Email

nuo.li@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor

Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

McNair Scholar

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Education

BS from Washington University

St. Louis, MO, United States

PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA, United States

Postdoctoral Training at Janelia Research Campus

Ashburn, VA, United States

Honors & Awards

Searle Scholar

Pew Scholar

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship

NIH NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship

McKnight Scholar

Professional Statement

The research of our lab is aim at understanding the neural circuits involved in the planning and execution of voluntary movements. We study how specific cell types are organized into neural circuits in the mouse cortex and connected brain regions. We use this knowledge and causal manipulations of neurons to establish relationships between neural circuits, activity patterns, and behavior.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Chen G, Kang B, Lindsey J, Druckmann S, Li N. "Modularity and robustness of frontal cortical networks.." Cell. 2021;184(14):3717-3730. Pubmed PMID: 34214471
• Gao Z, Davis C, Thomas AM, Economo MN, Abrego AM, Svoboda K, De Zeeuw CI, Li N "A cortico-cerebellar loop for motor planning.." Nature. 2018;563(7729):113-116. Pubmed PMID: 30333626
• Li N*, Daie K*, Svoboda K, Druckmann S "Robust neuronal dynamics in premotor cortex during motor planning.." Nature. 2016;532(7600):459-464. Pubmed PMID: 27074502
• Li N, Chen TW, Guo ZV, Gerfen CR, Svoboda K. "A motor cortex circuit for motor planning and movement.." Nature. 2015;519(7541):51-56. Pubmed PMID: 25731172

Funding

McNair Scholars Program

McNair Medical Institute at The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation

Whitehall Foundation Grant

Whitehall Foundation

Sloan Research Fellowship

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Searle Scholars Program

Kinship Foundation