Susannah J. Tye, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Presentation Title: Immunometabolic control of dopamine systems in health and disease: evolutionary perspectives and translational implications
Dr Susannah Tye is Associate Professor and Head of the Functional Neuromodulation and Novel Therapeutics Laboratory at the Queensland Brain Institute. She completed her Ph.D. in neuroscience at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia in 2008, followed by postdoctoral fellowship training in Neural Engineering in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic. Following this, she served as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Deakin University and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Mayo Clinic, before being recruited to join the Queensland Brain Institute and Asia Pacific Centre for Neuromodulation at The University of Queensland in 2018. Maintaining her strong international collaborations, Dr Tye continues to hold Adjunct Faculty appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry at Mayo Clinic, Emory University, and the University of Minnesota which has enabled continuation of multiple precision medicine biomarker studies. Dr Tye’s long-standing research interest is in treatment refractory mood disorders and neuromodulation, and has been recognised through multiple awards, including the Queensland Bionics Prize, The University of Queensland Foundation Research Excellence Award, and NARSAD Young Investigator Award. As a translational researcher, her work bridges bench to bedside, including animal, cell-based and clinical biomarker studies aimed at uncovering mechanisms and markers of antidepressant resistance and response. Dr. Tye’s research is funded by grants from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Institute and Australian Research Council, and through multiple industry partnerships and foundations. As a faculty member and Group Leader at the Queensland Brain Institute, she supervises a team of research trainees from diverse backgrounds, across a variety of career stages, and with distinct career trajectories bridging basic science, engineering/device development, biotechnology/drug development, medicine, and clinical psychology/psychiatry fellows). Dr Tye also teaches into the University of Queensland’s integrated 4-year mental health curriculum in the School of Medicine, and is contributing towards development of the new Masters in Neural Engineering curriculum.