Peijun Li
Principal Investigator Second Affiliated Hospital Wenzhou Medical University Wenzhou, China
Biography
Dr. Peijun Li received his PhD from Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University Medical Center. His research during his PhD study has been focusing on the inhibitory interneurons in mouse somatosensory cortex. During his postdoctorial work at Children’s National Medical Center at DC, he studied how hypoxia could affect the brain development using mouse model, and also how disruption in circadian gene expression could result in epilepsy in both human and mouse model. Dr. Li is now a principle investigator at Second Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, China. As a scientist with expertise in electrophysiology, his work will be directed towards understanding the functional roles of specialized GABAergic inhibitory circuits in the pathophysiological process of epilepsy and circuit formation. In his free time, Dr. Li likes running and listening to music. He have finished four half marathons and three full marathons which include the Marine Corps Marathon 2016 and the Rock and Roll DC 2016, His personal best is 3:53:25.
Abstract
Abstract : Loss of CLOCK results in dysfunction of brain circuits that underlies pediatric focal epilepsy