Yingxi Lin

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• Investigator, McGovern Institute
  Assistant Professor, Department of Brain
  and Cognitive Sciences
• Lin lab site
• Publications

• phone: 617-324-6552
• fax: 617-452-4119
• MIT address: 46-3121A
• email: yingxi@mit.edu

Meet Yingxi Lin

The importance of inhibition
Yingxi Lin uses molecular, genetic, and electrophysiological methods to understand how inhibitory circuits form within the brain, and how they are shaped by activity and experience. Impaired inhibition has been implicated in many brain disorders, including epilepsy, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and autism. The long term goal of Lin's research is to understand the pathways by which electrical activity shapes the development and maintenance of inhibitory circuits. Having a better understanding of the brain's inhibitory circuits may shed light on the origins and possible treatments of these diseases.
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Biography
Yingxi Lin, who joined the McGovern Institute in 2008, is an assistant professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Originally from China, she received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Tsinghua University and her Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University. Prior to joining the McGovern Institute she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston.