Principal Investigator
Dayu received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of neurobiology at Duke University in 2005, mentored by Dr. Lawrence C. Katz. She then continued her postdoctoral training at Caltech with Dr. David J. Anderson. In November 2010, she started her independent research group at NYU Langone medical center studying the neural mechanisms of social behaviors.
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Takashi received his Ph. D. degree from Osaka University under the supervision of Prof. Shigetada Nakanishi in 2013. After his Ph. D. and postdoctoral training in Nakanishi's lab, he jonined Lin's lab in the spring 2015. He is interested in the neural substrates of mating and fighting circuits beyond the hypothalamus.
Julieta received her Ph.D. from The George Washington University in 2017 under the mentorship of Dr. Joshua Corbin. She is interested in understanding the developmental, molecular and circuitry underpinnings of innate social behaviors such as mating, and aggression in male and female mice.
Supported by the Leon Levy Fellowship in Neuroscience and NIMH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award.
Check out Julieta's website to find out more about her academic journey, research interests and updates: www.julietalischinsky.com
Takuya received his Ph. D. in Agriculture at The University of Tokyo in 2017. During postdoctoral training under Prof. Kazushige Touhara at the Department of Applied Biological Chemistry at The University of Tokyo, he worked on the ERATO Touhara Chemosensory project. Takuya joined the Lin Lab in the Fall of 2018 and is interested in social and maternal behaviors.
Long Mei received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology through the Peking university-Tsinghua university-National institute of biological Science (PTN) joint program under the supervision of Prof. Erquan Eric Zhang in 2018. He joined the Lin lab in November 2018 and is interested in understanding the neural mechanisms of maternal behaviors and social contagious behaviors.
Luping received her Ph.D. degree from The Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai, China in 2016 where she was mentored by Dr. Yousheng Shu. After completing her degree, she continued her first-round of postdoctoral training at Duke university with Dr. Fan Wang. In August 2019, she joined Lin lab to pursue investigating the neural circuit mechanisms of maternal aggression. Her goal is to elucidate how exactly the animal perceives cues from its counterparts.
Rongzhen received her Ph.D. degree from the School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology at Peking University in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Qiang Zhou. She then continued her postdoctoral training at University of Pittsburgh with Prof. Yanhua Huang. She joined the Lin lab in January 2021. By combining a wide range of approaches, she is interested in understanding the neural mechanisms of aggressive and defensive behaviors. She aims to determine the effects of different external factors on social behaviors and the potential neural mechanisms that lead to deficits in disease models.
Graduate Students
Bing received his Bachelor’s degree from Southeast University, and he joined the lab in Spring 2018. He is interested in mouse aggression behavior and neural plasticity behind it.
Veronica graduated from Northeastern University with a B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience. She joined the lab in Summer 2018 and is interested in characterizing neural circuits underlying innate behaviors including aggression and maternal care, as well as competition between needs.
Patrick received a B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University. In collaboration with Dr. Robert Froemke, he is interested in understanding how social experiences alter the function of neural circuits – particularly in the context of parental behaviors. He plans to use a combination of in vivo recording techniques, functional manipulation approaches, and behavioral experiments to study sensory and conspecific representations in hypothalamic circuits.
Research Associates
Yiwen received a B.S. in Biotechnology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and an M.S. in Biology from NYU. They joined the lab in Summer 2019, pursuing their interest in learning neural mechanisms underlying social behaviors.
Research Associate / Lab Manager
Master's Students
Hector Asencio
Hector is a graduate student at NYU pursuing an M.S. in Biology on a pre med track. He joined the lab in december 2021 and is interested in learning about the neural mechanisms that are active in the stress response and aggression and how this information can be used to help understand the same process in humans.
Bingqin Zheng
Bingqin received a B.S. degree in Biological Sciences at Fudan University and is currently a Master's student in Neuroscience & Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She joined the lab in the spring of 2022. She is interested in understanding how social behaviors, especially aggression and social defeats, are modulated by crosstalk among different neurons.
Undergraduate Students
Mashrur Khan
Mashrur is an undergraduate at NYU pursuing a B.A. in Sociology on the premed track. He joined the lab as a research volunteer in February 2021. He is curious about the intersections between sociology and neuroscience, and is interested in learning more about the neural mechanisms that underlie innate social behaviors.
Rina Tabuchi
Rina Tabuchi is an undergraduate student at Montclair State University in NJ. She majors in Music Therapy and minors in Psychology. She is pursuing a career in neuroscience or medicine to study how music may impact our physical and mental health in the scope of neuroscience. She joined the lab in August 2021 as a research volunteer. She is interested in learning experimental techniques in neuroscience and studying how emotions may play a role in the perception of environmental stimuli, including auditory information, and physiological responses, which result in behavioral changes.
Aishu Gollamudi
Aishu is an undergraduate at NYU pursuing a neural science major. She joined the lab in September 2021 as a research volunteer. She is currently interested in the relationship between certain neural pathways along with cells and behavioral responses.
Ellie Nadelmann
Ellie is an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University and joined the lab in May 2022 as a research volunteer. She is pursuing a major in Neuroscience, and is passionate about its intersection with economics and political science. She is interested in studying the neural circuits associated with social behaviors, specifically aggression and mating.
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Bryanna Vilnaigre
Bryanna is an undergraduate student at NYU studying Neural Science with plans to obtain a doctorate degree. She joined the Lin lab in September 2022 and wishes to learn more about the functional role of neurons in the medial amygdala regarding innate behavior. She also hopes to gain more knowledge of those neurons on a molecular level in order to learn more about the neurochemistry of the brain.
Jordan Gross
Jordan is a senior undergraduate student at NYU pursuing a B.A. in Psychology with minors in Child and Adolescent Mental Studies and Genetics. She joined the lab in September 2022 and is interested in studying behavioral neuroscience, specifically the neural circuitry and genes underlying innate behaviors, like aggression.
Dylan Rhodes
Dylan is an undergraduate student at New York University pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Neural Science with a minor in Music on the Pre-Med Track. He joined Dayu Lin's lab in Fall 2022, where he aims to learn about the neural circuitry behind how sensory phenomena modulates behavioral responses. Moreover, he is interested in studying neurologically/psychiatric-related disease etiologies and how knowledge about behavioral mechanisms can yield potential therapies for depressive, anxious, trauma-related, or other conditions in humans in the near future.