Dr. Lingfeng Meng obtained his doctorate in 2013 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, then joined the Duke University Medical Center as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2020, he moved to Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, where he worked as a research assistant. In 2021, Lingfeng joined the ZJU-UoE Institute as an assistant professor. He uses the tiny roundworm called Caenorhabditis elegans as a model, combined with cutting-edge fluorescent live imaging, molecular genetics, and genome editing approaches, to address questions related to neural development, particularly interested in the regulation of electrical synapses and mitochondrion DNA during neural development and aging.