Dr. Leyuan Li is a Principal Investigator at the National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing), also known as the Phoenix Center, where she leads the Proteome-level Microbial Systems Ecology (ProMiSE) Lab. From 2016 to 2022, she trained in Dr. Daniel Figeys’s laboratory at the University of Ottawa as a postdoctoral fellow and research associate, developing in vitro microbiome culture systems and automated metaproteomic approaches for rapid assessment of personalized microbiome responses to drugs. In 2022, she established the ProMiSE Lab to investigate microbial community function and host–microbiome interactions at the proteome level. Her research integrates metaproteomics, functional microbiome profiling, and advanced experimental systems to understand the ecology and functional dynamics of human-associated microbial communities, with the long-term goal of enabling mechanism-guided and personalized microbiome interventions.
