Dr. Mei is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Dayu Lin’s lab at the neuroscience institute of NYU Langone Health. With a strong interest in how humans socially interact with each other, Dr. Mei would like to understand the neural mechanisms of social behaviors, mainly focusing on aggression and sexual behaviors. In his ongoing project, Dr. Mei aims to understand the neural mechanisms underlying negative infant-directed behaviors. Prior to coming to New York, Dr. Mei received his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Peking University and the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing. In his graduate work, Dr. Mei studies the mammalian circadian rhythm focus on how our brain responds to jet lag. He developed a long-term in vivo recording setup to monitor the circadian gene expression in mice and found a small molecular compound that can quickly adjust jet lag.
