Li Lab | Duke Neurobiology
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Our goal is to understand how the brain generates v olitional movement. A planning phase precedes all volitional movements in w hich the brain programs appropriate movement on the fly to achieve the goal at hand. This fundamental process dictates our behavior\, ranging from spe ech to motor skills. We study how different brain regions and cell types or ganize into functional circuits to orchestrate neural dynamics driving voli tional movement.
Our work has isolated neural antecedents of volition al movements in the mouse brain (also known as ‘preparatory activity’ or ‘r eadiness potentials’ in humans). Our ongoing studies outline a distributed network of over a dozen brain areas that mediate planning and execution of volitional movement. To understand neural networks distributed across such a wide scale\, we are developing new approaches to map\, manipulate\, and a nalyze multi-regional circuits in the intact brain during behavior.
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series LOCATION:Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium GEO:38.635602;-90.254892 ORGANIZER;CN="Liam Savage":MAILTO:liams@wustl.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://neuroscience.wustl.edu/events/event/department-of-neu roscience-seminar-nuo-li-duke-university/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20260308T080000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR