Dr. Kimberly Long is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is broadly interested in the neural and neuroendocrine regulation of social behavior. She completed her undergraduate degrees in biology and French at Indiana University and her PhD in neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied the contribution of glial cells to stress-induced anxiety. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Long combines neural recordings, molecular genetics, and detailed behavior analyses to understand the neural basis of pair bonding and the social bonds formed between family, friends, and mates. As part of her BRAIN Initiative project, she will utilize cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics and circuit manipulations to understand how the hippocampus, a region critical for social memory, contributes to social attachment in the monogamous prairie vole. This work will uncover new mechanisms underlying the neural regulation of social bonds, ultimately driving us towards mechanistic therapies for numerous psychiatric disorders that are characterized by the deterioration of social interactions.