Curriculum vitae
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Master student · Basic & Clinical Neuroscience
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
King’s College London
Education
September 2022 – July 2026
Dual bachelor’s degrees in Biological Sciences
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University & University of Liverpool
- University of Liverpool: BSc (Hons), Upper Second Class Honours (2:1).
- Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University: Bachelor of Science.
Research experience
June 2025 – Present
Research Assistant · Prof. Liang Gong’s Lab
Department of Neurology, Sichuan University Affiliated Chengdu Second People’s Hospital
- Resting-state fMRI seed-to-voxel functional-connectivity analysis; relationships between locus-coeruleus network changes and MMSE/MoCA outcomes.
- Neuronavigation-guided rTMS targeting, ROI-mask construction and cluster extraction.
June 2025 – May 2026
Final Year Project · Prof. Alan V. Kaluev’s Lab
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
- Reserpine-induced zebrafish model and novel tank testing of locomotor and anxiety-like phenotypes.
- Whole-brain dissection, tissue homogenisation, cortisol ELISA, RNA extraction, reverse transcription and qRT-PCR.
- Brain RNA-seq analysis using DESeq2, PCA and KEGG enrichment; visualisation in R and inferential statistics in GraphPad Prism.
December 2022 – March 2023
Research Intern · Prof. Jiatang Li’s Lab
Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Contributed to morphological and genomic investigation of adaptive traits in snakes.
- Animal handling, tissue extraction, paraffin embedding, H&E staining and tissue sectioning.
Technical experience
- Neuroimaging
- Resting-state fMRI, functional connectivity, MATLAB, SPM12, WFU_PickAtlas, ROI masks and cluster extraction.
- Analysis
- Python, R, SPSS, GraphPad Prism, DESeq2, PCA and KEGG enrichment.
- Experimental methods
- Zebrafish behaviour, histology, RNA extraction, qRT-PCR, cortisol ELISA, neuronavigation-guided rTMS and eye-tracking operation.