Assistant Investigator, Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR)

Research Area: Neuroscience, Internal Sensory System, Physiology

Award Citation: The AYSF Committee recognizes Ling Bai’s significant contributions to understanding how internal sensory signals are detected, processed, and utilized to guide behavior. We are eager to support her research into how interoceptive signals influence cognition and its disorders, with the aim of advancing learning and cognitive function.

Bio: Ling Bai is an Assistant Investigator at the Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR). She received her B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in 2009 and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University in 2017, where she studied somatosensory neurons involved in touch sensation under the mentorship of Dr. David Ginty. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, investigating how feeding behaviors are regulated by internal sensory signals and cell types, including vagal sensory neurons and enteroendocrine cells. In 2021, she established her lab at CIBR, where her research focuses on the functions and neural mechanisms of the body’s internal sensory system. The Bai Lab aims to understand how visceral signals are detected by primary sensory neurons and processed in the brain to orchestrate physiological responses and behaviors.

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