Shixin Ye-Lehmann

Dr. Ye-Lehmann graduated from the Chemistry Department of Peking University with a bachelor degree. She went to the USA in 1998 and received PhD in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. She moved to France as a research fellow at the Institute of Biology of Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) in 2010, sponsored by the Pierre-Gille de Gennes Foundation. She subsequently became a project leader in ENS and was recruited by INSERM as a tenured researcher in 2011. In 2016, through an open call competition, she was awarded to set up a Synthetic Biology Team in the Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology of the Sorbonne University. From 2016 to 2019, she moved to the INSERM U1195 unit specialized in neurosteroids and diseases, which situated inside the Bicetre Hospital. Since then she focuses on innovative optogenetics tools to study structural-function relationships of neuronal receptors, and providing therapeutic insights for anesthesia and diseases such as the Alzheimer's. She has published more than 50 papers in journals.