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Xiaojuan Zhou, Ph.D.
Xiaojuan Zhou received a Ph.D. degree in neuroscience from Beijing Normal University in 2019 and then joined Li Lab at CIBR. Her current research interests mainly focus on how adaptive innate social behavior is shaped by sexual experience.
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Xianming Tao, Ph.D.
Xianming Tao is a Postdoc Fellow in Li-Lab at CIBR since 2020. To improve automatic level of behavior recognition and deeply understand the spatiotemporal characteristics of animal social behaviors, he is utilizing deep learning and computer vision techniques to quantify or recognize multi-animal social interactions. He received his Ph.D. degree from Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2020, mentored by Dr. Fan Liu, and researched on machine learning algorithms to quantify human facial phenotypes.
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Miao Wang，Ph.D.
Miao Wang received her Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019. She continued her postdoc training at Peking University in Professor Xiang Yu’s lab. In 2025, She joined Li Lab and focus on how juvenile social behaviors sculpt social cognition.
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Pingping Wang Ph.D.
Pingping Wang received her Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 2021. She is now focused on unraveling the peripheral neural circuits that influence mating behavior.
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Le Sun, Ph.D.
Le Sun is a postdoctoral researcher in Li Lab. Her research focuses on how social experiences during juvenile stages shape the wiring of neural networks that underlie social behavioral traits. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Outside the lab, she enjoys reading science fiction.
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Yixuan Li, M.S.
Yixuan Li, graduated from Xiangya School of Pharmaceutical Science, Central South University at 2017 and then gain the master degree in China Pharmaceutical University in 2020. During the graduated education, she worked in the Centre for New Drug Safety Evaluation and Research, concentrating on investigating the mechanism of neuromodulated immune activities in tumour development and developed an oncolytic virus carried immune-regulating molecules. In the autumn of 2020, she was enrolled in Peking University and working in Li Lab, CIBR as a Ph.D. candidate.
By utilizing the molecular biological techniques (e.g., single-cell RNA sequencing, CRISPR/Cas9) , she is trying to uncover the connections between the immune system and the emotional neural activity
A bookworm, An owl, A universe observer through the microscope.
An automatic singer when no calculation is required during experiments.
A young female researcher dreaming to find something more, something interesting about female’s emotion, to create something new, something beautiful in a female’s way.
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Yingchang Lu, M.S.
Yingchang Lu received his bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from Yantai University in 2016 and his master’s degree in physiology from Qingdao University in 2019. He is now pursuing Ph.D. in Li-Lab as a biochemistry and molecular biology major. He is highly interested in the role of neuromodulators in the neural mechanisms that regulate animal behavior.
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Yuanqing Zhang M.S.
Yuanqing joined Li lab at March in 2022. She completed her master degree in biomedical engineering at Zhejiang University, where she investigated the auditory perception of awake marmoset using in vivo electrophysiology. Marmosets are among only a handful of non-human primates that, like humans, routinely pair bond and care cooperatively for their young. However, it is entirely unknown how the marmoset distinguishes their partners with other individuals of opposite-sex and generate different behavioral and emotional responses. Therefore, Yuanqing is particularly interested in developing microendoscope-based calcium imaging approaches to study the neural mechanism of social recognition in freely behaving marmosets.
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Tianyue Han, B.S.
Tianyue Han is a Ph.D. candidate at Peking University and joined Li lab in the summer of 2023. She received her bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2022. She is now working on multi-region electrophysiology recording in freely moving rats and interested in correlated neural activity during social interactions.
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Wei Li, M.S.
Wei Li, PhD Candidate in Neuroscience, Peking University (Starting 2023). Research Focus: The Neural Mechanisms of Adaptive Social Behavior.Wei Li's research aims to decipher the neural circuitry and computational principles that enable adaptive social behavior. In our complex social world, the ability to flexibly adjust one's behavior—shifting from infanticidal to parental, or regulating emotional responses—is crucial for survival and well-being. Wei is passionate about understanding how the brain, as a dynamic system, supports this behavioral flexibility.
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Shuyi Wang, B.S.
Shuyi Wang is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Peking University and has been a member of the Li Lab since the beginning of 2024. She earned her bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from Beijing Normal University in 2023. Shuyi's research focuses on investigating the neural mechanisms underlying altruistic behaviors. Her current work involves the adaptive food sharing and social behaviors during pair-bond formation in marmoset pairs.
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Wei Gong, B.S
Hello everyone, I'm Gong Wei. I received my bachelor's degree from China Agricultural University and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Li lab. My research focuses on prosocial behaviors in primates, and I hope my work can contribute to understanding related psychiatric disorders.
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Xiran Hu, B.S
Xiran Hu received her bachelor's degree in Tongjj University and is now pursuing Ph.D. in Peking University. She is interested in electrophysiological recording in freely moving marmosets and neural mechanism underlying pair-bonding. Joined Li Lab in 2025.
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Wanying Zhu
Wanying Zhu graduated with a bachelor's degree from China Agricultural University in 2025. Her prior research focused on neuropeptides, interoception, and emotion. She is now interested in exploring brain activity during social interactions.
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Xinfeng Chen, Ph.D.
Xinfeng Chen is a Ph.D. candidate at Peking University, supervised by Dr.Ying Li from 2019. Using machine learning and statistic methods, he aims to quantify the behavior modules in social behaviors. He's focusing on social development from juvenile to adult in rats and how individuals naturally behave in a social group. In his free time, he loves to play badminton and collect information about artificial intelligence. 2025年8月博士毕业。
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Ang Li, Ph.D
Ang Li is the first student to graduate from our lab! She got Ph.D. degree in Peking University, supervised by Dr. Ying Li in 2024. Now she works at Shanxi Medical University. She is particularly interested in understanding the neural mechanisms of diverse social behaviors by means of patch-recording mainly.
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Zhenchao Zhong,Ph.D.
Zhenchao Zhong, from Hefei, Anhui, joined in Li lab after graduating from South China Normal University with a master’s degree in psychology. I’m concerned about the arising and maintenance mechanism of social play behavior in adolescence, and focus on in the development of social behavior of adolescent animals through pharmacological and genetic methods, expecting to discover the mystery of social development. 2025年8月博士毕业。
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Zhaoyi Ding,B.S.
Zhaoyi Ding received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Beijing Normal University in 2020, mainly focusing on the framing effect in decision making. Zhaoyi joined Li-lab at CIBR as a technician in 2021. His is currently focusing on analyzing microendoscope-based calcium imaging data and neuronal coding analysis. 2023年7月入学伯明翰大学。
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Yalan Chen, M.S.
Yalan received an M.S. in Biology at Beijing Normal University. Then she joined Cell Imaging Facility at Tsinghua University and became an imaging engineer in 2020. Yalan joined the Li lab in May 2021. She is curious about the essential roles of different neuropeptides in social behavior.
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Xin Zhao, M.S.
Zhao Xin, graduated from Jilin Agricultural University with a master's degree. Xin joined the Li lab in July 2020. She was the previous lab manager.
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Wanli Chen ,M.S.
Li Lab 技术员，2020年读博。
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Peixuan Wu ,B.S.
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Youran Yang ,B.S.
Youran Yang worked in Li lab as a intern at 2020-2021. She joined BNST group and worked with Dr.Xiaojuan Zhou.
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Jimeng Li ,B.S.
Jimeng joined the lab from July to August in 2023. During these two months, Jimeng got trained and conducted experiments in PCR, Stereotaxic intracranial injection, Behavioral experiment, Sectioning and Staining Brain Tissue. Understanding the molecular mechanism behind behaviours is one of the studies that Jimeng is interested in, which is also one of the reasons why Jimeng being attracted to neurobiology after he got his medical degree from China Medical University. Under generously funding by Prof. Fisette, Jimeng will continue his study at University of Quebec.
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Hongyun Wang ,B.S.
Hongyun joined the lab as an intern in 2019. He was interested in research on postpartum depression and worked in the lab for two years.
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Qianru Zhang ,M.S.
Qianru worked in Li lab since 2020. One year later she became a student at CIBR.
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