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Jing Li is an Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Research Assistant Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Mississippi. She holds dual affiliations in the School of Pharmacy and the Department of BioMolecular Sciences. Her research focuses on computational and experimental approaches to understand ion channel function and disease mechanisms.
Dr. Li completed her Ph.D. in Biophysics & Computational Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2014). She conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. Benoit Roux at the University of Chicago, pioneering computational methods for studying voltage-gated potassium channels. As an independent investigator since 2020, her lab develops integrated frameworks combining molecular dynamics simulations, bioinformatics, and machine learning to study ion channel dysfunctions in diseases.
Research Interests:
- Structure-dynamics-function relationships in biomolecules
- Molecular mechanisms of voltage-gated sodium/calcium channels and GABAA receptors
- Computational drug design and protein coevolution analysis
Laboratory and Collaborations: The Jing Li Lab at the University of Mississippi focuses on computational biophysics, with a particular emphasis on membrane proteins. Current projects include studying disease-associated mutations in sodium channels and developing AI-driven tools for variant prediction.
