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LA JOLLA\u2014Three Salk Institute faculty members have been promoted after the latest round of faculty reviews determined they are scientific leaders who have made original, innovative and notable contributions to biological research.<\/p>\n

Janelle Ayres<\/a> \u548c Tatyana Sharpee<\/a> have each been promoted to the rank of full professor and Saket Navlakha<\/a> has been promoted to associate professor. The promotions were based on recommendations by Salk faculty and nonresident fellows, and approved by President Rusty Gage and the Institute\u2019s Board of Trustees on April 12, 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cJanelle, Tanya and Saket are each tremendously innovative, original thinkers whose work\u00a0has already changed\u00a0their respective fields of study,\u201d says Salk President \u9c81\u65af\u8482\u00b7\u76d6\u5947<\/a>. \u201cWe are proud to have them as colleagues at Salk to be able to support and encourage the work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Janelle
Janelle Ayres<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Janelle Ayres<\/strong> is a molecular and systems physiologist who uses evolutionary theory and microbes to understand how all our physiological systems and our brain interact with each other to promote optimal health. Ayres,\u00a0who is a member of Salk’s NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis and holds the Helen McLoraine Developmental Chair,\u00a0studies how our physiologies are regulated by microbes. She seeks to understand how the mechanisms by which microbes promote our health represent a relatively unexplored aspect of host-microbe interactions, which provides an opportunity to discover new, dynamic biological processes in health and disease. Her work has potential translational applications for treating a wide array of diseases including infectious and inflammatory conditions, and to promote healthy aging.\u00a0She recently showed that\u00a0giving mice dietary iron supplements<\/a>\u00a0enabled them to survive a normally lethal bacterial infection and resulted in later generations of those bacteria being less virulent, thereby eliminating the risk of future infections.\u00a0She has also revealed how bacteria in the gut regulate feeding behavior<\/a> by manipulating the gut-brain axis and how gut microbes promote muscle mass<\/a> by promoting interactions between the immune and endocrine systems. In addition to being a Searle Scholar, Ayres has received a Ray Thomas Edward Foundation award, a Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists, a DARPA Young Faculty award and, most recently, she was a recipient of $3.5 million from the National Institute of Health Pioneer award,\u00a0$1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation and $1.8 million from the NOMIS Foundation for her novel research on host-microbe interactions and physiological health.<\/p>\n

\"Tatyana
Tatyana Sharpee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tatyana Sharpee<\/strong> conducts her research as part of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, where her team focuses on understanding the basic principles of how our brains work and adapt to their environment.\u00a0Through this, she hopes to find new ways for the diagnosis and treatments of neurologic and psychiatric disorders.\u00a0Sharpee recently applied new mathematical methods to show that organizing odor molecules based on how often they occur together in nature reveals a\u00a0coherent map in terms of our perception of odors<\/a>.\u00a0Additionally, the team uncovered new ways for how the\u00a0brain parses patterned visual stimuli<\/a>\u00a0such as\u00a0natural scenes, and provided the theoretical framework for understanding how different cell types work together<\/a> and divide various tasks amongst themselves. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society, as well as a McKnight, Sloan, and a Searle Scholar. She is also the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award. Last year, her group received a major international grant to study how the brain processes complex sounds such as speech and music.<\/p>\n

\"Saket
Saket Navlakha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saket Navlakha<\/strong> is a member of the Integrative Biology Laboratory and holds the Pioneer Fund Developmental Chair. He develops algorithms to understand the interactions, dynamics and evolution of large, noisy and complex biological systems. For example, he recently developed a machine learning algorithm to identify molecular signatures of aging<\/a>\u00a0in cells from human subjects, correctly predicting people’s ages to within four years median error. He also studies \u201calgorithms in nature\u201d\u2014for example, how groups of distributed cells communicate and process information to collectively solve computational problems. For example, he showed that fruit flies identify novel odors<\/a> in a similar way to how computers identify novel information. By comparing and contrasting biological and human engineered systems, he is developing new bio-inspired computing algorithms and new holistic perspectives on biological function. Navlakha is a Pew Scholar and the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award. He is also one of ten Salk investigators recently awarded $19.2 million by the American Heart Association-Allen Initiative<\/a> to study Alzheimer\u2019s and aging in the brain.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[79,101,66],"disease-research":[146,122,366,124],"class_list":["post-22496","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry","faculty-janelle-ayres","faculty-saket-navlakha","faculty-tatyana-sharpee","disease-research-aging-and-regenerative-medicine","disease-research-immune-system-biology","disease-research-infectious-disease","disease-research-neuroscience-and-neurological-disorders"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSalk promotes three leading scientists in the fields of infectious disease, neurobiology and biological networks - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/zh\/news-release\/salk-promotes-three-leading-scientists-in-the-fields-of-infectious-disease-neurobiology-and-biological-networks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"zh_CN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salk promotes three leading scientists in the fields of infectious disease, neurobiology and biological networks - 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