postdoctoral training at Stanford University.
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