Han Li is a principle investigator at the Institut Pasteur, where she leads the cellular plasticity in age-related pathologies group in the department of developmental and stem cell biology. She studied genomic stability in cancer and aging under Dr. Paul Hasty's supervision at the University of Texas, health science center at San Antonio, and obtained PhD in 2007. Next, she performed her postdoc training in Dr. Manuel Serrano's lab at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, investigating the role of tumor suppressors in cellular reprogramming. In 2015, she established her own lab at the Institut Pasteur. Han Li has worked on various topics in the field of cancer and ageing, including genomic stability, cellular reprogramming, and cell senescence. Her group recently identified a novel role of senescence in regulating cellular plasticity in the context of in vivo reprogramming. Currently, her group is focused on understanding the functional relevance of senescence-modulated cellular plasticity in tissue regeneration, cancer, and aging-related pathologies. 

Seminar topic: New tricks of an old dog: senescence induced-cellular plasticity in health & disease