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| Zheng Li, Ph.D., Investigator |
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Dr. Zheng Li received a Ph.D. degree from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her graduate studies were carried out with Hollis Cline at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on the role of Rho GTPases in dendrite morphogenesis. She obtained postdoctoral training with Morgan Sheng at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the molecular and cellular mechanism of synapse development and plasticity. Dr. Li joined NIMH as an Investigator in 2006. Her laboratory uses molecular and cellular biology, live imaging, and electrophysiological approaches to investigate the mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity in development, cognition and psychiatric disorders, with an emphasis on schizophrenia.
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Selected Recent Publications:
Li Z, Okamoto K, Hayashi Y, and Sheng M (2004) The importance of dendritic mitochondria for the morphogenesis and plasticity of spines and synapses, Cell 119(6), 873-87.
Li Z and Sheng M (2003) Some Assembly Required: the development of neuronal synapses, Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 4(11), 833-41.
Li Z, Aizeman CD and Cline HT (2002) Regulation of Rho GTPase by crosstalk and neuronal activity in vivo, Neuron 33(5), 741-50.
Haas K, Sin WC, Javaherian A, Li Z, and Cline HT (2001) Single-cell electroporation for gene transfer in vivo, Neuron 29(3), 583-91.
All Selected Publications
Contact Information:
Dr. Zheng Li
35 Convent DR,
RM 2C1010, MSC 3732
Bethesda, MD 20892-3732
Telephone: (301) 594-2269 (office),
(301) 480-2561 (fax)
Email: lizheng2@mail.nih.gov
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