Yingxi Lin.

Yingxi Li

Professor of psychiatry and neuroscience
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Yingxi Li is professor of psychiatry and neuroscience, and chief of the Psychiatry Neuroscience Research Division at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Her research focuses on uncovering molecular and circuit mechanisms in neurodevelopment, memory formation and neuropsychiatric conditions. Employing a broad array of multidisciplinary experimental techniques, work in her lab spans analyses from the genomic and molecular level to synapse, circuit and whole-animal behavioral levels.

Originally from China, Lin studied engineering physics at Tsinghua University and received her Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University. She conducted her postdoctoral research under Michael Greenberg at Harvard Medical School. She was assistant professor from 2009 to 2015 and associate professor from 2015 to 2018 at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to her current role, she was full professor and director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at SUNY Upstate Medical University.

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