Dr. Li-Jun Kang is a professor in neuroscience of Zhejiang University.

     He graduated from the Central China Normal University in 1996. He got his PH.D. training in Huazhong University of Science and Technology during 2001-2006, then he joined Max-Plank Institute for Biophysics and Chemistry (Germany) as a postdoctoral research fellow. After that, he moved to the Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, USA, and worked there as a research fellow during 2007-2011. In September 2011, he joined the Institute of Neuroscience, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) as a PI.

     His main research interest is to understand genes and neuronal circuits underlying sensory transduction and behaviors, employing combinations of molecular genetics, opto-genetics, in vivo electrophysiology, function imaging, opto-genetics and behavioral tracking in a model organism C. elegans.

     His research supports include grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key Basic Research Developing Project of China, the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 plan), Distinguished Young Scholars of Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province and so on.

CURRENT POSITION:
        09/2011 - present    Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

EDUCATION:
        1996  Bachelor of Science in Biology, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
        2006  Ph.D. in Biophysics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

POSITIONS HELD:
         09/2006 - 04/2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max-Plank Institute of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Gottingen, Germany
         09/2007 - 08/2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA