Research groups
Anna Li
Postdoc
I am a postdoc working in the Yin Dong lab (NDCN) and David Sauer lab (Centre for Medicines Discovery), where I previously completed my DPhil. I am interested in the structures and functions of the muscle-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) and glutamate transporters, both are synaptic proteins implicated in neurological disorders. I am currently working on understanding the behaviour of AChR in native lipids by cryo-EM.
Previously, I completed my Bachelor of Biomedicine with Honours at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where I researched an ion channel mutation and it's role in developmental and epileptic encephalopathy.
Recent publications
Positive allosteric modulator selective for adult muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
Journal article
Webster RG. et al, (2026), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123
Protocol for stable cell line production to express muscle-type nicotinic receptor
Journal article
Li A. et al, (2026), STAR Protocols, 7, 104427 - 104427
EAAT3 modulation: A potential novel avenue towards remyelination in multiple sclerosis
Journal article
van Veggel L. et al, (2025), Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 186, 117960 - 117960
Structures of the human adult muscle-type nicotinic receptor in resting and desensitized states
Journal article
Li A. et al, (2025), Cell Reports, 44, 115581 - 115581
Structures of the human adult muscle-type nicotinic receptor in resting and desensitised states
Preprint
Li A. et al, (2024)