The Li lab studies the genetic basis of complex human diseases. Currently our interests include analyses of gene expression patterns in postmortem brain tissues associated with major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, genomewide association study of bipolar disorder, integrated data analysis for the Cancer Genome Atlas Project, population genetics studies, copy number variation in population and disease samples, and application of massively parallel sequencing methods to the projects mentioned above.

Past Experience

1985- 1989

B.Sc., Department of Physics, Beijing University.  Thesis: Computation of the Characteristic Inversion Rates of Semiconductor Lasers

1991- 1998

Ph.D., Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology.  Thesis: Structure-function relationship and single-channel behavior of cyclic nucleotide-gated channels

1998- 2001

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine.

2001- 2007

Senior Scientist and project leader, Stanford Human Genome Center, Stanford University

Professional affiliation

Member: American Society of Human Genetics
Member: Society for Neuroscience
Member: International Genetic Epidemiology Society
Editorial Board: Genome Research

Contact

Jun Li, PH.D
University of Michigan
Department of Human Genetics
5789A Medical Science II, Box 5618
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5618

Phone: 734-615-5754
Fax: 734-763-3784
Email: junzli@umich.edu