Education

Ph.D, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2008

Lab information

Yueqing Peng is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology and a faculty member at the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Columbia University. His laboratory uses a multidisciplinary approach including electrophysiology, calcium imaging, optogenetics, chemogenetics, pharmacology, viral-based neural tracing, molecular biology, and mouse genetics to study the neurobiology of sleep. In collaboration with other faculty members at Columbia, his group is also interested in understanding the relationship between sleep abnormalities and neurological/psychiatric disorders.
https://www.thepenglab.org/

Research focus

The goal of our research is to understand the circuit, cellular, and molecular mechanisms underlying sleep regulation in both normal and diseased brains.

Publications