Dr. Donglin Bai received his BSc (1982) and MSc (1985) from Peking University, Beijing, China, and his Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Cambridge, U.K. He then moved to Canada and worked on neurotransmitter receptors (GABA, NMDA, AMPA, noradrenaline, angiotensin) as a postdoctoral fellow at the Loeb Research Institute (Ottawa), the Department of Physiology (Toronto), and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute (Toronto). In 2002, he was recruited as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Western Ontario. He is currently a tenured Full Professor at the same university. His current research interests are in the physiology of gap junction channels, including hemichannel docking, single-channel conductance, and gating properties. He is also interested in revealing how gap junction gene mutants are linked to human diseases (cardiac arrhythmias, hypomyelination, cataracts, deafness, and skin diseases) and in developing strategies to rescue the mutants. He received grant support from the following Canadian funding agencies: CIHR, CRC, NSERC, HSFC, NFRF, and ERA.

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