Xue Mi, the lab manager, received M.D. degree from school of basic medicine at QingDao University in 2020, where she sought to explore the regulation of VMH subpopulation to anxiety-like behavior. She joined the LI LAB as a technician in Jul 2020. She is involved in some projects related to the neural basis of adaptive social behavior. Xue is an expert in chemogenetics, RNA scope and site-specific cannula implantation.

Qian Yang, Lab Animal Manager, Vet. She is in charge of the management of the lab gene-editing animals. In addition, due to her interests in the secrets of brain, she is also involved in some experiments, such as the immunohistochemistry and the 3D-imaging of mouse brain.

Min An, Electrical Engineer and Technician, graduated from Beijing City University, the Department of Biotechnology. Min mainly focuses on neural circuit tracing and optogenetics. Min is an expert in Tissue clearing, 3D image reconstruction  and behavior analysis.

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.

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 mating behavior is shaped by motivation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 marmoset system setting and the design of experimental paradigms.

Interested in neuroscience

Ziyu Wang is an undergraduate student from Hebei Medical University, engaged in ion channel researches previously. He will be pursuing a Ph.D. at Capital Medical University. As a neuroscience enthusiast, he is curious about the neural mechanism differences in social behaviors between male and female.

Yun Guo is an intern student from China Agricultural University. She is interested in  neural circuits influencing mating behavior.

Ye ouyang is an undergraduate at the Beijing University of Chemistry Technology, and she has been an intern since 2022. As an intern, her interest is to quantify rats' social through machine learning and deep learning. She wants to combine computer science with neuroscience and develop Brain-inspired algorithms. In her spare time, she's fond of watching animation and reading books.

Wei Gong is an undergraduate student from China Agricultural University. She is currently exploring the mechanisms behind parental behavior and hopes to understand the neural mechanisms of emotions and social behaviors in the future.

Wanying Zhu is a student of biological sciences at China Agricultural University. She is interested in understanding how animals communicate, cooperate, and compete with each other in different environments.  She hopes to contribute to the advancement of animal behavior research and its applications.

Fan Wu, a senior at Xi'an Jiaotong University, joined the lab in September 2023 as an intern. He will complete his thesis at the Li-lab. Previously, Fan received his neuroscience training at Xi'an Jiaotong University and the University of Rochester. His research interests are in neurotransmitters and psychiatric disorders, with a greater focus on neuroscience at the circuit-level.

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.

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.

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.

   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. 

Qianru worked in Li lab since 2020. One year later she became a student at CIBR. 

Youran Yang worked in Li lab as a intern at 2020-2021. She joined BNST group and worked with Dr.Xiaojuan Zhou.