Kay M Tye PhD

Mom. Neuroscientist. She/Her. BLM.

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

Glad I got to celebrate @PatelReesha and her paper being published TODAY in @NatureNeuro here @S4SNeuro 🥳🥳

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

Social isolation recruits amygdala–medial prefrontal cortex projections to escalate alcohol drinking in male mice | Nature Neuroscience https://t.co/c9LLrofRs4

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

Social isolation recruits amygdala–medial prefrontal cortex projections to escalate alcohol drinking in male mice | Nature Neuroscience https://t.co/c9LLrofRs4

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

Celebrating the Year of Brain Health @salkinstitute

How your lifestyle and social world impacts brain health

https://t.co/dWrkDUCb6B

[UF McKnight Brain Institute @UFMBI]

Congratulations to MBI researcher @DrNancyPadilla, who recently received the 2026 @UFMedicine Rising Star Researcher in Basic Science Award! Learn more about her research by watching this short video. @UFNeuroscience

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

Our new review is out today!!
Perfect timing right before the #SocialGRC

https://t.co/5FIt5uBmkD

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

At Winter Brain celebrating Reesha Patel’s recently accepted paper @NatureNeuro !! Very excited to share this work in its completed form!

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

It’s #DISCOVER time again! Applications are open until March 1, 2026 for the @salkinstitute’s 3rd annual symposium. Find a postdoc training opportunity with all disciplines of biology (neuroscience, plants, cancer, immunology, cell bio, peptides, etc.) overlooking the ocean

[Leslie Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall]

Please RT
@hhmi_science #CechFellows Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - 9 weeks mentored research in an HHMI lab, $15K stipend, deadline to apply is 2 weeks away. See you next summer!

[Doris Tsao @doristsao]

I am deeply excited to share that I will be joining @AsteraInstitute to start a new effort to understand how the brain generates consciousness and intelligence.

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

Christmas came early this year— honored to have a copy of @okaysteve new book — signed by the author himself!!

[Andrew Hires @AndrewHires]

Before, during, after, today.

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

@AndrewHires Wow

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

@KepecsLab @GordFishell 😆🥳

[Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai]

Congrats @sjo09! Your trailblazing engram discoveries are unforgettable. So happy that YOUR Era's tour is being honored by the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize. @SfNtweets

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

Thanks to everyone who braved the pouring rain last night to find each other at the Cai-Tye Collective party!! @denisejcai @tristanshuman 🥰

Proud to present @_apalle (postdoc in my lab aka DJ APL) and @McGriffNeuro (MD/PhD student in my lab aka DJ Psilocientist) who blew everyone’s minds.

And thanks to DJCJ and DJ Crykit, @AndrewHires who I have worked with for years and always deliver dopeness.

Music and vibes were amazing!
If anyone has party footage pls DM me!

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

#NewProfilePic

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

So grateful to all the amazing scientists that I have had the privilege of working with over the years, and catching up with lab alums and introducing them to current lab members

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

Just reconnecting with @bjmarlin and… lo and behold…

who can spot the two neuroscience glitterati enthusiastically photobombing?