Introduction

Dr. Ling Bai graduated from the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University. She earned her Ph.D. degree from the Neuroscience Program at Johns Hopkins University in 2017, under the mentorship of Dr. David Ginty, studying somatosensory neurons involved in touch sensation. She then pursued her postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco, where she began investigating how feeding behaviors are influenced by various internal sensory signals and cell types (e.g., vagal sensory neurons, enteroendocrine cells). In 2021, she established her own lab at the Chinese Institute for Brain Research (CIBR) in Beijing.

The primary interest of Dr. Bai’s lab is to elucidate the functions and neural mechanisms underlying the body’s internal sensation. The lab focuses on understanding how diverse visceral signals are detected by primary sensory neurons and processed in the brain to orchestrate complex physiological responses and behaviors.