Xin, Li M.D., Ph.D.

 

Title and Affiliation:

Senior scientist, Theodor Kocher Institute, University of Bern

 

Biosketch:

Initially trained as a medical doctor at the medical school, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in 2004, Li Xin acquired her PhD degree in Neuroscience from the University of Western Ontario, Canada in 2012. During her PhD study she used double patch-clamp techniques to study the structure-function relationship of gap junction channels. She did her first postdoc fellowship at the Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology, and her research project was focused on sensory and motor circuits in the spinal cord. Since 2020, she has been a postdoc fellow, then a senior scientist in the Theodor Kocher Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland. Currently, her main research interests are elucidating the role of cerebrospinal fluid in neurodegenerative disease, like multiple sclerosis, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, as well as exploring novel CNS drug delivery approaches.

 

Field of Expertise: Electrophysiology (Patch-clamp), confocal-imaging, Near-infrared intravital imaging, cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics, neuroanatomy, neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative disease.