University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei | China

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Li Bai, professor of University of Science and Technology of China, vice dean of Institute of Health and Medicine, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center. She was graduated and obtained the doctoral degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. After that, she worked as a postdoc in University of Chicago in USA. Dr. Bai’s research interests focus on innate-like T cells.

Publications:

  1. Zhu X#, Huang JY#, Dong WY#, Tang HD#, Xu S, Wu Q, Zhang H, Cheng PK, Jin Y, Zhu MY, Zhao W, Mao Y, Wang H, Zhang Y, Wang H, Tao W*, Tian Y*, Bai L*, Zhang Z*. Somatosensory cortex and central amygdala regulate neuropathic pain-mediated peripheral immune response via vagal projections to the spleen. Nat Neurosci. 2024 Jan 30. doi: 10.1038/s41593-023-01561-8.
  2. Tian CX, Wang Y, Su MY, Huang YY, Zhang YW, Dou JX, Zhao CF, Cai YT, Pan J, Bai SY, Wu QL, Chen SW, Li SH, Xie D, Lv R, Chen YS, Wang YC, Fu SC*, Zhang HM*, Bai L*. Motility and tumor infiltration are key aspects of invariant natural killer T cell anti-tumor function. Nature Communications, 2024 Feb 9;15(1):1213.
  3. Fu S#*, Liu M#, Zhu C, Zhang H, Zhao C, Xie Y, Chen G, Sheng D, Pan J, He Z, Dai Y, Gao Y, Li X, Chen L, Qian Y, Jin T, Sun C, Tian Z, Wang H*, Bai L*. Regulatory MAIT cells controlled by β1 adrenergic receptor signaling contribute to hepatocellular carcinoma progression. Hepatology. 2023;78:72–87.
  4. Li SH, Wang LL, Xu ZH, Huang YY, Xue RF, Yue T, Xu LF, Gong FW, Bai SY, Wu QL, Liu JW, Lin BL, Zhang HM, Xue YH, Xu PY, Hou JJ, Yang XF, Jin TC, Zhou RB, Lou JZ, Xu T, Bai L*. ASC deglutathionylation is a checkpoint for NLRP3 inflammasome activation. J Exp Med. 2021 Sep 6; 218(9):e20202637.
  5. Fu S, He K, Tian C, Sun H, Zhu C, Bai S, Liu J, Wu Q, Xie D, Yue T, Shen Z, Dai Q, Yu X, Zhu S, Liu G, Zhou R, Duan S, Tian Z, Xu T, Wang H*, Bai L*. Impaired lipid biosynthesis hinders anti-tumor efficacy of intratumoral iNKT cells. Nature Communications, 2020 Jan 23; 11(1):438.