Peng Li Lab
We study cellular and molecular control of breathing, its importance for human health and its role in disease — such as in sleep apnea and sudden infant death syndrome.
Our Research
The molecular and cellular mechanism underlying breathing, and how it goes awry in diseases is largely unknown. By molecular and genetic dissection of the breathing-control circuitry, our laboratory studies the function of neural populations that control breathing rhythms and behaviors (such as sighing), and the pathophysiology of diseases with breathing abnormality.
