Mengyu Liu

Mengyu received her bachelor's degree in Biology from Nankai University in 2018, and her Ph.D. in Neurobiology from California Institute of Technology in 2024. During her graduate work in David Anderson's lab, she probed neural control of innate social behaviors in females. Now at the Deisseroth lab, she aims to explore reward regulation in conditions like depression. Her interest lies in studying sexual dimorphism, focusing on females, and using animal models to understand psychiatric disorders in humans.