Lezanne Ooi is a professor in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience at the University of Wollongong, Australia and group leader of the neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration lab. She was previously a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) Boosting Dementia Research Leadership Fellow. Her research speciality is cellular neuroscience and the regulation of neuronal function and neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases. The Ooi lab uses electrophysiology, imaging and a range of cell and molecular biology techniques to investigate disease mechanisms and conduct drug discovery in stem cells, tissue and disease models. She completed her PhD and postdoctoral training at the Institute of Membrane and Systems Biology, University of Leeds, UK. Her major research interests include drug discovery and mechanisms controlling neuronal function and ion channel regulation in neurological diseases, neuroinflammation and neurodevelopment, stem cell models, neural cell development, neurodegenerative diseases and neuronal excitability disorders.