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 Joshua Corbin. She is interested in understanding the developmental and molecular underpinnings of innate behaviors such as mating, aggression and predator avoidance 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 Gollamudihi
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.
Alumni
Gaybchoe Lhamo, Undergraduate Volunteer: 2022, currently an undergraduate at Wesleyan University
Hao Hu, Master's student: 2022, currently a master's student at New York University
Jared Burke, Undergraduate Volunteer: 2021-2022, currently an undergraduate at New York University
Yizhuo (Joey) Ding, Master's student: 2021-2022, currently a lab technician at Boston University
Lynn Shan, Undergraduate Volunteer: 2020-2022, currently an undergraduate at New York University
Chenxi Shi, Undergraduate Volunteer: 2020-2021, currently an undergraduate at Hunter College
Avni Varshneya, Undergraduate Volunteer: 2020-2021, currently an undergraduate at New York University
Xiaoyu Tong, Research Associate: 2019-2021, currently a graduate student at Lehigh University
Dongyu (Doria) Wei, Postdoctoral Fellow: 2018-2021, currently a scientific investigator at GlaxoSmithKline
Dakota(Jiawen) Fan, Undergraduate volunteer: 2019-2020, currently a graduate student at New York University
Zhichao Guo, Visiting Student: 2017-2020, currently a PhD student at Peking University
Ashley Urtecho, Undergraduate Volunteer: 2019-2020, currently an undergraduate at New York University
Govind Shekaran, Undergraduate Volunteer: 2019-2020, New York University, currently a Master's student in the Biomedical Sciences Program at Rutgers University
Amy Kuang, Undergraduate Volunteer: 2017-2020, currently an undergraduate at Stony Brook University
Vivian Chaca, Undergraduate Volunteer: 2018-2020
Maria Helena Grba, Undergraduate Volunteer: 2017-2019, currently a medical student at Midwestern University
Yuxin Tong, Undergraduate Volunteer: 2018-2019
Tianbo Qi, Summer Volunteer: 2018, currently an undergraduate at Tsinghua University
Hao Wu, Summer Volunteer: 2018, currently an undergraduate at Tsinghua University
Alise Hiu Ching Au, Lab Manager: 2016 - 2018, currently working for Opentrons
Annegret Falkner, Postdoctoral Fellow: 2014 - 2018, currently a Principal Investigator at Princeton University
Felipe Yanez, Volunteer: 2018
Yijing Gao, Research Associate 2017-2018, currently a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley - UCSF Joint Bio-Engineering Program
Li Wang, Graduate Student 2018
Yi-Ya Fang, Graduate Student 2018, currently at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Daiana Chen, High School Volunteer: 2017 - 2018
Koichi Hashikawa, Postdoctoral Fellow: 2013-2017, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stuber Lab, University of North Carolina
Hala Aqel, Undergraduate Summer Intern: 2017
Andrew Duffy, Undergraduate Summer Intern: 2017
James Feng, M.D., Medical Student: 2011-2017, currently Resident Physician at New York University School of Medicine
Alexander Sabol, Undergraduate Summer Intern: 2016
Amy Kuang, High School Volunteer: 2015-2017
Kevin Mao, High School Volunteer: 2015-2017
Li Wang, Lab Manager: 2012-2017
Irene Chen, Lab Manager: 2010-2012
Li Chin Wong, Postdoctoral Fellow: 2011-2015, currently a scientist at Merck